2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report
Using Network Telemetry and Security Analytics to Detect Attacks
The Cisco 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report has been released, and just like the Cisco Annual Security Report and many other security reports the news isn’t encouraging. The very first sentence in the midyear report explains that as defenders, we simply aren’t getting the job done: “Attackers curren…
A Key Ingredient Organizations Need to Combat Advanced Cyber Threats
CFOs, and their technical counterparts, are leading board-room level strategic information security decisions. This isn’t a surprise. A recent Accenture study noted that 75 percent of CFOs are “getting in the driver seat” regarding technology investment decisions. Flexibility, in regards to both fin…
The Time Is Now for Organizations to Address Their Aging Infrastructure
Cisco has been working to draw attention to the hidden security risks organizations face by not properly maintaining their aging infrastructure and patching vulnerable systems. Threat actors, including ransomware operators, are using vulnerable Internet infrastructure as a foothold to launch their c…
Go Digital Securely … and Fast
Would you trust your money to a bank if it had no vaults and no guards? Of course you do. You do it every day. With the digitization of banking and other financial services, customers cannot see all the defenses being used to protect their assets. There are no alarms nor armored cars, it is all 0’s…
Time is of the Essence: Announcing the Cisco 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report
It’s time again for our Midyear Cybersecurity Report (MCR), providing updates from Cisco security researchers on the state of security from the first half of the year. The 2016 MCR supplements the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report published in January with mid-year analysis and insights on the evolv…