Security

This blog was collaboratively written by Lou Ronnau, Scott Bradley, and Dan Maunz on the Cisco Customer Assurance Security Programs (CASP) team.  One of Cisco’s guiding principles is to protect the security of our customers’ networks, and our policies related to vulnerabilities in our products and s…

Talos is disclosing a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft wimgapi library. The wimgapi DLL is used in the Microsoft Windows operating system to perform operations on Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files. WIM is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft to simplify the deploy…

Executive Summary Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 50 flaws, with 11 of them rated “critical,” and 39 rated “important.”…

By sheer necessity, there is an increasingly interdependent role between NetOps and SecOps in many enterprises. Cisco has been monitoring three trends: Networks are connecting ever more devices, locations and users. The complexity of managing them is creating openings for new threats. As advanced t…

Why did you adopt public cloud infrastructure? Most organizations use the cloud to be more responsive to market needs while also minimizing costs. Now it is time for security to embrace that philosophy. In partnership with Google, Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud can now deliver end-to-end visibility, robus…

I’m excited to be attending Cisco Live US in Orlando this week. We have a strong lineup of speakers and sessions, and lots of cool extras like hands-on labs, meet-the-expert conversations and social events. Of course, I’m most excited about engaging with customers who are interested in data privacy.…

Yes, with the growth in security vendors claiming to do Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, one might think it’s the ultimate answer to keeping organizations secure! It is definitely a rapidly evolving technology with many benefits. But while evaluating a security solution, it’s important…

Buzz… I pull out my phone and see my pre-boarding reminder. I click the flight number pre-authorized and -populated in my ridesharing app. A car arrives minutes later, and the next thing I know my driver has pulled onto SFO’s tarmac. Directly in front of me, I see my plane’s boarding stairs ab…

It’s funny how the world turns. I started off in security working for a bank. The model there was very much build it, break it, fix it with our Operational Security team aligning with platform and application support teams to build the projects the business wanted. Very soon after I joined it…