Cisco Threat Response

We all know the stats. The security workforce shortage is impacting two-thirds of organizations, while the gap — currently at 4 million — continues to grow. Security teams are short-staffed, to the point where a 25% say the inability to keep up with the workload is a root cause of security incidents…

A couple of years ago, my colleague Hazel released an inspiring blog post explaining an interesting analogy on Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity: if cybersecurity was a pizza. As I began to prepare for my festive feast, a similar analogy was cooking (ahem..,) as I thought about how many elements the…

From zero-day malware to cryptojacking, from man-in-the-middle attacks to spear phishing, from ransomware to distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) attempts – businesses of all sizes and industries are the constant target of these attacks. It’s perfectly normal to find this barrage of th…

In January 1900, the four-masted steamship S.S. Australia laid anchor in the Port of San Francisco. The ship sailed between Honolulu and San Francisco regularly, and its passengers and crew were declared clean. However, it is difficult to define what ‘clean’ was in the absence of parameters that cou…

The holiday season is upon us! It’s that time of the year for trying to painstakingly think of the perfect gift. Don’t get stuck gifting your customers with the proverbial firewall “fruit cake”. Here’s an idea: Gift your customers a modern firewall that will lay the foundation for a secure network.…

Complexity is one of the top challenges our customers face today. CISOs not only want to enable their teams to detect and respond to threats faster, they want to simplify workflows and streamline operations at the same time. In our annual CISO surveys, we’ve been seeing a trend toward vendor consoli…

Four million. According to the latest study, that’s the approximate number of cybersecurity jobs around the world that still need to be filled by skilled professionals. With the current cybersecurity workforce measured at 2.8 million, it would need to grow by 145 percent for us to catch up. The same…

Accelerate Threat Hunts and Investigations with Pre-Curated Complex Queries Security teams often lack the ability to gain deep visibility into the state of all their endpoints in real time. Even with a bevy of tools at their fingertips, once an incident occurs, conducting investigations can be liken…

At a time when cybercrime costs three times more than natural disasters globally1, the demands on security are constantly growing. Whether you’re asked to protect a workforce that roams anywhere, a workplace that is digitized, or workloads that run wherever, your disparate security solutions are cre…