Managed Threat Defense

May 12, 2015

SECURITY

Attackers Slipping Past Corporate Defenses with Macros and Cloud Hosting

Macro malware is a good example of malware writers and distributors using old tricks that most users have forgotten to spread malware. Unlike earlier macro malware, these macros don’t infect other documents but download password stealing trojans and install them on targets. Macro malware typic…

January 27, 2015

SECURITY

Reducing the Attack Surface: Takeaways from the 2015 Annual Security Report

As the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report shows, current security approaches aren’t sufficient. Attackers are shifting methods and becoming more sophisticated in their approaches, users are unwittingly complicit enablers, and defenders struggle to keep up with all of these things. It is time for defe…

May 15, 2014

SECURITY

Threat Detection: A Big Data Approach to Security

Cisco recently announced the availability of Managed Threat Defense (MTD), an innovative managed security solution that applies real-time, predictive analytics to detect attacks and protect against advanced malware across extended networks. MTD helps our customers address the ever-changing nature of…

May 5, 2014

SECURITY

IE Zero Day – Managed Services Protection

As of May 1, 2014, we can confirm Cisco customers have been targets of this attack. For the latest coverage information and additional details see our new post on the VRT blog. Protecting company critical assets is a continuing challenge under normal threat conditions. The disclosure of zero-day exp…