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Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up

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Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up

Building network and workload security architectures can be a daunting task. It involves not only choosing the right solution with the appropriate set of capabilities, but also ensuring that the solutions offer the right level of resilience. Resilience is often considered a network function, where the network must be robust enough to handle failures and offer alternate paths for transmitting and receiving data. However, resilience at the endpoint or workload level is frequently overlooked. As…

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Maintaining Digital Compliance with the PCI DSS 4.0

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Maintaining Digital Compliance with the PCI DSS 4.0

The Payment Card Industry data security standards have evolved since 2002 when the first version was released. The most recent update, version 4.0.1, was released in June 2024. This updates the PCI 4.0 standard, which  has significant updates to both scope and requirements. These requirements are being phased now and through March 2025. Cisco has been involved with PCI since the outset, having a seat on the board of advisors and helping craft the development…

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Ingress security from Cisco Multicloud Defense: Protecting cloud networks and infrastructure against advanced inbound threats

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Ingress security from Cisco Multicloud Defense: Protecting cloud networks and infrastructure against advanced inbound threats

Digital transformation and the cloud are driving unprecedented innovation and growth. However, the move to the cloud is expanding threat surfaces out beyond the perimeter – often on endpoints, applications, and cloud services that fall beyond the visibility and control of the organization’s security team. The lack of visibility and control across multiple clouds, regions, and accounts has created a major security gap for organizations looking to continue to innovate and grow through the scale…

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MSSPs: Differentiate your Managed Security Offerings with Cisco XDR

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MSSPs: Differentiate your Managed Security Offerings with Cisco XDR

As an MSSP (Managed Security Service Provider), there is no overstating the intense and well-founded focus on pervasive network security. Whether an organization is looking to secure the network, endpoint, email, cloud, applications, identity, or anything in between, security professionals are overwhelmed with the sheer volume of tools, technologies, and security methodologies that need to be considered. This is only exacerbated by the increasing number of complex threats and techniques being employed by bad actors…

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Egress Security: Part of a Holistic, Multidirectional Security Strategy for Today’s Multicloud World

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Egress Security: Part of a Holistic, Multidirectional Security Strategy for Today’s Multicloud World

Cloud transformation has given rise to a new era of business innovation and growth. According to Enterprise Strategy Group, more than half of production workloads will be running on public cloud infrastructure within the next two years, positioning cloud computing center-stage as the best practice for solving critical business issues and enabling agility. However, the unforeseen by-product of this evolution is complexity, and complexity is the enemy of security. Decentralized IT infrastructure, expanding threat surfaces,…

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