#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 3. 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Tim Gurganus.

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Cisco Guest

Tim Gurganus (@hotzoner), Security Incident Manager at Cisco

Tim is a Security Incident Manager with Cisco Active Threat Analytics. He monitors security of Cisco’s largest customers, including Hospitals, financial service companies, and others. He helps to make sure a method exists to detect and mitigate attacks across Cisco’s customers. Tim contributed to the threat intelligence section of the Annual Security Report.

Cisco Champion Hosts

Brandon Carroll (@brandoncarroll), Network Security Solutions Engineer

Jake Gillen (@jakegillen), Senior Security Engineer

Chris Brown (@ChrisKnowsIT), Senior Network Operations Manager

Moderator

Brian Remmel (@bremmel)

Podcast Discussion Topics:

How attackers are using trusted resources to launch attacks

Educating non-savvy users about the dangers of exploits

The value of DNS to combat attacks

The impact of increased encryption for attackers and defenders

The importance of big data and analytics

Decreasing levels of confidence in security preparedness

Cisco’s focus on security

SMB security challenges

Closing the innovation gap

Time to Detection as a security metric

Industry collaboration disrupting attacker infrastructure

For more security trends and insights from Cisco, download the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report.