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Step Up to a New Standard in Threat Defense
The 135 Spanish Steps are perhaps one of the most popular tourist attractions in Rome—and this in a city where your alternatives include stunning options like visiting the Vatican, the Colosseum or the Trevi Fountain. And yet, a visitor to the Spanish Steps today is first—and ahead of any chance to…
Why a Next-Generation Firewall Must Be Threat-Centric
In an earlier blog, we discussed the importance of a visibility-driven approach to Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) and the need for capabilities that offer full visibility and contextual awareness into everything on networks since we know you can’t protect what you can’t see. In additi…
T-7 Days to Improved Cisco IOS Security
The Cisco IOS Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication will go live in seven days and this time we will have an important update to the Cisco IOS Software Checker to go along with it. As a reminder, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) releases bundles of Cisco IOS Softwar…
Help! My IP Address Has Been Hijacked!
SpamCop is a free, community-based spam email reporting service provided by Cisco. SpamCop analyzes reported spam, and extracts details about the sending IP, the URLs contained in the spam, and the networks over which the spam message has transited. This information is used to create the SpamCop Blo…
A Visibility-Driven Approach to Next-Generation Firewalls
Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services has redefined the next-generation firewall (NGFW) as an adaptive, threat-focused platform, delivering superior, multi-layered protection, unparalleled visibility, and reduced security costs and complexity. This innovative new solution addresses three strategic imper…
Introducing the Industry’s First Threat-Focused Next-Generation Firewall
Cisco is a strong proponent for shifting the mindset regarding the capabilities a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) must provide to stay relevant in a world that is dealing with dynamic threats. While nothing is technically wrong with legacy NGFWs, much is wrong with their approach. To meet current an…
Threat Spotlight: “Kyle and Stan” Malvertising Network Threatens Windows and Mac Users With Mutating Malware
This post was authored by Shaun Hurley, David McDaniel and Armin Pelkmann. Update 2014-09-22: Updates on this threat can be found here Have you visited amazon.com, ads.yahoo.com, www.winrar.com, youtube.com, or any of the 74 domains listed below lately? If the answer is yes, then you may have been a…
Danger at the Retail Point of Sale
This blog post was authored by Martin Lee and Jaeson Schultz. With the announcement that yet another major retailer has allegedly been breached, it is important to review how attackers compromise retail systems and how such intrusions can be prevented. In this latest case, retailers are working to d…
Securing Mobile Data in the Event of Device Loss or Theft
As a business or technical leader, you know you need to protect your company in a rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem. However, threats are not always obvious. As malware and attacks become more sophisticated over time, business decision makers must work with technical decision makers to navigate secu…
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