RSA Conference
Security Simplified, Introducing Cisco SecureX
What a whirlwind week it’s been here at the RSA Conference. There was so much to see and to learn. At RSA this year, Cisco showed up in a big way. On Monday, February 24th we had an exciting new announcement–the unveiling of our new platform that will redefine security, Cisco SecureX. Cisco S…
‘Never Trust, Always Verify’: Duo joins forces with AMP for Endpoint
29.3 billion – that’s the approximate number of devices and network connections estimated globally by 2023, according to the latest Cisco Annual Internet Report. As we get more connected, we can expect to see a massive rise in cybersecurity threats – a trend that is predicted to double from 9 millio…
Threat hunting doesn’t have to be difficult—Taking a proactive position with your cybersecurity
Your Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) is up to date with the latest version. Your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology has all of the latest framework rules and automaton in place. Vulnerabilities and patches for hardware and software are all covered. Your Defense in Depth strategy app…
A Platform Approach + Precise Analytics = Better Equation
There are so many companies each year at the RSA Conference, it would be useful to have some analytics to help guide your time there; which of the 700 plus vendors should you try and spend time with to solve your current problems? Similarly, customers are trying to keep up with the growing list of t…
The road to industrial IoT security
One of the main topics of this year’s RSA Conference is IT-OT cybersecurity convergence. But what are we talking about? Industrial IoT (IIoT) is all around us: in water, in gas, and electricity distribution networks, running power plants and critical infrastructure, in production lines and transport…
Introducing SecureX
Making Security an Enabler, so Your Business Can Take an Exponential Leap I joined the Cisco Security team the week after the RSA Conference in 2017. At that time there was a lot of discussion around the journey Cisco Security was on, particularly around our efforts to deliver an integrated architec…
The Future of Cisco Security: Protecting What’s Now and What’s Next
When we look at the world today, it has been revolutionized by the cloud, and it has disrupted the way business is done. Companies can now connect any user on any device to any network or application. But from a security perspective this has greatly expanded the attack surface. This represents an op…
Announcing Duo’s MFA for Cisco’s Firepower Threat Defense (FTD)
This blog post is the second in a three-part series on how Duo’s MFA integrates with Cisco technology. Read part one here. More than 5,000 customers use Duo’s multi-factor authentication (MFA) with Cisco’s AnyConnect to provide secure VPN access to users – the integration with Cisco’s AnyConnect VPN…
Better Security with Trusted Access
Better. As we think about security in 2019, let’s consider the theme for this year’s RSA Conference: Better But as RSAC asks, what defines better? It is better security tools? Better threat intelligence, Better machine learning classifiers? Yes. And more. Much like RSAC suggests, bet…