Security

It’s that time of the year again; where we all eagerly await to witness the next evolution of technology. The Apple Special Event has become a global annual tradition, bringing us advancements from biometric authentication security to simple, automated approaches for interacting with Siri voice reco…

Cisco is proud to announce that it was named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Unified Threat Management. The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinctions are a ranking of vendors by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of end-user reviews, an…

While email remains the #1 threat vector, the tools attackers use continues to evolve — we’re no longer dealing with annoying emails sent by amateurs.  Instead, well-funded and persistent organized crime and nation states create vast email schemes. At the heart of these attacks? Massive amount…

Co-authored with: Jan Jusko, Harry Nayyar, and Danila Khikhlukha. Adversaries continue to evolve their techniques to evade detection. Static analysis approaches are prone to evasion using malicious packers, code obfuscation, and polymorphism. That means that the vast majority of malware is unique to…

NATO’s mission is to protect the freedom of its members. NATO has innovated and adapted itself to ensure its policies, capabilities and structures meet current and future threats, including the collective defence of its members.  In July 2016, Allies reaffirmed NATO’s defensive mandate and rec…

Connect the dots of endpoint visibility and use it as a threat and compliance early warning system Splunk’s annual user conference, .conf18, kicks-off next week in Orlando.  Cisco will be there in a big way given the depth and breadth of our Splunk security integrations.  But I wanted to shine a lig…

We know adversaries have the expertise and tools necessary to take down critical infrastructure and systems that cripple entire regions. These critical systems are essential to our global economy, physical security, and health. We rely on them to provide electricity in our homes; transportation to w…

Today, September 26, 2018, we released the second and final Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2018. As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and Septembe…

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States, European Union, and many countries around the world. Cybersecurity Awareness Month brings to light the many successes we’ve realized and the struggles we continue to face – a sobering reminder that our work is far from finished. This yea…