Google on Thursday announced the creation of a new "Open Source Maintenance Crew" to focus on bolstering the security of critical open source projects. Additionally, the tech giant pointed out Open Source Insights as a tool for analyzing packages and their dependency graphs, using it to determine "whether a vulnerability in a dependency might affect your code." "With this … [Read more...] about Google Created ‘Open-Source Maintenance Crew’ to Help Secure Critical Projects
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Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
The Public Cloud and Security Responsibility Across many businesses, leveraging services offered and hosted by public cloud providers such as AWS proves to be extremely advantageous for both improving operational efficiencies, cost savings, scaling, and for security. For AWS customers, Lambda functions are a great example of this advantage in providing a useful way to execute … [Read more...] about Detecting Targeted Attacks on Public Cloud Services with Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
Announcing Risk-Based Endpoint Security with Cisco Secure Endpoint and Kenna Security
With a tidal wave of vulnerabilities out there and brand-new vulnerabilities coming out daily, security teams have a lot to handle. Addressing every single vulnerability is nearly impossible and prioritizing them is no easy task either since it’s difficult to effectively focus on the small number of vulnerabilities that matter most to your organization. Moreover, the shift to … [Read more...] about Announcing Risk-Based Endpoint Security with Cisco Secure Endpoint and Kenna Security
Secure your Endpoints and Turbocharge your Security Operations with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Keeping up with the ever-changing threat landscape is hard, with new attacks such as ransomware, fileless malware, and other advanced threats emerging every day. Protecting your endpoints becomes even more difficult when your security environment consists of multiple, disparate solutions, making it too complex to effectively manage. Protecting your endpoints can also seem … [Read more...] about Secure your Endpoints and Turbocharge your Security Operations with Cisco Secure Endpoint
The Wait is Over for Secure Firewall 3100 Series
“I so look forward to the next firewall hardware upgrade cycle!” – No One Ever Always Give More If I learned one thing from my firewall customers over the many years, it would be that they like to upgrade their hardware appliances as much as an average consumer likes to shop for a new car. No amount of flashy vendor marketing materials with the obligatory “industry-first” … [Read more...] about The Wait is Over for Secure Firewall 3100 Series
Cisco Secure Endpoint Strikes Balance for School IT Teams
Education networks are a student data hub – everything from school records, social security numbers, to health records is available. Unfortunately, this data is a natural target for threat actors seeking to land and expand prized PII for their own goals. To ensure data protection, Education IT and security operation teams need to guard against ransomware and other threats. … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Endpoint Strikes Balance for School IT Teams
Cisco Secure Endpoint goes Pro
Cyberattacks hit organizations every day. Attackers continue to develop new tactics that evade front line defenses. Ransomware is also proliferating, with the number of successful, and expensive, ransomware attacks increasing year over year. And as hybrid work becomes the new normal, knowledge workers and their endpoints are increasingly exposed to threats beyond the reach of … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Endpoint goes Pro
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management with Cisco Secure Cloud Insights: Beyond CSPM
In today’s digital-first world having enterprise grade information, services, and workloads in the cloud is becoming increasingly important for success. Nonetheless the lack of asset visibility that haunted private networks has not disappeared in the cloud era; it has been transferred, or some may say even aggravated. In its Hype Cycle for Security Operations, Gartner has … [Read more...] about Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management with Cisco Secure Cloud Insights: Beyond CSPM
Network Security Automation using Cisco Secure Firewall and Hashicorp’s Consul
More and more organizations today are moving towards dynamic infrastructure deployments in cloud environments or using microservices. In such environments, instances and services are created and decommissioned as per need and that can be very frequent. Keeping track of updates to such components in a fast-changing environment is becoming a challenge for SecOps teams and an … [Read more...] about Network Security Automation using Cisco Secure Firewall and Hashicorp’s Consul
Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Four: Secure Cloud Analytics Detections
In part one of this Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX series, we introduced the notion of risk-based extended detection with Cisco SecureX – the idea that a user can prioritise detections into incidents based on their idea of what constitutes risk in their environments and then extend those detections with enrichments from other products. In subsequent posts we’ve … [Read more...] about Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Four: Secure Cloud Analytics Detections