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By Dr. Gee Rittenhouse The market consideration and adoption of software-defined WAN represents the largest WAN transformation in recent history. Organizations are turning to SD-WAN to improve connectivity, reduce costs, and simplify management at their branch locations. In fact, a recent research study from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) found that 4 out of 5 organizations report using SD-WAN in some capacity already. Instead of backhauling all traffic through the corporate network, the research also indicated that 79 percent of organizations are shifting to direct internet access (DIA) for all or some remote and branch offices.* With DIA, enterprises can accelerate their digital transformation with faster access to cloud applications and workloads. While the benefits are clear, this also introduces new security challenges.
The shift to SD-WAN creates new security challenges
Security has to be top of mind as you transform your network with SD-WAN and move to DIA. Branch offices and roaming users are more vulnerable to attacks, and attackers quickly exploit weaknesses. Based on the ESG research, 68 percent of branch offices and roaming users were the source of compromise in recent attacks. And as organizations move to more DIA, this becomes an even greater risk. Scaling security at every location often means more appliances to ship and manage, more policies to separately maintain, which translates into more money and resources needed.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. SD-WAN makes your networking simple and that’s the way that your security should be, too. You need security that can effectively scale across all locations, provide simple management, and enable you to easily add security services as needed.
Extend protection from the network to branch offices to roaming users with powerful cloud security
At Cisco, we want to make sure you have choices with your preferred security solution. Last November, we announced that we built a set of security capabilities into our SD-WAN devices to provide a complete on-prem solution. Now, we are delivering additional feature functionality to Umbrella, our market leading security cloud platform, to deliver a complete secure internet gateway (SIG) so you can secure your SD-WAN from the cloud. When it comes to protecting your SD-WAN, Cisco provides the flexibility you need whether on-prem, in the cloud, or both. Regardless of your deployment choice, we have you covered.
Built on top of the fastest and most reliable infrastructure, Umbrella provides simple deployment and management. In a single cloud platform, it unifies multiple layers of security—including DNS, secure web gateway, firewall, and cloud access security (CASB). It also acts as your secure onramp to the internet by offering secure internet access and controlled SaaS usage across all locations and roaming users. And we continue to deeply integrate Umbrella with Cisco SD-WAN to deliver ease of use that is unmatched across the industry.

As a leader in both networking and security, only Cisco can deliver a truly secure experience. We’re committed to offering security that is integrated into our network solutions, with simple configuration and unified policies that can be easily enforced across your entire enterprise, in every location, and anywhere users travel. As demonstrated by our expanding capabilities, we continue to make huge investments in our R&D to rapidly make our cloud security even stronger.
As you make the transition to SD-WAN and DIA, you can trust Cisco to bring together the best in SD-WAN with the most effective, most reliable, and simplest cloud security to protect it. This is just the start of the journey!
If you’re ready to learn more, visit umbrella.cisco.com/sd-wan. And if you are attending Cisco Live U.S., stop by the Umbrella booth in the World of Solutions to get a demo.

*ESG Research Survey, Cisco Secure Internet Gateway Survey, January 2019

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Source:: Innovaphone

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By Jolene Tam Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of security alerts and potential threats hitting your SOC? Security risks have never been greater, with networks expanding into the cloud, the explosion of mobile and IoT devices, and increasingly sophisticated threats. On top of that, disparate security tools make it tougher to find and remediate threats, especially when you’re under attack and time matters most.
So how can you stay ahead of threats? Enter Cisco Threat Response, a tool that was created to help SOC analysts simplify and speed threat detection, investigation, and remediation from a single interface.
This week at Cisco Live, we’re excited to share continued innovations from Threat Response designed to make your life even easier.
1. Introducing our integration with Cisco Firepower NGFW
You may know that Threat Response is already integrated across multiple Cisco Security products – AMP for Endpoints, Threat Grid, Umbrella, and Email Security. In the coming weeks, you will be able to analyze and triage high priority IPS alerts in Threat Response and enrich these IPS events alongside data from other integrated products. This means streamlined threat investigations with a fuller picture of the impact across your network, all from a single console.
Join us at Cisco Live to get a preview of this exciting integration. You can see a live NGFW with Threat Response integrated demo at the Cisco Security booth in the World of Solutions. In the meantime, check out this new episode of ThreatWise TV that showcases how Firepower events are integrated into Threat Response.
2. Learn how to enhance your existing SIEM and SOAR tools with open APIs
Threat Response isn’t trying to replace the SIEM or SOAR you’ve already got; rather you can leverage our open APIs for 3rd-party integrations to complement your existing security stack. Script up your own integrations to automate data enrichment and response actions across multiple security products, all in a single interface for a seamless workflow.
At Cisco Live, get your learn on and get hands-on in the DevNet Zone:
DEVNET-2505– Automate your threat hunting workflow with Cisco Threat Response APIs – Presented by Christopher Van Der Made.
DEVWKS-2639– Security Research and Response Workflows with APIs – Workshop with Neil Patel.
3. Use our browser plug-ins to access threat intel and kick off investigations now
Still haven’t leveraged our APIs or you’re using non-Cisco security products? Don’t worry, you can still use Cisco Threat Response thanks to our browser plug-ins for Chrome and Firefox. In seconds, you’ll be able to pull threat intelligence to get verdicts on observables and start investigations.
You can see the Threat Response browser plug-in in action in demos and breakout sessions at Cisco Live. We’ll show you how you can pull threat data from sources like Talos and take actions without native integrations.
Demos across the Cisco Security booth in World of Solutions.
BRKSEC-2433– Threat hunting and incident response with Cisco Threat Response – Breakout session with Ben Greenbaum.
Additionally, you can check out Threat Response elsewhere on the ground in San Diego:
More integrated demos at the Cisco Security booth in World of Solutions
AMP for Endpoints
Email Security
Umbrella theater sessions: Umbrella Investigate, Umbrella and AMP for Endpoints
Hands-on Labs
LABSEC-1012– Threat intelligence, security investigation, incident response with Cisco Threat Response – Sunil Kumar and Vivek Singh
LTRSEC-2200– You Got Hacked! Here is What to Do (AMP4E, TG, Splunk, CTR, CTA)
– Karel Simek, Michal Svoboda, Ben Greenbaum
Roadmap
CCP-1302– Roadmap: Endpoint Security – Cisco Customer Connection Program session with Snehal Patel (CCP membership required – it’s free to join, sign up here)
Come see why there’s so much buzz around Threat Response at Cisco Live this week. Holler at me on Twitter @jolenetam if you’ll be around! Until then, learn more at http://cisco.com/go/ctr.

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Source:: Innovaphone