Security

What’s simple, effective, and protects your distributed network in minutes? A new powerful integration between Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco Umbrella. With just a few clicks, it’s easier than ever to deploy Umbrella across your SD-WAN fabric to hundreds of devices. You’ll instantly gain web and DNS-l…

Cybersecurity empowers organizations to enable trust, move faster, add value and grow. In order for cybersecurity to live up to that promise, it will require an increase in talent and new skills to take on the volume and sophistication of today’s threat landscape. According to industry analysts, the…

This week marks the 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day and Veterans Day.  With veterans top of mind, Cisco today announces the expansion of CyberVetsUSA, a free cybersecurity training program for eligible veterans, transitioning service members, military spouses, and members of the Reserves and Nati…

The proliferation of the cloud has allowed users to connect to applications and data from anywhere and from any device, which has been a net gain for businesses that have reaped the rewards of greater output and employee productivity. But many enterprises have seen their digital transformation hinde…

Kaizen, a Japanese word for “improvement,” is a term used in business to describe ongoing process improvement. The concept is simple: No process is perfect and, even if it’s working well today, the dynamic business environment could demand a change tomorrow. Kaizen is the relentless focu…

How to protect your endpoints from “creepy crypto miners” Here’s what’s creepy about cryptocurrency mining threats. It can lead to the slow death of your computers – capable of literally melting smartphones in some cases – by overworking the CPU beyond its normal capacity. It can trigger massive spi…

As any security consultant will know, the more fun you have on an engagement (see part 1, part 2 and part 3 for the back story), the longer the report will be afterwards and the more important the executive and technical summaries will be in tying all the observations together in an actionable fashi…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Nov. 02 and Nov. 09. 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…

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres, and Vitor Ventura. Executive Summary Financially motivated cybercriminals have used banking trojans for years to steal sensitive financial information from victims. They are often created to gather credit card informat…