Security

Working together to bridge the cybersecurity talent gap We’re excited for this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference (WiCyS) on March 22-24 in Chicago!  The Conference is driven by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Women in Cyber Security initiative, started in 2013 by Dr. Ambareen Siraj to…

Supporting Cisco’s Women in Cyber initiative is incredibly important – to me personally and for the company. It’s all about the most important aspect of problem solving: bringing diversity of thinking to a team and to a problem—unique perspectives that we would otherwise not have because of the bias…

Cisco Women of Impact 2018 I am proud to be part of the Cisco family where diversity is not just a buzzword of the day, but a cornerstone of who we are, and it starts at the top with our CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco not only talks diversity, it walks diversity, with 40 percent of its Board and 38 percen…

Research from Cisco and partners reveal increased interest in IoT and ICS from security professionals and attackers alike Technology solutions and processes that rely on the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly becoming standard equipment in many organizations as well as industrial facilities, than…

It’s no surprise that organizations are increasingly investing in the cloud for its key capabilities—ease of use, scalability, and cost savings. When we asked 3600 security professionals why they host networks in the cloud, our Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report revealed that 57 percent did so b…

Cybercriminals are more creative, more relentless, and more strategic than ever, working feverishly to extract as much sensitive data as they can, and often inflicting considerable damage upon today’s businesses.  Considering the dynamic, ever-growing threat landscape that continues to increase secu…

Today, 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 74 new vulnerabilities, with 14 of them rated critical and 59 of them rated important. These vulnerabili…

This is Part 3 in our Four Part DevSecOps Blog Series In Part 2 of this blog series, DevSecOps – Security at the Speed of Business, we explained the “what” and “why” of our security guardrails and the Agile Hackathon method used to develop these guardrails, which enable…

In the realm of threat defense, hindsight is 20/20. That’s because, all too often, it’s difficult to get a clear view of your entire network’s security in real-time. And to accurately predict network threats? Forget about it. But not with Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP). Giving you the visib…