The Case for Next-Gen Intrusion Prevention to Protect Digital Business

By David C. Stuart Today’s digital economy is growing at a phenomenal rate. All modes of commerce from entertainment to finance and retail have moved on-line. You name it; there is an on-line business for it. Not only does selling occur on-line, businesses run their operations online and virtually with cloud-based providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, […]

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Crashing Stacks Without Squishing Bugs: Advanced Vulnerability Analysis

By Talos Group Overview Crash triaging can be a long and complicated process; by using proper tools and having an optimal approach, we can make this a bit easier and less time consuming. In this post we describe a triaging strategy and toolset based on two examples of vulnerability classes: Stack based buffer overflow Heap based buffer overflow […]

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Crashing Stacks Without Squishing Bugs: Advanced Vulnerability Analysis

By Talos Group Overview Crash triaging can be a long and complicated process; by using proper tools and having an optimal approach, we can make this a bit easier and less time consuming. In this post we describe a triaging strategy and toolset based on two examples of vulnerability classes: Stack based buffer overflow Heap based buffer overflow […]

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Cisco Security: To the Tune of the Dark Side of the Moon

By Steve Caimi As the days grow shorter and colder, I’m reminded that November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month here in the US. According to the Department of Homeland Security, this observance “builds awareness and appreciation of the importance of critical infrastructure and reaffirms the nationwide commitment to keep our critical infrastructure and our communities safe […]

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Cisco Security: To the Tune of the Dark Side of the Moon

By Steve Caimi As the days grow shorter and colder, I’m reminded that November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month here in the US. According to the Department of Homeland Security, this observance “builds awareness and appreciation of the importance of critical infrastructure and reaffirms the nationwide commitment to keep our critical infrastructure and our communities safe […]

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Hello Customer, We’ve Got Your Back!

By Elisabeth Zornes According to Chuck Robbins, “At Cisco you, our customers, are our number one priority. We can only be successful if we’ve helped you be successful.” The customer experience has always been a top priority for Cisco. But over the last several quarters, Cisco Security has been hyper-focused on ensuring that our customers achieve consistent and […]

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Hello Customer, We’ve Got Your Back!

By Elisabeth Zornes According to Chuck Robbins, “At Cisco you, our customers, are our number one priority. We can only be successful if we’ve helped you be successful.” The customer experience has always been a top priority for Cisco. But over the last several quarters, Cisco Security has been hyper-focused on ensuring that our customers achieve consistent and […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2016

By Talos Group Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. For a detailed explanation of each of the categories listed below, please go to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/gg309177.aspx. This month’s release is packed full of goodies, but you don’t want to wait to review them over Thanksgiving dinner as there […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2016

By Talos Group Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. For a detailed explanation of each of the categories listed below, please go to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/gg309177.aspx. This month’s release is packed full of goodies, but you don’t want to wait to review them over Thanksgiving dinner as there […]

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Is Your Race to SOC Headed for an Epic Crash?

By Gavin Reid Before You Take Off, Get Up To Speed on These Six Precursors to Incident Response It seems most advice on setting up a Security Operations Center (SOC), or creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT), focuses on people, technology or processes. Unfortunately, such advice may also include doing so at full speed, from the […]

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