NETWORKING

As dynamic network, data center, and cloud environments become more complex, effective security requires greater visibility and intelligent policy recommendations. We recently co-sponsored a survey of almost 500 security and IT pros, from organizations with at least $250 million in annual revenue, and 73% said they lacked actionable insight in their application environments. That’s a cry for help. The good news for our partners, and their customers, is that help is on the way. Today’s…

It was just over a year ago we were together at the RSA Conference at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. It was just before life as we knew it took an abrupt turn. Looking back, we could have never imagined how the world would change and just how critical the work we do as security professionals would become to businesses, schools, hospitals and governments.  Most organizations did not have a contingency plan for a global pandemic. The digital transformation projects that…

I’ve been fortunate to be part of a few great teams and products. Among the most consequential is Secure Firewall Threat Defense 7.0, announced today at the RSA Conference. We’ve increased throughput by up to 30%—across enabled AVC, IPS, and VPN services—for the majority of Cisco Secure Firewalls. And those massive performance gains are simply the beginning of the story. Today, we’re also announcing a new way forward: NetWORK security. It’s our vision for simplifying…

It’s been a year since Cisco launched SecureX, and we recognize it takes a village to innovate and celebrate. Throughout Cisco’s journey delivering the first-ever integrated security platform to market, our team of experienced cybersecurity experts, accomplished engineers and product management have remained closely aligning with CISOs and security customers to deeply understand—and think ahead of—the challenges of the modern security portfolio. We remain steadfast in our commitment to a radically simplified security experience for…

It’s an exciting time in the world of networking and security. An unprecedented disruption is emerging in the way that we securely connect to resources and applications as well as the way that we consume these services. With users connecting from everywhere and applications and services rendered from various locations (well beyond the datacenter) it has become increasingly complex to assure proper connectivity for all people wherever they are, to any application, at any time….

Application environments have become dynamic with the transition from monolithic to microservice and container-based architectures. This transition is fueled by demand for elastic, flexible, and scalable applications that meet rapidly changing business needs. With application environments becoming dynamic, there is a desperate need for security tooling, including firewalls, to do the same. Secure Firewall Cloud Native is the latest addition to the Secure Firewall family, modernizing the way enterprises and service providers secure applications at scale. Whether on-premises or…

At Cisco, we are consistently focused on delivering the best results for our customers and partners, while also working to power an inclusive future for all. To achieve this, it is essential that we have the absolute best leaders to help us reach our goals. I am thrilled to share that Maria Poveromo will join Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team as our Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, leading our amazing Global Communications team to…

With more employees preparing to return to company offices at least part of the time, businesses have turned their attention to ensuring the safety of workers—given the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In some cases, Internet of Things (IoT) and networking technologies are playing a key role in these efforts. In fact, organizations might make decisions on when and how to bring workers back based on how well they can monitor them and their behavior using these…

Few security topics have elicited as much mythology as pipeline security incidents. Perhaps it is the nature of the esoteric equipment involved, the stories of explosions in the tundra, international intrigue, or just the fact that the scale of what could happen, and its impact, is so broad. I happen to live along the path between the Permian Basin (the US’s largest petroleum reserves) and the Gulf Coast refinery belt and am sensitized to pipeline…

Almost all Wi-Fi is potentially vulnerable to flaws that date back to 1997 when it became commercially available, but even the person who discovered the weaknesses says some of them are difficult to exploit. Mathy Vanhoef, a post-doctoral student at NYU Abu Dhabi, has created attacks—FragAttacks—that take advantage of the vulnerabilities, but in an academic paper about them, says the most widespread vulnerabilities can be exploited only under specific, rare conditions, and require either user…