network security

The firewall remains the front line of cyber-defense for most organizations. The firewall protects an organization’s network, and that function isn’t going away anytime soon. Remember when people used to say, “the firewall is dead”? The numbers tell a different story. Gartner forecasts that this mar…

Scaling with the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family of Switches This blog is authored by Joseph Salazar, Technical Marketing Engineer at Attivo Networks Networks are constantly evolving to meet the demands of ever-expanding digital business infrastructure. Organizational networks can now include remote offi…

Part 3: Save time and reduce complexity with better management, automated operations, and product integration Networking and security teams are up against a lot. Hunting for cyberthreats is difficult. Policy management and enforcement across multiple devices is time-consuming and error-prone. Most t…

Part 2: Visibility to detect and stop threats fast In my last post, we explored how a firewall should be using top-notch threat intelligence, sound security policy, and features like intrusion prevention to pre-emptively stop threats before they can embed themselves in your network. These preventive…

Part 1: Prevent breaches automatically to keep your business moving At Cisco, we’re constantly talking with executives and IT leaders about cybersecurity. They’re concerned – they want to know how to protect their company, their employees, and their customers. But three primary concerns always seem…

Network visibility is crucial to running a strong network security practice. Oftentimes when organizations first deploy Cisco Stealthwatch, it uncovers previously unknown risky or suspicious activity on the network. In some cases, it detects an outright breach. With Halloween right around the corner…

Mid- to large-sized enterprises have for many years built the operational technology (OT) environment like an egg – a hard exterior protected by traditional security elements such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, and malware detection (if you are lucky), but a soft interior leaving critical operational assets…

“If we had just kept our systems patched, the malware wouldn’t have been a problem.” After every major breach you usually hear those words echoed across news media. You might even pause for a moment and tell yourself that if the victims had just patched their systems, they would have bee…

I am not typically nervous when I go into podcast interviews, but I have to admit that I was more than a little intimidated by the time I’d finished my research on Patrick Crowley. It wasn’t just that he is the Stealthwatch Cloud CTO. I mean, I suppose that alone is intimidating on its face, but we…