Security

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…

Last fall, close to a one hundred Cisco women across the globe participated in the CyberStart Challenge.  Cisco is the first public company to test the platform, which involves solving a series of cybersecurity challenges with increasing levels of complexity.  There are three verticals, called “Base…

We all know the stats. The security workforce shortage is impacting two-thirds of organizations, while the gap — currently at 4 million — continues to grow. Security teams are short-staffed, to the point where a 25% say the inability to keep up with the workload is a root cause of security incidents…

While organizations would ideally like to do everything they can to block a cybersecurity attack, the reality is that internal and external threats targeting your network can find a way to infiltrate and cause a major breach. So how can you answer questions like – Have we been compromised? What did…

Helping employees, customers and partners in a time of need is one of Cisco’s core values. Right now, COVID-19 is forcing many people around the world to work remotely. This is putting a sudden strain on both IT and security teams who are being tasked with providing support for an unprecedented numb…

For the fourth time in the last five years, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) was recognized as the top solution in the Trust Awards category for Best NAC Solution at the 2020 SC Awards. The announcement was made on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 during the 24th annual SC Awards gala in San Francisco…

Cisco’s recently released their 2020 CISO Benchmark Report that makes several key recommendations for security professionals to achieve a zero trust vision. The following are a couple of recommendations that are relevant to the discussion in this blog regarding device trust: More than half (52%) of…

One of the key challenge’s businesses face is how to provide a secure infrastructure for applications without compromising agility.  With the rise of cloud usage, containers, and microservices, many companies choose microsegmentation as the means to protect critical applications from compromise.  Ch…

Security Reimagined — Solving an Old Problem with a New Approach A decade ago this January, Steve Jobs challenged the conventional wisdom about tablets, unveiling the iPad with the words, “What this device has done is extraordinary.” Coming on the heels of iPhone’s smashing success three years earli…