Cognitive Bias in Incident Response

By Gavin Reid This blog is a co-authored by Jeff Bollinger & Gavin Reid Are You Too Confident in Your Incident Response? When Charles Darwin stated “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge,” civilization’s evolution from Industrial Age to Information Age was nearly a century away. Yet, when it comes to many aspects of IT, he nailed […]

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Keeping the “House” in Order: A Look Inside Cisco’s Data Protection Program

By Michelle Fleury When I think of data protection, I think of it like the protection of our homes: We know burglars may be out there “watching” us where we live, picking up on our daily patterns and scouring our home’s exterior to find the easiest way “in.” Acknowledging this, we buy door and window locks, alarm systems […]

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Keeping the “House” in Order: A Look Inside Cisco’s Data Protection Program

By Michelle Fleury When I think of data protection, I think of it like the protection of our homes: We know burglars may be out there “watching” us where we live, picking up on our daily patterns and scouring our home’s exterior to find the easiest way “in.” Acknowledging this, we buy door and window locks, alarm systems […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Oracle’s Outside In Technology, Turned Inside-Out

By Talos Group Vulnerabilities discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic. Blog post authored by Jaeson Schultz and Aleksandar Nikolic. One of the most fundamental tasks performed by many software programs involves the reading, writing, and general processing of files. In today’s highly networked environments, files and the programs that process them can be found just about everywhere: FTP transfers, HTTP […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Oracle’s Outside In Technology, Turned Inside-Out

By Talos Group Vulnerabilities discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic. Blog post authored by Jaeson Schultz and Aleksandar Nikolic. One of the most fundamental tasks performed by many software programs involves the reading, writing, and general processing of files. In today’s highly networked environments, files and the programs that process them can be found just about everywhere: FTP transfers, HTTP […]

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How Cybersecurity is Enabling – not Defeating – Business Innovation

By Steve Martino The Digital Economy is rapidly changing our world – seemingly as quickly as you can read this sentence there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet (Forecast by 2020: Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group). The Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, cloud, business intelligence and social media continue to generate unprecedented amounts of global […]

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How Cybersecurity is Enabling – not Defeating – Business Innovation

By Steve Martino The Digital Economy is rapidly changing our world – seemingly as quickly as you can read this sentence there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet (Forecast by 2020: Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group). The Internet of Things (IoT), mobility, cloud, business intelligence and social media continue to generate unprecedented amounts of global […]

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Research Innovations in Simple Usable Security

By Mary Ellen Zurko Every year the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy, to present and discuss the latest research in the areas of usable security and privacy. Cisco’s sponsorship of SOUPS supports student research and mentorship in this area (see below), as […]

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Research Innovations in Simple Usable Security

By Mary Ellen Zurko Every year the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy, to present and discuss the latest research in the areas of usable security and privacy. Cisco’s sponsorship of SOUPS supports student research and mentorship in this area (see below), as […]

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Vulnerability Spotlight: Apple Remote Code Execution With Image Files

By Talos Group Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is disclosing the presence of five […]

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