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Cloud based collaboration is being adopted rapidly by organizations in all verticals, and education is no exception. Access to collaborative tools can’t be as simple as an on/off switch. School administrators need visibility to prevent the loss of sensitive data and to ensure that students aren’t en…

Black Hat USA is my favorite Cybersecurity conference of the year, a relaxed atmosphere with fellow professionals and reunions with friends developed over the years. The Black Hat NOC is run by UBM, and Cisco Security is honored to be a technology partner for malware analysis/threat intelligence and…

For the 2nd year, RSA Conference 2018 APJ created an educational exhibit, sponsored by RSA and Cisco, to monitor the RSA Conference public Wi-Fi network provided by the Marina Bay Sands (MBS). This exhibit was created in the form of the RSA Conference Security Operations Center (SOC). RSA and Cisco…

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…

Recently, researchers have uncovered new attacks against the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network protocol. LTE, a type of 4G network, is a mobile communications standard used by billions of devices around the world. Security researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi di…

Although the cryptocurrency market may have lost ~70% of market cap from a high of $835B, it hasn’t stopped malicious actors, ravenous for the next bull run, from mining cryptocurrency. The birth of cryptocurrency has altered the threat landscape making it easier for malicious actors to get paid and…

Cisco Umbrella’s domain reputation intelligence integrated into Cisco Threat Grid Black Hat’s 2018 world conference tour kicked off in Singapore with Black Hat Asia: two days of Trainings, followed by two days of Briefings and the Business Hall. Cisco Security is now a full Technology Partner of Bla…

Online criminals are constantly gaining entry into business environments through phishing attacks or exploit kits, then applying ransomware. Bad actors are compromising popular websites and bringing up new domains to host malware and botnets. The unfortunate truth is attacks of this nature are lucra…

It’s no surprise that organizations are increasingly investing in the cloud for its key capabilities—ease of use, scalability, and cost savings. When we asked 3600 security professionals why they host networks in the cloud, our Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report revealed that 57 percent did so b…