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Do you remember the movie “Die Hard”?  Arguably the best Christmas movie ever.  All kidding aside, this movie has a great correlation into Security best practices.  Before we go into that, let’s recap.  The bad guys in the movie were going to steal $640M in bearer bonds.  In order to do so, they nee…

Defenders have a lot of work to do, and many challenges to overcome. While conducting the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study, where we touched more than 3600 customers across 26 countries, these assumptions were confirmed. We have seen that defenders are struggling with the orchestrati…

With BYOD, virtualisation, cloud adoption, and IoT becoming commonplace in most organisations, users, devices and workloads are more dynamic than ever. This creates visibility and attribution problems as well as segmentation policies that are increasingly complex and difficult. At a business level,…

You have a Cisco ASA stateful firewall[i]. You like it. It’s reliable. You think, “It works… if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But you’ve had your ASA for years now, and during that time, threats have evolved. Malware is more sophisticated than ever. What’s more, your business has grown, the demands…

When we started the Cisco Security Technology Alliance (CSTA) a few years ago, we didn’t envisage it growing into such a large ecosystem of technology spanning the breadth of our Cisco Security portfolio in such a short span of time. But security is most effective when it works as an integrated syst…

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…

Cisco and Downer have an ongoing strategic Internet of Things (IoT) partnership that was recently expanded to include Smart Cities. Downer, a diversified engineering and services company headquartered in Australia, in August of 2017, secured a contract to build out and, with the system owner, co-man…

Cybercriminals are more creative, more relentless, and more strategic than ever, working feverishly to extract as much sensitive data as they can, and often inflicting considerable damage upon today’s businesses.  Considering the dynamic, ever-growing threat landscape that continues to increase secu…

  Authored by Hidde Beumer, Cisco Cybersecurity Manager   Today’s mobile service providers connect more devices, data, and services than ever before. Mobile networks have become critical infrastructures in modern societies, so with security threats growing around the world, there is increa…