Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud and Google Cloud continue partnership to secure customers
By Megha Mehta There’s no doubt that cloud adoption has led to accelerated business outcomes. The flexibility of compute and ease of deployment is empowering for developers. But developing applications in the cloud has challenged security teams who are attempting to ensure the same protections in the cloud as on-premises, without slowing down development. Ultimately, […]
Driving Efficiency and Productivity with Cisco Defense Orchestrator
By Don Meyer Network security professionals today clearly understand that there is no longer just one perimeter surrounding the enterprise. Rather, security and network management now extend across multiple, overlapping perimeters, each of which usually has its own firewall and related network equipment. For security teams and network admins, this translates into the need to […]
Threat Roundup for November 29 to December 6
By Talos Group Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Nov 29 and Dec 6. 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 […]
The Advantages of Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)
By Don Meyer Network managers and security teams are facing a double-edged challenge: networks are growing far more complex and expanding across multiple perimeters just as threat vectors become increasingly difficult to detect and threats grow more sophisticated. The Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) offers a solution. According to Cisco ASA reviews and Cisco Firepower NGFW reviews […]
Fighting Cybercrime and Creating Jobs for Latin America
By Jordi Botifoll The digitization of the world has come a long way since 2016, when I wrote about how Cisco offers cybersecurity scholarships to increase the number of skilled cybersecurity specialists. And today, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Our increasingly digital world is more and more vulnerable to cyberattacks. According to an article […]
Configuring Cisco Security with Amazon VPC Ingress Routing
By Anubhav Swami Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new capability in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking that is designed to make it easier and more efficient for Cisco Security customers to deploy advanced security controls in the cloud. This new capability is called Amazon VPC Ingress Routing. It allows users to specify routes […]
A New Day for Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience
By Edna Conway It’s a new Day for National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. While November is recognized as the month focused on this issue in the U.S., for some time, digital transformation has widened the aperture of our lens dramatically. This year, led by the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Critical Infrastructure and […]