On May 12, President Biden signed a cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) aimed at improving efforts to “identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these actions and actors”. The order aims to improve federal security practices and threat intelligence sharing amongst federal agencies and the private sector; enhance software supply chain security, and improve federal … [Read more...] about Zero Trust and the Federal Government: Feedback for Progress
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The New Trust Standard – Cisco Blogs
As we ride the biggest digital wave in history, the internet has become fundamental to how society maintains livelihoods, conducts business, and stays connected. With it, come a constant evolution of risk. Phishing, service disruptions, ransomware, and other attacks hijack data, destroy sources of income, steal identities and invade privacy, derail nations, and change the … [Read more...] about The New Trust Standard – Cisco Blogs
Simply Explained: Ransomware, Phishing, Zero Trust
Cybersecurity affects all of us, but the industry uses complicated terms that make it hard to understand. For example, what is ransomware and how does it work? What does phishing mean? Or zero trust? Let’s discuss these cyber concepts in simple, everyday language. And let’s cover what the good guys are doing to make our online lives safer. What’s ransomware? Imagine if you … [Read more...] about Simply Explained: Ransomware, Phishing, Zero Trust
10 Reasons to Trust Your Enterprise APIs
Recently one of the big-three consumer credit bureaus fixed an issue that allowed an ordinary user to obtain the credit score of tens of millions of Americans just by providing their name and mailing address. The connective tissue making this data exposure possible was an Application Programming Interface or API. An API enables two pieces of software to communicate with each … [Read more...] about 10 Reasons to Trust Your Enterprise APIs
Passwordless Protection: The Next Step in Zero Trust
A Zero Trust Approach With the increasing threat landscape and recent workplace shifts to support remote users, many companies are deploying a Zero Trust security model to mitigate, detect, and respond to cyber risks across their environment. Zero Trust principles help protect against identity and access-based security risks by requiring all users, whether inside or outside the … [Read more...] about Passwordless Protection: The Next Step in Zero Trust
Enabling Zero Trust on the Endpoint
Things are changing in the world of endpoint security. Part of this change has to do with how organizations are digitally transforming themselves to accommodate the abrupt shift to remote work in 2020. In March of that year, for instance, Gartner revealed that 88% of business organizations around the world had encouraged their employees to work from home due to the … [Read more...] about Enabling Zero Trust on the Endpoint
A Conversation on Zero Trust for the Modern World
Insights from Cisco VP/GM of Zero Trust and Duo, Ash Devata I recently had a conversation with Cisco’s VP/GM of Zero Trust and Duo, Ash Devata, who knows more than a thing or two about zero trust. Ash joined Cisco in 2018 via Cisco’s acquisition of Duo Security. Duo is the leading provider of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and zero trust for the workforce, … [Read more...] about A Conversation on Zero Trust for the Modern World
Extending Zero Trust Security to Industrial Networks
Recent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical infrastructures have made it clear: operational and IT networks are inseparably linked. With digitization, data needs to seamlessly flow between enterprise IT and industrial OT networks for the business to function. This tighter integration between IT, OT, and Cloud domains has increased the attack surface of both – … [Read more...] about Extending Zero Trust Security to Industrial Networks
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