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Threat Roundup for January 3 to January 10
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Jan 3 and Jan 10. 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 cha…
Datacenter Security: How to Balance Business Agility with Great Protection
When IDC consults with enterprise customers or performs worldwide surveys, security is invariably an acute concern. That’s regardless of geography, industry, and identity of respondent (executive, LoB, IT, DevOps, etc.). While the challenge of providing protection and security extends across all pla…
Continued Escalation of Tensions in the Middle East
Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are cont…
An Overview of Zero Trust Architecture, According to NIST
NIST recently released a draft publication, SP 800-207: Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), an overview of a new approach to network security. While ZTA is already present in many cybersecurity policies and programs that sought to restrict access to data and resources, this document is intended to both &…
Relentless Breach Defense Endpoint Protection Platform + Endpoint Detection and Response
As evasive and complex as today’s threats have become, it’s no wonder security professionals in organizations of all sizes are ripping out their legacy antivirus completely in favor of Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies. Endpoint Protection Pla…
Cisco ASA DoS Bug Attacked in Wild
This post authored by Nick Biasini Cisco Talos has recently noticed a sudden spike in exploitation attempts against a specific vulnerability in our Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Appliance. The vulnerability, CVE-2018-0296, is a denial-of-service and information disclosure d…
Threat Roundup for December 13 to December 20
Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Dec 13 and Dec 20. 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…
The 3 W’s in Zero Trust Security
Picture this scenario: you are a security guard at an office building. Today you are looking after a restricted area. A person you’ve never seen before walks straight past you into one of the rooms. Would you stop them or would you just assume they are allowed to be there? In a physical world, trust…
Anomaly Detection in Complex Systems: Zero Trust for the Workplace
Zero trust and complexity management represent a new basic combination for a closed-loop approach to anomaly detection and mitigation for critical infrastructures. This abstract introduces a set of functional blocks that could enable automation and assurance for secure networks. These blocks are des…
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