Security

Blog 2 of the CISO Experience series This year Cisco hosted their first CISO Experience at CiscoLive Barcelona, on 29 and 30 January. The event attracted over 60 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other senior security leaders, who discussed the topics that are shaping cybersecurity in…

This post is authored by Jeremiah O’Connor and Dave Maynor with contributions from Artsiom Holub and Austin McBride.  Executive Summary Cisco has been tracking a bitcoin theft campaign for over 6 months. The campaign was discovered internally and researched with the aid of an intelligence shar…

Cisco has been honored by its users to be named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Network Firewall.  The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinctions are a ranking of vendors by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of end-user revie…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2018 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 54 new vulnerabilities with 14 of them rated critical, 38 o…

With just three months to go until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable on May 25, most global companies are racing to prepare. We all want to avoid the substantial fines (up to four percent of revenue) and other penalties. But the benefits of good data privacy processes…

The Winter Olympics this year is being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Guardian, a UK Newspaper reported an article that suggested the Olympic computer systems suffered technical issues during the opening ceremony. Officials at the games confirmed some technical issues to non-critical systems…

Blog 1 of the CISO Experience series This year Cisco hosted the first CISO Experience at Cisco Live Barcelona, on 29 and 30 January. The event attracted over 60 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other senior security leaders, who discussed the topics that are shaping cybersecurity in 2…

We would like to announce a “Save the Date” and “Call for Speakers” for the FIRST Amsterdam Technical Colloquium (TC) 2018. The main event, hosted by Cisco Systems in Amsterdam, Netherlands will be a plenary style conference held on the 17th and 18th of April 2018. We are also offering optional, fre…

The need to have a strong data privacy and protection plan continues to heat up. The more we share, the more market researchers gather information on their consumers, the more vigilant we need to be on our privacy programs and compliance. Guidance on creating a privacy program can seem pretty straig…