Encrypted Traffic Analytics

More than 25,000 attendees visited Cisco Live in Orlando this year. While this large concentration of network and security professionals was learning about our latest innovations, Cisco Security was busy catching bad guys! Of course we protect our own show, but this year was special… More than 170 c…

Going to a foreign city for a conference can be an exhilarating experience, but it can also be a bit frustrating when it comes to your wireless network. Does your home carrier work in the conference city? How easy is it to go from one public network to another? What’s the security like? How is…

525,600 minutes.  An iconic Broadway anthem immortalized this number as the total number of minutes in a year.  At Cisco, we have spent many of these last 525,600 minutes developing, innovating and working together with customers and partners to help advance their Intent-based networking journeys. …

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…

Networks are becoming increasingly opaque via encrypted sessions, greatly benefiting end users because it ensures privacy and authenticity of the connection between applications over networks where we must assume zero trust.  The bad news is that threat actors are also benefiting from pervasive encr…

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…

Even though business has shifted from brick-and-mortar to online, many retail stores are beginning to realize that optimizing the in-store shopping experience is just as important as the online experience. Providing a pleasant and unique in-store visit could mean a direct increase in online sales. T…

It’s here. Cisco has solved one of the biggest challenges facing the security industry – and now thousands of Cisco customers can start using this breakthrough new network security technology. Back in June, Cisco announced Encrypted Traffic Analytics – a breakthrough technology that identifies malwa…

As of today more than half of the web traffic is encrypted. That’s a big win for businesses and all of us, since it guards against eavesdropping and tampering with content as it moves from device to server and back again. Of course this rise in encryption comes with one big, obvious downside. Hacker…