Encrypted Traffic Analytics

We’ve reached an interesting turning point for encrypted traffic. Gartner predicted that 80% of web traffic would be encrypted by 2019. Sure enough, this prediction came true. Last year, the team at Let’s Encrypt, an organization that helps enable encryption for websites, cited that 80% of web traff…

There was a time when the web was open. Quite literally—communications taking place on the early web were not masked in any significant fashion. This meant that it was fairly trivial for a bad actor to intercept and read the data being transmitted between networked devices. This was especially troub…

Cisco Live San Diego is in full swing! There is a lot going on throughout the week and Cisco Security is showing up in a big way.  Whether you’re in person or not, some exciting announcements came out during the week and I want to make sure you are in the know about all things security. Check…

In June 2017, Cisco announced the Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) solution – a breakthrough technology stack that allows us to gain insight into encrypted traffic without decryption. That insight provides an unprecedented view into the use of encryption across your entire network and allows us to…

Living in the Northern Rockies, we have the privilege of enjoying all four seasons.  This winter we enjoyed a record snow pack and fantastic ski season, with remnant snow piles still dotting the shady sides of many yards.  Living in this climate every fall we are confronted with a barrage of adds wa…

There is only one thing more important than the right answer, and that is asking the right question. I have spent my entire career doing security analytics and all of the useful analytics I have ever delivered to the market have been grounded in asking the right questions. With that in mind, I’d lik…

You have a bigger, more open, and diverse network than ever before. Whether you want to go all-in on cloud, spread your infrastructure across multiple public clouds, embrace containers and Kubernetes, leverage serverless architectures, or double down on on-premise, Cisco Stealthwatch has you covered…

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…

Many SMBs are realizing they are exposed to similar threats as their enterprise peers. Often times, those realizations come after an attack. This year, we learned from the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study: More than half (54 percent) of all cyber-attacks result in financial damages o…