Security

Defenders have a lot of work to do, and many challenges to overcome. While conducting the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study, where we touched more than 3600 customers across 26 countries, these assumptions were confirmed. We have seen that defenders are struggling with the orchestrati…

Network visibility is crucial to running a strong network security practice. Oftentimes when organizations first deploy Cisco Stealthwatch, it uncovers previously unknown risky or suspicious activity on the network. In some cases, it detects an outright breach. With Halloween right around the corner…

The cybersecurity talent shortage is real, and it’s an all-hands-on-deck moment to overcome it. Yet many people who could be well qualified to take on the diverse roles that cyber needs are daunted at the prospect – if they don’t have the deep math or science background commonly associated with this…

I’ve been fortunate to have a great career. While I was drawn to math and science in school, it was rare for a woman to get a STEM-related job in the 1980s, but I did, and at NASA! What a start. That role led by happenstance to my working on the Morris Worm, one of the first big computer worms in hi…

With BYOD, virtualisation, cloud adoption, and IoT becoming commonplace in most organisations, users, devices and workloads are more dynamic than ever. This creates visibility and attribution problems as well as segmentation policies that are increasingly complex and difficult. At a business level,…

Update 9/19/2019: Cisco Named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls Get the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls Read what Gee Rittenhouse has to say in his latest blog about our leadership position in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and…

Will you be going to the upcoming Gartner Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando, Florida in October? If you are, please stop by, attend my session, and say hello as I will be presenting on “Best Practices with Machine Learning in Security Analytics”.  For those not attending, here is a brief overvie…

Every October, we celebrate National Cybsersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). This NCSAM, the five weeks of October are focused on five separate cybersecurity themes: simple steps to online safety, cybersecurity in the workplace, prediction for tomorrow’s internet, consider a career in cybersecurity,…

Securing your business shouldn’t be like playing a game of Clue. Your ecosystem partner technologies should be working together towards a common goal – the security of your business – rather than playing the same game with different hands of cards. That’s to say, your security technologies should be…