In the blog, Understanding & Defending Against Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) Attacks, we reviewed the basics of an AiTM attack and how Duo can protect against it. To recap, in an AiTM attack, the attacker sits in between the user and the real web page and steals a user’s valid session cookies. This means that they can bypass traditional authentication controls. Talos, … [Read more...] about Protect Against Adversary-in-the-Middle with Cisco’s User Protection Suite
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Stopping Supply Chain Attacks with Cisco’s User Protection Suite
The Dinner Party Supply Chain Attack A supply chain attack occurs when a bad actor gains access to an organization’s people and data by compromising a vendor or business partner. Let’s think of this type of attack as if it was a dinner party. You invite your close friends over and hire a catering company that you know and trust to cook the meal. However, neither you nor the … [Read more...] about Stopping Supply Chain Attacks with Cisco’s User Protection Suite
Get Ready: Cisco’s Top Security Trends For 2023 That You Need To Know About
We recently had the chance to discuss the top trends prediction for 2023 issued by Gartner and what these may mean for CISOs. The trends are below: Consumer privacy rights will cover 5 billion citizens and more than 70% of global GDP. Most enterprises will adopt a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private application access from a single vendor’s SSE platform. 60% of … [Read more...] about Get Ready: Cisco’s Top Security Trends For 2023 That You Need To Know About
Cisco’s 7 Guiding Principles of Government Data Demands
At Cisco, we empower our customers to control their data. Protecting the privacy, integrity, and confidentiality of data in our possession is of utmost importance. In a world of advancing cyberthreats, expanding extraterritorial legislation, and growing concerns for data localization, we understand technology companies have an outsized responsibility to ensure customers have … [Read more...] about Cisco’s 7 Guiding Principles of Government Data Demands
Cisco’s vision for XDR powered by SecureX
Breaking out of silos Security teams face an expanding threat landscape and an environment that is rife with complexity—making security efficacy increasingly elusive. The theory behind simplification is simple in theory but can often be difficult to achieve. Security teams need to be able to turn weak signals into reliable alerts and act on them with confidence. This confidence … [Read more...] about Cisco’s vision for XDR powered by SecureX
Recapping RSAC 2021: Cisco’s Keynote, Zero Trust Deployment & Passwordless Authentication
It was a packed virtual RSA Conference this year. Although I missed being in San Francisco’s Moscone center, visiting booths and chatting with industry peers, the virtual experience did have one key benefit in my opinion – the on-demand replays of the sessions. I was able to watch all the sessions that I wanted to without having to rush across the floors of the Moscone … [Read more...] about Recapping RSAC 2021: Cisco’s Keynote, Zero Trust Deployment & Passwordless Authentication
Implementing Zero Trust for the Workforce: Cisco’s Story
“It’s not often that you can say you are improving security while also improving the user experience, but that’s what we have achieved with this rollout.” – Josephina Fernandez, Director of Security Architecture & Research at Cisco The network edge has left the building. Long before 2020 happened, we were working from coffee shops, airports and client sites. We have been … [Read more...] about Implementing Zero Trust for the Workforce: Cisco’s Story
Cisco’s Vision for SASE and a Brand New Offer to Kickstart Your Journey
This blog was written in collaboration with James Mobley There’s a growing challenge that many organizations face today: How can network and security teams provide consistent, secure access to applications for an increasingly distributed workforce — without taking on more complexity? This drives the need to rethink the traditional network architecture, and the concept of a … [Read more...] about Cisco’s Vision for SASE and a Brand New Offer to Kickstart Your Journey
Introducing: Cisco’s Innovated Transparency Report
As our customers’ businesses evolve in complexity and scale, we are hyperaware of our responsibility as a data steward to protect the privacy and trusted relationships that drive our business forward. For many years, Cisco has published* the number of demands for customer data that we receive from law enforcement and governments around the world. In an age of … [Read more...] about Introducing: Cisco’s Innovated Transparency Report