AnyConnect Makes Working From Anywhere Even More Secure

By Meghan Frank AnyConnect 4.2 adds deeper visibility and control over endpoints and network access In our mobile, connected world more users are connecting to the corporate network with more devices from more places than ever before. In fact, analysts estimate that this year the average worker will use three personal devices for work purposes – that’s more than 15 billion mobile devices with access to enterprise networks. And the reality is that many of those devices have been compromised; 75 percent of []

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Gaining Productivity and Peace of Mind: Cisco Cloud Access Security

By Raja Balakrishnan Cloud applications are revolutionizing the way your employees can do their work. They enable Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), are inherently mobile, can be up and running in minutes, and allow users to collaborate with anyone from anywhere to get their jobs done. It’s no wonder that cloud app adoption is growing at unprecedented rates. According to Forrester , breakthrough productivity gains are expected to drive the cloud app market to reach over $130 billion by 2020. But along with these benefits, cloud apps []

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Gaining Productivity and Peace of Mind: Cisco Cloud Access Security

By Raja Balakrishnan Cloud applications are revolutionizing the way your employees can do their work. They enable Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD), are inherently mobile, can be up and running in minutes, and allow users to collaborate with anyone from anywhere to get their jobs done. It’s no wonder that cloud app adoption is growing at unprecedented rates. According to Forrester , breakthrough productivity gains are expected to drive the cloud app market to reach over $130 billion by 2020. But along with these benefits, cloud apps []

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2015

By Talos Group Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 12 bulletins addressing 53 vulnerabilities. Four bulletins are rated critical and address vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, Windows Journal, and Windows. The remaining eight bulletins are rated important and address vulnerabilities in .NET, IPsec, Kerberos, Lync/Skype for Business, NDIS, Office, SChannel, and Winsock. Bulletins Rated Critical Microsoft bulletins MS15-112 through MS15-115 are rated []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – November 2015

By Talos Group Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release contains 12 bulletins addressing 53 vulnerabilities. Four bulletins are rated critical and address vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, Windows Journal, and Windows. The remaining eight bulletins are rated important and address vulnerabilities in .NET, IPsec, Kerberos, Lync/Skype for Business, NDIS, Office, SChannel, and Winsock. Bulletins Rated Critical Microsoft bulletins MS15-112 through MS15-115 are rated []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Easy-to-Use Threat Intelligence for Organizations of All Sizes: Threat Awareness Service

By Ilker Temir From credit card numbers to medical records, small and midsize organizations hold the same sensitive information as large enterprises. We often think of multinational corporations and governments as the primary targets for cybersecurity breaches, but smaller companies face the same threats. As enterprises start to spend more on security, hackers are increasingly looking to pick lower-hanging fruit by targeting smaller organizations. In recent years, more than half of known breach victims have been organizations with less than 1,000 employees, and []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Easy-to-Use Threat Intelligence for Organizations of All Sizes: Threat Awareness Service

By Ilker Temir From credit card numbers to medical records, small and midsize organizations hold the same sensitive information as large enterprises. We often think of multinational corporations and governments as the primary targets for cybersecurity breaches, but smaller companies face the same threats. As enterprises start to spend more on security, hackers are increasingly looking to pick lower-hanging fruit by targeting smaller organizations. In recent years, more than half of known breach victims have been organizations with less than 1,000 employees, and []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Pushing Security from Edge to Endpoint

By Joe Malenfant On November 3rd, Cisco announced that we are extending our Security Everywhere strategy with new solutions and services aimed at helping our customers gain greater visibility, context, and control from the cloud to the network to the endpoint. Providing organizations more visibility means being able to see all their systems, not just Windows but Mac, mobile, virtual machines, and now Linux! AMP for Endpoints now has a dedicated Linux connector. Attacks against datacenters are on the rise. Given that these systems contain highly sensitive customer []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Pushing Security from Edge to Endpoint

By Joe Malenfant On November 3rd, Cisco announced that we are extending our Security Everywhere strategy with new solutions and services aimed at helping our customers gain greater visibility, context, and control from the cloud to the network to the endpoint. Providing organizations more visibility means being able to see all their systems, not just Windows but Mac, mobile, virtual machines, and now Linux! AMP for Endpoints now has a dedicated Linux connector. Attacks against datacenters are on the rise. Given that these systems contain highly sensitive customer []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

OpenDNS Introduces IP-Layer Enforcement for Umbrella

By Owen Lystrup Cisco announced on Tuesday that OpenDNS was updating its cloud-delivered network security and threat intelligence solutions, as part of the company’s strategy to provide Security Everywhere across the extended network. Acquired in August, OpenDNS handles nearly 80 billion daily DNS requests and uses its unique view of the Internet to extend security for an increasingly mobile and off-network workforce. Umbrella, OpenDNS’s cloud-delivered network security solution, already provides advanced threat protection for any device, anywhere, anytime. Umbrella encrypts DNS requests from endpoints []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice