Much like in sports, preparedness is often the name of the game when it comes to security. That’s why, leading up to this past weekend, the NFL teamed up with Cisco to make sure its Super Bowl LVI network infrastructure was as secure and resilient as possible. Since it’s a live event, 100 percent uptime is imperative for the Super Bowl, ensuring fans don’t miss a moment of the … [Read more...] about NFL Teams Up with Cisco to Secure Super Bowl LVI
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Simplify Security at the Virtual Edge with Cisco Secure Firewall and Network Edge from Equinix
Over the last few years, adoption of hybrid and multicloud environments has grown significantly because of the added benefits they provide organizations — including lower initial costs, simplified management, and time savings. As organizations continue to relocate more of their applications to hybrid and multicloud environments, complexity begins to increase, especially when … [Read more...] about Simplify Security at the Virtual Edge with Cisco Secure Firewall and Network Edge from Equinix
Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Three: Behaviour-Based Detections with Secure Network Analytics
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 are … [Read more...] about Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Three: Behaviour-Based Detections with Secure Network Analytics
Open Banking: Building customer trust through secure experiences
The rise of “Open Banking” has enabled banking customers to choose to share their previously inaccessible, locked down data with all sorts of third parties — from budgeting apps to mobile wallets, to peer to peer payment providers. This revolution has been a welcome boon for banks, customers, and financial services innovators alike. The ability to securely share access and … [Read more...] about Open Banking: Building customer trust through secure experiences
Defending Against Log4j Exploits with Cisco Secure Endpoint
The Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is on the mind of nearly every cybersecurity and IT team right now because of its widespread usage, ease of exploitation, and broad attack surface. This blog provides an overview of how Cisco Secure Endpoint helps protect your environment from attackers exploiting this vulnerability. What You Need to Know About Log4j On Thursday, … [Read more...] about Defending Against Log4j Exploits with Cisco Secure Endpoint
How to Respond to Apache Log4j using Cisco Secure Analytics
IT and Security professionals worldwide are working to assess and mitigate their exposure to Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). The following guide has been put together for current Secure Network Analytics and Secure Cloud Analytics customers, providing suggested ways to leverage your deployment to assist in your detection and response efforts. To learn more about … [Read more...] about How to Respond to Apache Log4j using Cisco Secure Analytics
Securing Multicloud Environments with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense on Alkira Cloud
In today’s security climate, NetOps and SecOps teams are witnessing increased attack surface area as applications and workloads move far beyond the boundaries of their data center. These applications/workloads move to, and reside in, multicloud architecture, adding complexity to connectivity, visibility, and control. In the multicloud world, the SecOps teams use a distributed … [Read more...] about Securing Multicloud Environments with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense on Alkira Cloud
Protecting against Log4j with Secure Firewall & Secure IPS
The Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) has taken the Internet by storm in the past few days. This blog details quick ways Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) and Secure IPS users can protect against attacks leveraging this vulnerability while patching their infrastructure. Talos first released updated Snort rules on Friday, December 10. For customers inspecting … [Read more...] about Protecting against Log4j with Secure Firewall & Secure IPS
Building a Scalable Security Architecture on AWS with Cisco Secure Firewall and AWS Transit Gateway
Comprehensive cloud support is essential when agile and efficient security at scale is required. With Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.1, we have added support for the AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) to drive simple, agile, and efficient security in the cloud. This integration simplifies insertion of Cisco Secure Firewall in AWS with Geneve protocol (RFC 8926) … [Read more...] about Building a Scalable Security Architecture on AWS with Cisco Secure Firewall and AWS Transit Gateway
Cisco Secure Firewall named Best Next Generation Firewall in SE Labs 2021 Annual Report
Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by SE Labs as Best Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) in their 2021 Annual Report. We’re honored to receive industry recognition for excellence in the network firewall market and for making security less complex, more agile, and better able to defend against today’s and tomorrow’s threats. I couldn’t be prouder of our Cisco Secure … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Firewall named Best Next Generation Firewall in SE Labs 2021 Annual Report