NGIPS

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…

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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…

“Dad, I love your vintage Porsche! But is it safe?” This is the conversation my 90-year old neighbor recently had with his adult children. The Porsche he inherited from his late father-in-law is a thing of beauty –  sleek, classic body, and driven once or twice a week. The low-mile…

For media organizations, your time is now! The shift from SDI to IP is enabling you to be more agile, operate at a lower cost, and gain the flexibility to deliver premium 4K/UHD content to subscribers on virtually any device at anytime, anywhere. From the time content is acquired, put through produc…

What a giant year for Cisco Security! In 2016, we pursued our effective security architecture with innovative solutions – from the network to the endpoint to the cloud. I couldn’t be more proud of our team and the strides we made to bring together so many elements of our architecture in an integrate…

Today’s digital economy is growing at a phenomenal rate. All modes of commerce from entertainment to finance and retail have moved on-line. You name it; there is an on-line business for it. Not only does selling occur on-line, businesses run their operations online and virtually with cloud-based pro…

This is Part 3 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 3: Challenges of the Typical NGFW What good is a malicious verdict on something that had already penetrated the system? There is no system in the world that can stop 100% of attacks/attackers 100% of the time, so infection i…

This is Part 2 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Enter Threat-Focused NG-Firewall What does a Threat-focused NG-Firewall do differently? Just about everything. Let’s compare the most popular NGFW systems on the market (typical NGFW) with the Cisco Firepower NG-Firewall…