How to Monitor Network Traffic: Findings from the Cisco Cyber Threat Trends Report

How to Monitor Network Traffic: Findings from the Cisco Cyber Threat Trends Report

The threat landscape is full of moving targets. Over time, popular tools, tactics, and procedures change. Malicious techniques fall out of fashion, only to come roaring back months, if not years, later. All the while, security practitioners monitor network traffic and adapt their defenses to protect their users and networks. Keeping on top of these trends is one of the most challenging tasks for any security team. One great area to look for trends is…

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Cisco Secure Access Wins Global Security Service Edge Customer Value Leadership Award

Cisco Secure Access Wins Global Security Service Edge Customer Value Leadership Award

It’s one thing to claim leadership in cloud security; it’s another to have that leadership acknowledged by industry experts. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce our recent recognition by Frost & Sullivan as the 2024 Customer Value Leader in the Global Security Service Edge Industry. This expert analyst award is a testament to both our commitment to innovation and our unique ability to partner with security leaders to navigate the complexity of securing cloud environments….

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Complexity drives more than security risk. Secure Access can help with that too.

Complexity drives more than security risk. Secure Access can help with that too.

Modern networks are complex, often involving hybrid work models and a mix of first- and third-party applications and infrastructure. In response, organizations have adopted security service edge (SSE) solutions, such as Cisco Secure Access, to protect users regardless of where they are located or what they are accessing. This reliance on third-party infrastructure doesn’t only drive security risk, it also increases the likelihood of performance outages and disruptions. Oftentimes, these disruptions are the result of…

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Mitigating Lateral Movement with Zero Trust Access

Mitigating Lateral Movement with Zero Trust Access

Security service edge (SSE) technology was created to protect remote and branch users with a unified, cloud-delivered security stack. To understand how SSE solutions protect organizations and their users, it’s worthwhile to analyze attacker techniques, as well as the protections and controls SSE solutions use to disrupt them. It’s useful to use the MITRE ATT&CK framework. MITRE ATT&CK is a large knowledgebase of attacker techniques that cybersecurity experts use to describe the attack kill chains…

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Cisco Live Melbourne SOC Report

Cisco Live Melbourne SOC Report

Executive Summary. 1 The Team… 2 Team Leaders. 2 Core Infrastructure and Threat Hunting. 2 Threat Hunting. 2 Build and Operation. 2 SOC Architecture. 2 Cisco Secure Access Enables ZTNA for SOC Admins. 4 Powering XDR with the Cisco Secure Portfolio. 6 Analyst Stories. 9 New Domain Investigations. 9 Mirai Botnet Attempts. 11 Log4j Attempts. 14 SERVER-WEBAPP LB-Link Multiple BLRouters command injection attempt (1:62009:1) Dinkar Sharma, Aditya Sankar 16 Threat hunting and Noise reduction in…

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Drive Your Cybersecurity Platform Transformation: Lead the Way With SSE

Drive Your Cybersecurity Platform Transformation: Lead the Way With SSE

By shifting from point-solutions to a cybersecurity platform approach, IT and security teams significantly improve their efficiency and security outcomes. Security Service Edge (SSE) projects are often an excellent first step in taking a platform-centric security approach. SSE optimizes hybrid work with secure, high-performance, application access that is coupled with integrated threat defense and data protection. Cloud-delivered, it simplifies deployment its operational elasticity flexibly grows with you. Guiding principles for successfully adopting a cybersecurity platform…

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Cisco Secure Access Accelerates SSE Innovation with AI, User Experience Monitoring, and Identity Intelligence

Cisco Secure Access Accelerates SSE Innovation with AI, User Experience Monitoring, and Identity Intelligence

In a blog post last December, I said that the business and IT leaders with whom I meet always ask: How can I secure my highly distributed workforce, who gets more varied and decentralized all the time? How do I provide tight security without burdening them or impeding business?  That hasn’t changed. This still drives conversations early and often. Yet this is never in isolation. Their focus on improving end users’ experience sits right beside…

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Security and AI Innovation: Creating New Opportunities for Partner Growth

Security and AI Innovation: Creating New Opportunities for Partner Growth

I’m on the heels of another incredible week of Cisco events—this time with our customers and partners at Cisco Live EMEA. My main takeaways for partners: we’re driving new security opportunities for you and simplified, effective security for all. Let’s dive into it a bit more. New Security and AI Advancements It really hit home for me when I heard Jeetu Patel on stage talking about how we’ve had more innovations in Cisco Security in…

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Connect, Secure, Assure Every Digital Experience Everywhere

Connect, Secure, Assure Every Digital Experience Everywhere

Today at Cisco Live Amsterdam we’re excited to announce Cisco Secure Access Experience Insights, powered by ThousandEyes — an integrated solution to deliver unparalleled visibility into the digital experience of your securely connected employees and sites. In today’s digital-first world, business productivity depends on ensuring hybrid workers can securely access any application — web, SaaS, or enterprise private applications — from anywhere. As network complexity and attack surfaces expand, delivering excellent digital experience means not…

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Cisco User Protection Suite Provides MSSPs a Comprehensive and Compelling Package

Cisco User Protection Suite Provides MSSPs a Comprehensive and Compelling Package

In August 2023, I authored a blog on Cisco Secure Access, where I discussed the advantages of utilizing a comprehensive, single vendor, Security Service Edge (SSE) packages for both customers and Managed Security Services Providers (MSSPs). Since then, Cisco has launched three security-focused suites that address key customer use cases for the user, for the cloud, and for breach protection. In this blog, we’ll explore the Cisco User Protection Suite, specifically, to understand what it…

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