Building a Secure Architecture with Cisco SAFE

By Christian Janoff The biggest challenge in securing companies today is complexity. Too many attacks, but also, too many defenses. And, they keep growing. Maddening. But, there is a new security reference that simplifies this Herculean task. Cisco SAFE uses a model and a method to guide you. SAFE uses a model to organize the […]

Building a Secure Architecture with Cisco SAFE

By Christian Janoff The biggest challenge in securing companies today is complexity. Too many attacks, but also, too many defenses. And, they keep growing. Maddening. But, there is a new security reference that simplifies this Herculean task. Cisco SAFE uses a model and a method to guide you. SAFE uses a model to organize the […]

Cisco TrustSec, the “Swiss Army Knife” in your network security toolbox

By Kevin Regan A new approach to segmentation that simply delivers more Network segmentation has been around for quite a while as a way to isolate environments and critical systems to secure data and IT assets. Recent breaches have highlighted the value of segmentation in reducing the attack surface and preventing the lateral movement of […]

Cisco TrustSec, the “Swiss Army Knife” in your network security toolbox

By Kevin Regan A new approach to segmentation that simply delivers more Network segmentation has been around for quite a while as a way to isolate environments and critical systems to secure data and IT assets. Recent breaches have highlighted the value of segmentation in reducing the attack surface and preventing the lateral movement of […]

Detecting DNS Data Exfiltration

By Talos Group The recent discovery of Wekby and Point of Sale malware using DNS requests as a command and control channel highlights the need to consider DNS as a potentially malicious channel. Although a skilled analyst may be able to quickly spot unusual activity because they are familiar with their organisation’s normal DNS activity, […]

Detecting DNS Data Exfiltration

By Talos Group The recent discovery of Wekby and Point of Sale malware using DNS requests as a command and control channel highlights the need to consider DNS as a potentially malicious channel. Although a skilled analyst may be able to quickly spot unusual activity because they are familiar with their organisation’s normal DNS activity, […]

Vulnerability Spotlight: LibreOffice RTF Vulnerability

By Talos Group Vulnerability discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos. Talos is disclosing the presence of CVE-2016-4324 / TALOS-CAN-0126, a Use After Free vulnerability within the RTF parser of LibreOffice. The vulnerability lies in the parsing of documents containing both stylesheet and superscript tokens. A specially crafted RTF document containing both a stylesheet and […]