Cisco and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Benefit from a Fresh and Innovative Approach to Cybersecurity

By Steve Caimi Picture in your mind a typical US federal agency. Go ahead, close your eyes and imagine it. Seriously, do it. As you think about that agency, pick the first two adjectives that came to mind. Did they happen to be fresh and innovative? If not, then maybe you should take a look at today’s National […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October 2016

By Talos Group Patch Tuesday has once again arrived! Microsoft’s monthly release of security bulletins to address vulnerabilities provides fixes for 37 newly disclosed security flaws. Today’s release sees a total of 10 bulletins with five of the bulletins rated critical, addressing vulnerabilities in Edge, Graphics Component, Internet Explorer, Video Control, and Adobe Flash Player. Four bulletins are […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – October 2016

By Talos Group Patch Tuesday has once again arrived! Microsoft’s monthly release of security bulletins to address vulnerabilities provides fixes for 37 newly disclosed security flaws. Today’s release sees a total of 10 bulletins with five of the bulletins rated critical, addressing vulnerabilities in Edge, Graphics Component, Internet Explorer, Video Control, and Adobe Flash Player. Four bulletins are […]

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Cybersecurity Awareness Begins – and Ends – with Employees

By Steve Martino This month advocates worldwide continue to shine the light on cybersecurity. In the U.S. this week’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month theme is “From the Break Room to the Boardroom: Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity in the Workplace.” We at Cisco firmly believe that people are a core component of an organization’s protection efforts, and […]

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Cybersecurity Awareness Begins – and Ends – with Employees

By Steve Martino This month advocates worldwide continue to shine the light on cybersecurity. In the U.S. this week’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month theme is “From the Break Room to the Boardroom: Creating a Culture of Cybersecurity in the Workplace.” We at Cisco firmly believe that people are a core component of an organization’s protection efforts, and […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Phishing for Threat Intelligence: Using Your Spam Quarantine for the Greater Good

By Erik Iker Effectively protecting your assets increasingly involves effective threat intelligence to better understand the types of attackers targeting your sector, and what your vulnerabilities are. Lack of any threat intelligence at all, or even the foresight to use Google and Twitter to spot fake scams trending in top results can result in a company being one […]

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Phishing for Threat Intelligence: Using Your Spam Quarantine for the Greater Good

By Erik Iker Effectively protecting your assets increasingly involves effective threat intelligence to better understand the types of attackers targeting your sector, and what your vulnerabilities are. Lack of any threat intelligence at all, or even the foresight to use Google and Twitter to spot fake scams trending in top results can result in a company being one […]

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

ETSI/IQC’s 4th Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography

By Panos Kampanakis Quantum computers could break commonly used public key algorithms, which would affect cryptography used today. For that reason, there has been great attention on quantum safe crypto recently. We have blogged about it in numerous occasions [1], [2] , [3]. In that context, last week the 4th ETSI/IQC on Quantum-Safe Cryptography in Toronto, Canada brought […]

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ETSI/IQC’s 4th Workshop on Quantum-Safe Cryptography

By Panos Kampanakis Quantum computers could break commonly used public key algorithms, which would affect cryptography used today. For that reason, there has been great attention on quantum safe crypto recently. We have blogged about it in numerous occasions [1], [2] , [3]. In that context, last week the 4th ETSI/IQC on Quantum-Safe Cryptography in Toronto, Canada brought […]

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Simpler NGFW management – let’s you get home in time for dinner

By Jason Lamar “Call me anything you want, but just don’t call me late for dinner.” I wonder how many of us are familiar with this old quote. Security management often burdens teams to put in extra cycles to get the most appropriate access and security policies in place. The process too often isn’t simple and – guess […]

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