Improving Operational Efficiencies and Providing Tighter Integrations with Cisco Security Products The recent CrowdStrike outage illustrated the importance of resilience across our organizations. While that case was specifically related to operating system and application resilience, network resilience is just as critical to today’s business systems. The 2023 Cisco Security … [Read more...] about Secure Network Analytics 7.5.1 Launch
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Leveraging Threat Intelligence in Cisco Secure Network Analytics
Cisco Secure Network Analytics provides pervasive network visibility and security analytics for advanced protection across the extended network and cloud. The purpose of this blog is to review two methods of using threat intelligence in Secure Network Analytics. First, we will cover the threat intelligence feed, and then we will look at using your own internal threat … [Read more...] about Leveraging Threat Intelligence in Cisco Secure Network Analytics
Arizona Department of Homeland Security enhances cybersecurity with Elastic’s AI-driven security analytics
The burgeoning partnership with Elastic has paved the way for a future where AZDOHS can expect to delve even deeper into proactive threat hunting and security automation. The department anticipates utilizing Elastic’s continuing advancements in AI and machine learning, which will bolster its capabilities in preempting cyber threats."Our journey is far from over," Eakin … [Read more...] about Arizona Department of Homeland Security enhances cybersecurity with Elastic’s AI-driven security analytics
Elastic and AWS deliver on AI-driven security analytics
The release and timing of any features or functionality described in this post remain at Elastic's sole discretion. Any features or functionality not currently available may not be delivered on time or at all.In this blog post, we may have used or referred to third party generative AI tools, which are owned and operated by their respective owners. Elastic does not have any … [Read more...] about Elastic and AWS deliver on AI-driven security analytics
Reduce MTTR with Logz.io’s Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability Data Analytics
Observability data provides the insights engineers need to make sense of increasingly complex cloud environments so they can improve the health, performance, and user experience of their systems. These insights can quickly answer business-critical questions like, “what is causing this latency in my front end?” Or, “why is my checkout service returning errors?”Observability is … [Read more...] about Reduce MTTR with Logz.io’s Single-Pane-of-Glass Observability Data Analytics
The importance of runtime fields and schema on write or read for better analytics
In an earlier blog post, Log monitoring and unstructured log data, moving beyond tail -f, we talked about collecting and working with unstructured log data. We learned that it’s very easy to add data to the Elastic Stack. So far the only parsing we did was to extract the timestamp from this data, so older data gets backfilled correctly. We also talked about searching this … [Read more...] about The importance of runtime fields and schema on write or read for better analytics
Kenna.VM Premier: Accelerate Vulnerability Management with Cisco Talos Intel and Remediation Analytics
New level unlocked. The next step for Kenna.VM users who are maturing their risk-based vulnerability management program is Kenna.VM Premier—and it’s live. The Cisco Kenna team is excited to release a new tier of the Kenna Security platform designed specifically for customers or prospects that have reached a point of maturity in which they can and want to do more with their … [Read more...] about Kenna.VM Premier: Accelerate Vulnerability Management with Cisco Talos Intel and Remediation Analytics
CrowdStrike Sponsors New MITRE Cloud Analytics Project
Fourteen key cloud analytics for Azure and GCP cloud environments were identified and mapped as indicative of adversary behavior and serve as a blueprint for understanding and writing new cloud analytics. The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers a powerful combination of agentless capabilities to protect against misconfigurations and control plane attacks, along with … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Sponsors New MITRE Cloud Analytics Project
Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Observability is a hot topic in the IT world these days. It is oftentimes discussed through the lens of the “three pillars of observability”: Logs, Metrics and Traces. Indeed these telemetry signal types help us understand what happened, where it happened and why it happened in our system.Observability ≠ logs + metrics + tracesHowever logs, metrics and traces are, by … [Read more...] about Observability is a Data Analytics Problem
Announcing SOC 2 Compliance for Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, and Cisco SecureX
With a rising number of cyberattacks targeting organizations, protecting sensitive customer information has never been more critical. The stakes are high due to the financial losses, reputational damage, legal & compliance fines, and more that often stem from mishandled data. At Cisco Secure, we recognize this and are continuously looking for ways to improve our information … [Read more...] about Announcing SOC 2 Compliance for Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Secure Malware Analytics, and Cisco SecureX