Security

Many SMBs are realizing they are exposed to similar threats as their enterprise peers. Often times, those realizations come after an attack. This year, we learned from the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study: More than half (54 percent) of all cyber-attacks result in financial damages o…

What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot. A television commercial comes to mind. It’s the scene of a bank robbery, and alarms are blaring overhead. Two people have taken cover on the floor, and they look up at a nearby security guard who’s standing there cool and calm — and doing absolutely n…

You have a Cisco ASA stateful firewall[i]. You like it. It’s reliable. You think, “It works… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But you’ve had your ASA for years now, and during that time, threats have evolved. Malware is more sophisticated than ever. What’s more, your business has grown, the demands…

Stealthwatch Cloud is best known for network behavioral anomaly detection and entity modeling, but the level network visibility value it provides far exceeds these two capabilities. The underlying traffic dataset provides an incredibly accurate recording for every network conversation that has trans…

When we started the Cisco Security Technology Alliance (CSTA) a few years ago, we didn’t envisage it growing into such a large ecosystem of technology spanning the breadth of our Cisco Security portfolio in such a short span of time. But security is most effective when it works as an integrated syst…

Every month, the Threat Grid development team brings you new features and capabilities in the Threat Grid cloud. After the significant benefit brought to our users by the integration of Cisco Threat Response and the Casebooks feature in the spring, we didn’t rest – we continued to bring new innovati…

Many times, when people think of the term “Next Generation Endpoint Security” they are thinking about a list of capabilities, preventative engines, detection mechanisms, and response capabilities. With so many elements, it becomes incredibly difficult to gauge how they work in the real world. At the…

I recently heard a news story about a survey in which people were asked whether they would prefer the ability to fly or to be invisible. Sure, it was a silly question*, but it was interesting to hear why people made their choices. The majority chose flight. What really fascinated me was that the sur…

We’re excited to announce the availability of the Cisco Umbrella Chromebook client! With the Umbrella Chromebook client, you can protect your Chromebook users from threats on the internet, no matter where they are. As more K-12 schools and organizations move towards 1:1 programs, students and staff…