Security

It’s no secret that companies that are investing in applications are rising competitively and having greater customer reach. However, applications have become the number one target for breaches and attacks. Let’s face it, modern applications are hard to protect, and vulnerabilities seem to be out of…

29.3 billion – that’s the approximate number of devices and network connections estimated globally by 2023, according to the latest Cisco Annual Internet Report. As we get more connected, we can expect to see a massive rise in cybersecurity threats – a trend that is predicted to double from 9 millio…

Your Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) is up to date with the latest version. Your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology has all of the latest framework rules and automaton in place. Vulnerabilities and patches for hardware and software are all covered. Your Defense in Depth strategy app…

There are so many companies each year at the RSA Conference, it would be useful to have some analytics to help guide your time there; which of the 700 plus vendors should you try and spend time with to solve your current problems? Similarly, customers are trying to keep up with the growing list of t…

Everyone has a spam folder. It’s often disregarded as a dark, bottomless pit for fake emails from FedEx, pharmacy offers, and introductory emails from women far too amorous to be anything but fantastical. You’d be right to largely ignore this folder. Yet each day new emails end up in it. Most of us…

Making Security an Enabler, so Your Business Can Take an Exponential Leap I joined the Cisco Security team the week after the RSA Conference in 2017. At that time there was a lot of discussion around the journey Cisco Security was on, particularly around our efforts to deliver an integrated architec…

As a CISO, where do you see your organization going this year? Perhaps some 20/20 vision could help? If you can forgive the pun, I’m delighted to announce Cisco’s 2020 CISO Benchmark Report. This year we have combined our current standing in the Gregorian calendar with the notion of perfect eyesight…

When we look at the world today, it has been revolutionized by the cloud, and it has disrupted the way business is done. Companies can now connect any user on any device to any network or application. But from a security perspective this has greatly expanded the attack surface. This represents an op…

My cybersecurity trends outlook for 2020 builds on my forecast for 2019.  Identity and application security are still top-of-mind this year, but in new and more advanced ways. As we approach RSA 2020, these are four trends in cybersecurity that I expect will make an impact this year. 1. Zero Trust g…