By Sean Mason Sean Mason, Director of Cisco Incident Response Services andJeff Bollinger, Investigations Manager, Cisco Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) As security practitioners who continuously look for adversarial malice, one of the questions we are asked frequently is: What’s around the corner? Threat actors evolve over time, so how do we know not only […]
By Edna Conway In our increasingly digital world, technological innovation not only presents new opportunities, but also raises new risks and challenges that must be addressed collaboratively by industry, buyers, users, and policymakers. Specifically, digitization demands that risk be addressed across a dramatically expanding supply chain. These risks include the security threats of manipulation, espionage […]
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By Amanda Rogerson This blog series will highlight exciting new developments and integrations between solutions within the Cisco Security portfolio with our acquisition of Duo Security. These posts will cover details about the problems that are being solved by these integrations with links to helpful technical documentation if you are interested in seeing for yourself […]
By Jeff Reed There are many aspects to securing an endpoint beyond finding the malware on it. What do you know about the behavior of your endpoints? Can you track anomalous traffic? Can you tell what the applications and other software processes are up to? What is happening when the device is off the corporate […]
By John N. Stewart October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and for me, it’s a time to reflect on where we’ve been and how far we’ve come, study the trends and challenges we face today, and look ahead to the next generation of opportunities facing not only the security community, but society at large. In my […]
By Ben Nahorney There was a time when the web was open. Quite literally—communications taking place on the early web were not masked in any significant fashion. This meant that it was fairly trivial for a bad actor to intercept and read the data being transmitted between networked devices. This was especially troublesome when it […]
By Talos Group By Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Introduction Cisco Talos recently observed attackers changing the file formats they use in an attempt to thwart common antivirus engines. This can happen across other file formats, but today, we are showing a change of approach for an actor who has deemed antivirus engines perhaps “too […]
By Talos Group Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Sep. 20 to Sep 27. 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 […]
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