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February 25, 2020

THREAT RESEARCH

New Research Paper: Prevalence and Impact of Low-Entropy Packing Schemes in the Malware Ecosystem

Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can inhibit the ability o…

September 19, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Cyber Threat Alliance Releases Cryptomining Whitepaper

Despite the recent devaluation of some cryptocurrencies, illicit cryptocurrency miners remain a lucrative and widespread attack vector in the threat landscape. These miners are easy to deploy, and attackers see it as a quick way to steal other users’ processing power to generate cryptocurrency…

August 28, 2017

MANUFACTURING

From motorcycles to manufacturing: Using data as your competitive advantage

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Burt Munro setting the land speed record on a motorcycle. Munro used a 1920, 1,000 CC Indian motorcycle at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to set a record of 184.087 mph—a record that stands unbroken for its class to this very day. He was 68 years old when…

It’s Time to Rethink the Value of “Support”

With the network serving as the foundation for digital business, maintaining the highest availability, performance, and security are the three end states that matter the most. A new standard of service is required for today’s business critical networks, and Cisco Services is leading the way. But don…

November 11, 2014

SECURITY

New White Paper from Enterprise Strategy Group on the Evolution of and Need for Secure Network Access

Mention Network Access Control (NAC) to some security or network operations engineers, and they just might grimace.  Why?  Most people still associate NAC with a set of technologies that were complicated to deploy and implement effectively. Today, however, those nightmare assumptions are far removed…

August 20, 2014

NETWORKING

White Paper: RX-SOP 101

Just released yesterday: Cisco Wireless Release 8.0 includes a feature called Receiver Start of Packet (RX-SOP), which you can think of as putting earmuffs on the access point.  It’s not a new feature, as it has been used in stadiums and other high density deployments to great success for several ye…