Stealthwatch Cloud

Only 56 percent of security alerts are investigated, and more than half of those are not remediated, according to the Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report. Responding to these alerts is an overwhelming job, and most organizations do not have the security staff to keep up. Companies of all sizes fa…

In 2019, the average cost of a data breach is $3.9M, and businesses are looking to MSPs, as their trusted technology advisor, to protect them from the ever-increasing threat landscape. Cybercriminals also have MSPs in their crosshairs. So much so that in October 2018, Homeland Security published Ale…

Isn’t it great when the enterprise technology solutions you use to achieve various business outcomes partner and work seamlessly with each other? Cisco and Microsoft have done just that to provide you with a scalable and high-performance cloud infrastructure along with easy and effective cloud secur…

The increasing popularity of traditional cloud computing technologies such as server-less, on-demand compute and containerized environments has made technologies like Kubernetes part of our daily vernacular as it relates to running our applications and workloads. Kubernetes solves many of the proble…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides numerous benefits to customers, allowing companies to be more responsive, available, and cost-efficient. It also provides a number of security capabilities, including strong identity and access management, granular activity logs, and strong policy enforcement. Howe…

Security is a topic that is a top-of-mind for every CIO out there. It is interesting to know that according to a study performed by Research 451, 64% of enterprises report information security is not a separate line in terms of budget, instead, it is part of their IT infrastructure one. In other wor…

The bad guys aren’t going away.  In fact, they are getting smart, more creative, and just as determined to wreak havoc for profit as they have ever been.  The good news is Security solutions and methodologies are getting better.  Next Generation Firewalls, Malware Protection, and Access Control are…

Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud has the unique ability to provide an unprecedented level of visibility and security analytic capabilities within a Kubernetes cluster. It really doesn’t matter where the cluster resides, whether on-premise or in any public cloud environment. Stealthwatch Cloud deploys as a d…

One more date, many new learnings from #AWSSummits. This time I’ll talk about AWS Summit in Anaheim. If you read my previous blog you’ll see that Cisco has taken a strong position on addressing the typical challenges that relate to adopting public cloud into your IT environment. These challenges are…