Simultaneously secure and save with new 7.0 features and subscription models Organizations rely on Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly FTDv/NGFWv), Cisco’s proven network firewall with IPS, URL filtering, and malware defense that protects virtualized environments in private and public clouds. In addition to the improved IPS performance with Snort 3 and the … [Read more...] about Secure and Save with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual
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SecureX threat response Turnkey Integrations
SecureX turns one year old next month. It has been quite a journey from the first announcement at RSA Conference 2020, when there was one 3rd party integration (VirusTotal), to the release of SecureX the summer of 2020 with a large ecosystem. When SecureX was launched, we had several turnkey partner integrations into SecureX, like the Splunk add-on and QRadar extension. … [Read more...] about SecureX threat response Turnkey Integrations
Cisco Supports Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual on Nutanix AHV
Your network infrastructure stack is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Some people prefer only peanut butter, some only jelly, but most people prefer a little bit of both. In today’s multi-cloud and application environments, most would say they prefer a hybrid cloud infrastructure, the perfect balance of resources in public and private cloud, giving your organization the … [Read more...] about Cisco Supports Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual on Nutanix AHV
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual now supported on Cisco HyperFlex
With today’s multi-cloud and modern application environments, security is more complex than ever before. With the Cisco Secure platform approach, we are helping you take steps to achieve radically simplified security across your organization. Today, we are driving simplified security to your hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), delivering support for Cisco Secure Firewall … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual now supported on Cisco HyperFlex
FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted an employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for illegally removing numerous national security documents and willfully retaining them at her personal residence during a 13-year period from June 2004 to December 2017. The federal indictment charged Kendra Kingsbury, 48, with two counts of having unauthorized possession … [Read more...] about FBI Analyst Charged With Stealing Counterterrorism and Cyber Threat Info
Simplified Security with Purpose-Built Networking for Advanced Threat Detection
Have you ever looked at your switch and wondered what is going on inside there? It hums, at times it buzzes, and it has a few blinky lights, but what is it really doing? Are you able to understand what types of traffic are being sent to and fro? And do you ever wonder if any threats are lurking within? Of course you have; we all know that threats are everywhere and can be … [Read more...] about Simplified Security with Purpose-Built Networking for Advanced Threat Detection
Threat Explainer: Supply Chain Attacks
Let’s say that you’re confident in your security posture. You have endpoint protection in place, firewalls defending the perimeter, and phishing filters on incoming email. You’ve leveraged tools to check for anomalies in your network traffic, rolled out an SSO solution, and implemented processes to securely connect to the network remotely. These defenses make it harder for bad … [Read more...] about Threat Explainer: Supply Chain Attacks
The Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat Modeling
This blog is co-authored by Mohammad Iqbal and is part four of a four-part series about DevSecOps. The trend towards accelerated application development, and regular updates to an architecture through an agile methodology, reduces the efficacy and effectiveness of point-in-time threat modeling. This recognition led us to explore and strategize ways to continuously, and … [Read more...] about The Need for Continuous and Dynamic Threat Modeling
Threat Roundup for March 19 to March 26
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between March 19 and March 26. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically … [Read more...] about Threat Roundup for March 19 to March 26
What are you missing when you don’t enable global threat alerts?
Network telemetry is a reservoir of data that, if tapped, can shed light on users’ behavioral patterns, weak spots in security, potentially malicious tools installed in enterprise environments, and even malware itself. Global threat alerts (formerly Cognitive Threat Analytics known as CTA) is great at taking an enterprise’s network telemetry and running it through a pipeline of … [Read more...] about What are you missing when you don’t enable global threat alerts?