Attackers specifically craft business email compromise (BEC) and phishing emails using a combination of malicious techniques, expertly selected from an ever-evolving bag of tricks. They’ll use these techniques to impersonate a person or business that’s well-known to the targeted recipient and hide their true intentions, while attempting to avoid detection by security … [Read more...] about Secure Email Threat Defense: Providing critical insight into business risk
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Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3
Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall 7.3 Cisco’s latest release of Secure Firewall operating system, Secure Firewall Threat Defence Version 7.3, addresses key concerns for today’s firewall customers. The 7.3 release delivers more features to the three key outcomes: see and detect more threats faster in an increasingly encrypted environment, simplify operations, and lower the … [Read more...] about Introducing Secure Firewall version 7.3
Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering
Organizations embrace the public cloud for the agility, scalability, and reliability it offers when running applications. But just as organizations need these capabilities to ensure their applications operate where needed and as needed, they also require their security does the same. Organizations may introduce multiple individual firewalls into their AWS infrastructure to … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Firewall on AWS: Build resilience at scale with stateful firewall clustering
Cisco Secure Endpoint Crushed the AV-Comparative EPR Test
The word is out! Cisco Secure Endpoint’s effectiveness is off the charts in protecting your enterprise environment. This is not just a baseless opinion; however, the facts are rooted in actual test results from the annual AV-Comparative EPR Test Report published in October 2022. Not only did Secure Endpoint knock it out of the park in enterprise protection; but Cisco Secure … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Endpoint Crushed the AV-Comparative EPR Test
A World of Secure, Resilient Organizations
It’s Partner Summit week and, for me, it’s an important reminder that no one company, not even Cisco, can do it alone. Our partners provide diverse perspectives, expertise, and solutions offerings. Each partner plays a key part in delivering the outcomes and experiences our customers need, want, and expect. So, when we say, “Let’s Own It”, it’s a rally cry for Cisco and our … [Read more...] about A World of Secure, Resilient Organizations
Cisco Secure Workload: Policy-as-Code Is a Win-Win
The last few years have proved to be a catalyst for digital transformation for many of our enterprise customers. Application modernization and adopting multicloud are the foundational building blocks for digitizing business. Customers employ CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) to modernize their applications, building them on a cloud infrastructure. This … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Workload: Policy-as-Code Is a Win-Win
Secure Your Hybrid Workforce Using These SOC Best Practices
Hybrid Workforce is here to stay Just a few years ago when the topic of supporting offsite workers arose, some of the key conversation topics were related to purchase, logistics, deployment, maintenance and similar issues. The discussions back then were more like “special cases” vs. today’s environment where supporting workers offsite (now known as the hybrid workforce) has … [Read more...] about Secure Your Hybrid Workforce Using These SOC Best Practices
Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
Google on Thursday announced that it's seeking contributors to a new open source initiative called Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, also known as GUAC, as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the software supply chain. "GUAC addresses a need created by the burgeoning efforts across the ecosystem to generate software build, security, and dependency metadata," … [Read more...] about Google Launches GUAC Open Source Project to Secure Software Supply Chain
Introducing “NEXT” by Cisco Secure
Inspiring discussions around innovative tech Technology has typically had a reputation for being exciting and inventive. Unfortunately, this hasn’t always been the case for security. But times have changed. We are now recognizing the crucial role security plays in any groundbreaking technology. Without strong defenses, even the most visionary app is likely to crash and burn. … [Read more...] about Introducing “NEXT” by Cisco Secure
Defend your organization from ransomware attacks with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats organizations face today, so it’s no wonder that Cisco Talos Incident Response named it the top threat of the year in 2021. These attacks continue to grow and become more advanced, with ransomware attacks growing by 13% over 2021 and a whopping 79% over 2020 so far this year (see Figure 1 below).1 Stopping ransomware attacks … [Read more...] about Defend your organization from ransomware attacks with Cisco Secure Endpoint