penetration testing
Can Your Organisation Be Breached? Find Out with a Red Team
Have you ever wondered about how the everyday information available on your network could compromise your entire organisation? I lead the Cisco Security Advisory Services team in EMEAR. We recently performed a “Red Team” exercise in which our client set us the objective of attempting to gain access…
Tabletops Aren’t Just For Eating Dinner On
How to take your Incident Response plan to the next level ‘Practice does everything’ – Periander (Often misquoted as ‘Practice makes perfect’) You’ve gone through the work of creating an incident response (IR) plan, created some runbooks to deal with likely, known threats, and you’re feeling a…
The Best Defense is a Good Offense? Why Cisco Security Researchers Attack Cisco Technologies
This week, Cisco provided comments on the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) proposed cybersecurity regulations. These comments reflect the realities of how Cisco looks to protect both our customers and our products. They also emphasize the critical role that security res…
Concerns about the Department of Commerce’s Proposed Export Rule under the Wassenaar Arrangement
Today, Cisco filed comments on a Proposed Rule published by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in an effort to comply with an international agreement called the Wassenaar Arrangement. The proposal would regulate a wide array of technologies used in security research a…
Introducing Kvasir
Cisco’s Advanced Services has been performing penetration tests for our customers since the acquisition of the Wheel Group in 1998. We call them Security Posture Assessments, or SPA for short, and I’ve been pen testing for just about as long. I’ll let you in on a little secret abou…