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Frost & Sullivan has awarded Cisco the 2018 Market Leadership Award in the Global Network Firewall Market. Frost & Sullivan defines firewall market leaders as “those that recognize the varied needs of the market and evolve their firewall platforms to meet those needs – now and into the…

If you attended a Cisco Live or an RSA conference in the past couple of years you may have come across a display entitled “Cisco Security at Work”. This display, often referred to as the Threatwall, is a live display of threats on the wireless network at the conferences where it is deployed. Current…

Part 2: Visibility to detect and stop threats fast In my last post, we explored how a firewall should be using top-notch threat intelligence, sound security policy, and features like intrusion prevention to pre-emptively stop threats before they can embed themselves in your network. These preventive…

Part 1: Prevent breaches automatically to keep your business moving At Cisco, we’re constantly talking with executives and IT leaders about cybersecurity. They’re concerned – they want to know how to protect their company, their employees, and their customers. But three primary concerns always seem…

In Cisco IT’s role as Customer Zero, we have been partnering with the security business group to test-drive the new Firepower 6.3 software. Our ultimate goal is to help improve the code before it is released to our customers. To put our money where our mouth is, we deployed the code into our product…

As one of the largest security companies in the world, we take great pride in building solutions that many thousands of organizations trust to secure their networks. Small businesses and large enterprises alike rely on Cisco firewalls to keep their organizations running. With our latest release, Fir…

You have a Cisco ASA stateful firewall[i]. You like it. It’s reliable. You think, “It works… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But you’ve had your ASA for years now, and during that time, threats have evolved. Malware is more sophisticated than ever. What’s more, your business has grown, the demands…

When we started the Cisco Security Technology Alliance (CSTA) a few years ago, we didn’t envisage it growing into such a large ecosystem of technology spanning the breadth of our Cisco Security portfolio in such a short span of time. But security is most effective when it works as an integrated syst…

With the rise of encrypted traffic, it is becoming extremely resource intensive for organisations to decrypt traffic for security use cases. And with increasing adoption of TLS 1.3 and privacy-oriented TLS mechanisms like certificate pinning (HPKP), decryption using man in the middle (MITM) techniqu…