Security

Summary In the past several months Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) researchers have observed a number of blog sites using either fake content or content stolen from other sites to drive traffic to click on ad-loaded web sites. We have observed traffic volume up to 10,000 requests per hour, ta…

“It’s our thesis that privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution and that innovators who are emphasizing privacy as an integral part of the product life cycle are on the right track.” —The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto, 2014 Privacy in an al…

The security of our customers is critical, and when needed, we pull out all stops to protect them. Cisco participates in a large ecosystem of partners, industry peers (yes, that includes competitors), and non-profits that provides insight and awareness into a multitude of security threats. We also h…

In so many parts of life, the passing of time is a benefit. Wine and whisky mature, intelligence is gained, and friendships grow stronger. For those of us working in IT security, however, the passing of time brings new challenges. Prolonging the use of older technology exponentially increases risk a…

Interest in IT security has never been higher. So when a new type of attack comes along, it attracts the attention of our customers and others in the industry. Earlier this week Cisco and Mandiant/Fireye released information about the so-called SYNful Knock malware found on Cisco networking devices.…

This post is officially my first after coming over as part of the Cisco acquisition of OpenDNS. Since 2012, I’ve served as the CTO and am proud to be part of an incredible research team, OpenDNS Labs.  Like the Talos Research Group we are focused on detecting and preventing threats that help protect…

Historically, threat actors have targeted network devices to create disruption through a denial of service (DoS) situation. While this remains the most common type of attack on network devices, we continue to see advances that focus on further compromising the victim’s infrastructure. Recently, the…

The Cisco IPS network based intrusion prevention system (NIPS) uses signatures to detect network-based attacks. Signatures can be created in a variety of engines based on the type of network traffic being inspected. Cisco signatures have very flexible configurations. In this blog post, I will discus…

Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is a security analytics product that discovers breaches in Cisco customer’s networks by means of advanced statistical analysis, machine learning and global correlation in Cisco security cloud. Attached to Cloud Web Security (CWS) and Web Security Appliances (WS…