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New Study Shows Correlating Network and Endpoint Data is Highly Manual
We recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey IT security professionals to find out what their desired end state was when it came to correlating security intelligence from network and endpoint. Bringing together these two disparate threat vectors allows organizations to: Increase detectio…
How We Apply Machine Learning in Cisco Advanced Threat Solutions
There is a lot of talk lately about machine learning when it comes to cyber security. It seems like you can’t have a conversation about one without the other. Many of organizations I’ve spoken to in the last couple months are interested in learning more, but often end up more confused after they beg…
4 Key Questions To Determine If Your Endpoint Security Is Up To Snuff
Machine learning. Next-generation antivirus. Artificial intelligence. These are all terms you likely see in your inbox on a daily basis from various endpoint security vendors. Meanwhile, you’re trying to protect your business and don’t have time to assess the 50+ vendors touting the latest tool desi…
Cisco Security Connector: Built for iOS 11
Apple and Cisco have partnered to help businesses in every industry accelerate their mobile transformation. From seamless user experience with collaborative applications to Wi-Fi optimization, the partnership has been grounded in a tangible reality. Apple designed iOS to be simple, intuitive, and po…
Replace your AV with Next Generation Endpoint Security
If you’ve been to a security conference in the last year you’ve probably seen more than 20 different vendors all talking about endpoint security. Some might be talking about next generation anti-virus, endpoint detection and response, and even the much lauded machine learning. How do you cut through…
The light is green! But is it safe to go? Abusing users’ faith in HTTPS
This post was authored by Anna Shirokova and Ivan Nikolaev John Smith had a lot of friends and liked to travel. One day he got an email that read: “Money has been sent to your PayPal account”. The sender appeared to be a person he met from recent trip to Cape Town. John Smith was curious…
Serenity Now! A better way to malware analysis.
Over the last half decade the term sandboxing has become so pervasive, many customers I speak to have forgotten what it’s for! Sandboxing is a type of malware analysis – dynamic malware analysis to be exact. You execute a sample / file in a virtual environment and see what happens. There are numero…
When you need complete privacy: An on-premises private cloud
Do you dream of keeping your data under a lock and key that only you control? Or are you trying to appease regulations, whether corporate or government mandated? Organizations should not fear the auditor more than the attacker. While many have come to adopt the cloud, there are cases where it might…
Detecting Ransomware From The Outside Looking In
Most malware analysis technologies, like sandboxes, put some sort of hook or software inside their analysis environment in order to observe what is actually happening. This could be a specific DLL file, or a debugger. The problem with this approach is that malware authors are aware of it, they look…