Vinny Parla
Principal Architect
Office of the Security CTO
Articles
Using CESA to Solve Endpoint Blindness for a World Class InfoSec Team
Cisco has an amazing set of products like AMP for Endpoints and Cisco Umbrella protecting devices from advanced malware threats. There were other user and endpoint scenarios that remained unsolved until we introduced the new Cisco Endpoint Security Analytics (CESA) solution that was recently announ…
New Cisco AnyConnect Network Visibility Module App for Splunk
Users on the network are an important layer of an organization’s security strategy – and a particularly vulnerable one. In fact, a recent IBM cybersecurity report found that human error was a contributing factor in 95% of all security incidents! It is critical to know what users are doing on the net…
An introduction to the new Cisco Network Visibility Flow Protocol (nvzFlow)
As recently announced, Cisco AnyConnect 4.2 extends visibility to the endpoint with the Network Visibility Module (NVM). Users are one of the most vulnerable parts of any security strategy, with 78% of organizations saying in a recent survey that a malicious or negligent employee had been the cause…
MS Detours: Ongoing vigilance keeps customers on the right track.
Detours is a library offered by Microsoft Research for interception of functions on x86 and x64 platforms. It is sold for commercial use to various vendors that build products ranging from security to gaming applications. Detours is often injected into most or all of the processes, either system-wid…
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