The Firewall: The foundation for a robust Security Platform
By Brian Remmel After many years of a strong preference for ‘best of breed‘ security tools, the tides are turning. There’s growing fatigue of the operational downsides – managing countless alerts and manually correlating threats, for example – inherent in this approach. Security products today need to include out-of-box integrations, interoperate with third–party solutions, share […]
5 Questions to Ask Your Security Platform Vendor
By Sana Yousuf CISO are always on the hunt for innovative solutions to solve their most pressing problems. They have been forced to choose their own adventure from an industry that’s rife with incompatibility, running their operations across dozens of tools and a plethora of consoles that don’t talk to each other. And this, combined […]
Threat Roundup for April 3 to April 10
By Talos Group Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Apr 3 and Apr 10. 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 […]
Promising Results for Post-Quantum Certificates in TLS 1.3
By Panos Kampanakis The Challenge Quantum Computers could threaten the security of TLS key exchange and authentication. To assess the performance of post-quantum certificates TLS 1.3, we evaluated NIST Round 2 signature algorithms and concluded that two of them offer acceptable speeds. We also analyzed other implications of post-quantum certs in TLS. More details in […]
Threats Can Be Anywhere: Modernize Your Data Center Security
By Vibhuti Garg Did you know? IT organization spend 76% of their attention on securing their data center Virtualization, cloud, and software-defined networking are redefining the modern data center. There is a huge influx of data, from big data analytics and new types of applications. Workloads are even more dynamic than before, spanning across multiple […]
Security Stories Episode 2: Democratizing Security with Wendy Nather
By Hazel Burton If anyone feels like they are in need of a shot of wisdom and good humor, please allow me to present the latest episode of Cisco’s Security Stories podcast as a viable contender. Wendy Nather, Head of Advisory CISOs, Cisco DuoIn this episode, I chat to the incredible Wendy Nather. Wendy will […]
How to Strengthen Your Security in 2020
By Angela Frechette Cannon Which technologies will help you the most? As part of the recent RSA Conference, we all got to see – either in-person or virtually – the latest and greatest technology coming out of the security industry. While events like this can certainly be helpful in guiding future investments, they can also […]