Security

More than 250 threat hunters, network defenders and analysts gathered ahead of Cisco Live for the second annual Talos Threat Research Summit on Sunday. The conference by defenders, for defenders, returned this year after the inaugural event in 2018 to San Diego, where speakers passed on their knowle…

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…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between May 31 and June 7. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral ch…

There is no question that unwanted email is a source of annoyance. It is also the biggest source of cyber threats. In fact, just last month, spam accounted for 85 percent of all email sent. Plus, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, email is the number one vector for both m…

Come learn from the best in threat defense Throughout the year, you hear us talking about our innovative security strategy – about how integration, automation, and simplification make your security posture better. We highlight the need for a new approach to security in a multi-domain world. An appr…

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…

Cisco Defense Orchestrator adds support for new platforms, cloud logging and advanced analytics Organizations today are faced with securing their business everywhere across their hybrid networks – from the campus network, to remote sites, to public clouds and remote employees. This explosion o…

  We are thrilled to share that Gartner has recently included Cisco in their first ever Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’ report for the Secure Web Gateways (SWG) market for Cisco Umbrella. Gartner Peer Insights is a peer review and ratings platform designed for IT decision makers.…

This blog was authored by Danny Adamitis, David Maynor and Kendall McKay. Executive summary Cisco Talos recently identified a series of documents that we believe are part of a coordinated series of cyber attacks that we are calling the “Frankenstein” campaign. We assess that the attack…