The Value of Collaboration in Weakening Attackers

By Craig Williams Today’s attackers deploy complex and clever threats that are difficult to combat with just one method of defense. In some cases, defenders must go beyond tools for detecting attacks and devise a different approach for obstructing our adversaries‘ ability to operate.
As detailed in the Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

The Value of Collaboration in Weakening Attackers

By Craig Williams Today’s attackers deploy complex and clever threats that are difficult to combat with just one method of defense. In some cases, defenders must go beyond tools for detecting attacks and devise a different approach for obstructing our adversaries‘ ability to operate.
As detailed in the Cisco 2016 Annual Security Report

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Forewarned Is Forearmed: Announcing the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report

By John Stewart Our just-released 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report (ASR) presents a challenging cybersecurity landscape: cyber defense teams are fighting to keep up with rapid global digitization while trying to integrate dozens of vendor solutions, speed up detection, and educate their organizations from top to bottom. Meanwhile attackers grow more bold, flexible, and resilient by the day, setting up professional infrastructures that look a lot like what we’d find in legitimate businesses. On the global front, we see fluctuations in cyber Internet governance across regions, which []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Forewarned Is Forearmed: Announcing the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report

By John Stewart Our just-released 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report (ASR) presents a challenging cybersecurity landscape: cyber defense teams are fighting to keep up with rapid global digitization while trying to integrate dozens of vendor solutions, speed up detection, and educate their organizations from top to bottom. Meanwhile attackers grow more bold, flexible, and resilient by the day, setting up professional infrastructures that look a lot like what we’d find in legitimate businesses. On the global front, we see fluctuations in cyber Internet governance across regions, which []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Research Spotlight: Needles in a Haystack

By Talos Group This post was authored by Mariano Graziano . Malware sandboxes are automated dynamic analysis systems that execute programs in a controlled environment. Within the large volumes of samples submitted daily to these services, some submissions appear to be different from others and show interesting characteristics. At USENIX Security 2015 I presented a paper in which we proposed a method to automatically discover malware developments from samples submitted to online dynamic analysis systems. The research was conducted by dissecting the Anubis sandbox dataset which consisted of over 30M []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Research Spotlight: Needles in a Haystack

By Talos Group This post was authored by Mariano Graziano . Malware sandboxes are automated dynamic analysis systems that execute programs in a controlled environment. Within the large volumes of samples submitted daily to these services, some submissions appear to be different from others and show interesting characteristics. At USENIX Security 2015 I presented a paper in which we proposed a method to automatically discover malware developments from samples submitted to online dynamic analysis systems. The research was conducted by dissecting the Anubis sandbox dataset which consisted of over 30M []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Fortinet Recognizes Top 2015 Partners and Distributors at Global Partner Conference

Fortinet Recognizes Top 2015 Partners and Distributors at Global Partner Conference

Source:: Fortinet

Fortinet Recognizes Top 2015 Partners and Distributors at Global Partner Conference

Fortinet Recognizes Top 2015 Partners and Distributors at Global Partner Conference

Source:: Fortinet

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2016

By Talos Group The first Patch Tuesday of 2016 has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release is relatively light with nine bulletins addressing 25 vulnerabilities. Six bulletins are rated critical and address vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, JScript/VBScript, Office, Silverlight, and Windows. The remaining three bulletins are rated important and address vulnerabilities in Exchange and several parts of Windows. Bulletins Rated Critical Microsoft bulletins MS16-001 through MS16-0006 []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – January 2016

By Talos Group The first Patch Tuesday of 2016 has arrived. Today, Microsoft has released their monthly set of security bulletins designed to address security vulnerabilities within their products. This month’s release is relatively light with nine bulletins addressing 25 vulnerabilities. Six bulletins are rated critical and address vulnerabilities in Edge, Internet Explorer, JScript/VBScript, Office, Silverlight, and Windows. The remaining three bulletins are rated important and address vulnerabilities in Exchange and several parts of Windows. Bulletins Rated Critical Microsoft bulletins MS16-001 through MS16-0006 []

Source:: Cisco Security Notice