Cisco Umbrella

March 4, 2019

SECURITY

Better: Cisco Security Drives Innovation, Growth and Empowers Customers

It has been a year since last RSAC when I became head of the Cisco Security Business Group. During this time, we have greatly expanded the number of customers we both serve and protect while continuing to deliver market leading innovation keeping ahead of today’s threats. Cisco continues to offer th…

March 1, 2019

THREAT RESEARCH

Threat Roundup for Feb. 22 to March 1

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Feb. 8 and Feb. 15. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral c…

February 28, 2019

SECURITY

Happy Birthday, Threat Response: Only a year old, but boy have you seen some things!

Cisco Threat Response: For security analysts, by one of their own The work of a security analyst is arduous and time consuming but rewarding too. I know, I spent a good part of my career sitting in a seat, investigating and responding to threats in a Security Operations Center (SOC). I spent way too…

February 22, 2019

SECURITY

Malicious Cryptomining is Exploding. Are you at risk?

Cryptocurrency is making it easier for hackers to get paid while protecting their anonymity. Malicious cryptomining is on the rise – moving more mainstream, and as a result, more profitable than ever. And the market volatility of cryptocurrency makes this emerging threat more financially lucra…

February 13, 2019

SECURITY

Cisco at RSA Conference 2019 – Making security better

Over the past several years, cybersecurity has moved from uber techies into the mainstream. When the Olympics can be disrupted by highly targeted malware, and ransomware has grown to be above a billion dollars, we’ve clearly reached a critical turning point. Not to mention the fact that whole countr…

January 23, 2019

DEVELOPER

Customize Your Cisco Security Solutions via APIs

Cisco Umbrella APIs help you create awesome programs Dear reader. This is the first in a series of blogs where I will discuss Cisco Security solutions and their respective API’s. The goal of these blogs is to enable you to leverage the most out of the various Cisco Security solutions and customize t…

January 3, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco Mobility Express and Cisco Umbrella – Security Simplified!

We’ve had a few busy months with our Cisco Mobility Express solution. How busy? Read Part One and Part Two of my blog series to look at all the recent Mobility Express enhancements. Following in this trend of new innovations, I am excited to share another key enhancement to the Mobility Expres…

December 18, 2018

SECURITY

Cisco Threat Response: Open Source Integrations You Can Use Now

Cisco Threat Response is built upon a collection of APIs; which can be used to integrate your Cisco and third-party security products, automate the incident response process and manage threat intelligence and security context data in a single location. Over the next few months, our team will be work…

December 15, 2018

SECURITY

Black Hat Europe 2018

Warning from Black Hat NOC Cisco Security helped secure the Black Hat Europe 2018 Network Operations Centre (NOC) for the second year; joining conference producer UBM and its other security partners RSA Security, Palo Alto Networks, Rukus and Gigamon. Cisco provided DNS visibility and threat intelli…