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SaaS-delivered Encrypted Traffic Analytics with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
We’ve reached an interesting turning point for encrypted traffic. Gartner predicted that 80% of web traffic would be encrypted by 2019. Sure enough, this prediction came true. Last year, the team at Let’s Encrypt, an organization that helps enable encryption for websites, cited that 80% of web traff…
Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics: Necessity Driving Ubiquity
In June 2017, Cisco announced the Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) solution – a breakthrough technology stack that allows us to gain insight into encrypted traffic without decryption. That insight provides an unprecedented view into the use of encryption across your entire network and allows us to…
Security Analytics and Logging: Supercharging FirePower with Stealthwatch
When we consider network threat detection, most of us immediately think of signature and rule-based intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs). However, it is a little discussed fact that the very first intrusion detection systems, built back in the ‘80s, were actually based on anomaly detec…