Cisco Stealthwatch

For most businesses, the rapidly changing nature of the modern data center poses a significant security challenge. The data center remains the heart of digital enterprises, and IT departments are looking for solutions to make the data center accessible anytime, anywhere. At Cisco, we have redefined…

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…

Mid- to large-sized enterprises have for many years built the operational technology (OT) environment like an egg – a hard exterior protected by traditional security elements such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, and malware detection (if you are lucky), but a soft interior leaving critical operational assets…

By sheer necessity, there is an increasingly interdependent role between NetOps and SecOps in many enterprises. Cisco has been monitoring three trends: Networks are connecting ever more devices, locations and users. The complexity of managing them is creating openings for new threats. As advanced t…

Sun Tzu’s the Art of War is a famous book known for insights from the Chinese philosopher with a guided focus on leadership, strategy and military theories. While the book is renowned for many insights into warfare tactics, it also provides some good insight into defensive strategies that are…

On this episode of TechWiseTV, we cover cloud security with Stealthwatch Cloud. This is a specific mention of cloud as it now contrasted/complimented with Stealthwatch Enterprise. I have long been a fan of Stealthwatch but we had not covered them on the show since 2016. Cisco acquired Observable Net…

The GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, is the largest exhibition for a mobile industry.  This year, Mobile World Congress attracted more than 107,000 attendees. But high profile, public networks also attract a lot of cyber threats. Providing Internet connectivity to each of these attend…

If someone were to ask you if your network is secure, can you confidently say ‘yes’? Because that would mean you have a way to know if there’s been an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attack, if hackers have managed to steal credentials and gain access, or even if there’s an employee accessing criti…

Encryption is becoming an increasingly prevalent aspect of digital communications – even when it comes to malware. A Cisco analysis of more than 400,000 malicious binaries found that about 70 percent had used at least some encryption to evade detection as of October 2017. Decrypting this traffic for…