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Black Hat Asia 2025: Innovation in the SOC

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Black Hat Asia 2025: Innovation in the SOC

Cisco is honored to be a partner of the Black Hat NOC (Network Operations Center), as the Official Security Cloud Provider. This was our 9th year supporting Black Hat Asia. We work with other official providers to bring the hardware, software and engineers to build and secure the Black Hat network: Arista, Corelight, MyRepublic and Palo Alto Networks. The primary mission in the NOC is network resilience. The partners also provide integrated security, visibility and…

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

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Sign Up for a Tour at the SOC at RSAC™ 2025 Conference

Cisco and Endace are providing SOC Services to RSAC™ 2025 Conference, monitoring traffic on the Moscone wireless network for security threats. Experts will be using Cisco Security Cloud in the SOC, with the power of Cisco Breach Protection Suite and User Protection Suite, and Secure Firewall; with Splunk Enterprise Security as the platform. The SOC is also providing network observability with ThousandEyes. Incidents are investigated with Threat Intelligence, provided by Cisco Talos and other partners,…

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Mobile World Congress 2025: SOC in the Network Operations Center

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Mobile World Congress 2025: SOC in the Network Operations Center

Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona delivered on every promise – a record-breaking event with 109,000 attendees from 205 countries, with over 2,900 exhibitors, sponsors, and partners showcasing an impressive array of cutting‐edge topics, from 5G and IoT to Unified Security for the AI-driven Future. As always, Cisco’s presence showcased a suite of innovations, such as the latest secure connectivity solutions, demonstrated next‐gen wireless innovations, and made several high-profile media announcements that underscored our commitment…

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Canadian Bacon: Cloud Native & Security?

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Canadian Bacon: Cloud Native & Security?

Let’s break this down Cloud inherently provides multiple security options for consumers to enable with little effort. Although it’s easy to enable, managing these controls becomes difficult at best but let me explain. First and foremost, each cloud service provider’s controls are nuanced on how they are deployed and managed. Now, leveraging a single cloud service provider may allow you to overcome this challenge, but these native security controls tend to lack advanced capabilities seen…

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Black Hat Europe 2024 NOC/SOC: Security Cloud

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Black Hat Europe 2024 NOC/SOC: Security Cloud

Cisco is the Official Security Cloud Provider for the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC). We work with the other official partners to bring the hardware, software and engineers to build and secure the network, for our joint customer: Black Hat.  Arista: Wired and Wireless Network Equipment  Corelight: Open Network Detection and Response  Palo Alto Networks: Network Security and SOC Platform  This was our 8th year supporting Black Hat Europe and the primary mission in…

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How AI Innovation Will Elevate SMB Business Outcomes

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How AI Innovation Will Elevate SMB Business Outcomes

AI-enriched networking, security, and observability solutions were the stars of Cisco Live—and for good reason. Technology advancements that were previously inconceivable are now possible—and easily accessible. Small and medium business leaders can benefit from cutting-edge enterprise capabilities thanks to the proliferation of AI. And they don’t have to build a sophisticated LLM or develop detailed generative AI prompts to deploy them. They can simply tap into the robust AI features available in Cisco solutions to…

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User Protection Suite Secures Against Talos Top Ransomware Attack Trends

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User Protection Suite Secures Against Talos Top Ransomware Attack Trends

In Cisco Talos’ first episode of Talos Threat Perspective (TTP) episode, two Talos Threat Intelligence experts, Nick Biasini and James Nutland, discuss new research on the most prominent ransomware groups. They also pick three key topics and trends to focus on: initial access, differences among the groups, and the vulnerabilities they most heavily target. In their research, Talos evaluated the top 14 ransomware groups and reviewed their tactics and techniques. And what they found is…

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Cisco Talos: Top Ransomware TTPs Exposed

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Cisco Talos: Top Ransomware TTPs Exposed

Cisco Talos analyzed the top 14 ransomware groups between 2023 and 2024 to expose their attack chain and highlight interesting Tactics,Techniques and Protocols. The security company also exposed the most leveraged vulnerabilities being triggered by ransomware actors. Ransomware attack chain: What Cisco Talos researchers learned Ransomware actors nearly all use the same attack chain. Typical ransomware attack chain. Image: Cisco Talos Step one for ransomware actors The first step for the threat actor consists of…

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Cisco Talos: LilacSquid Threat Actor Targets Multiple Sectors Worldwide With PurpleInk Malware

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Cisco Talos: LilacSquid Threat Actor Targets Multiple Sectors Worldwide With PurpleInk Malware

A new report from Cisco Talos exposed the activities of a threat actor known as LilacSquid, or UAT-4820. The threat actor exploits vulnerable web applications or uses compromised Remote Desktop Protection credentials to successfully compromise systems by infecting them with custom PurpleInk malware. So far, organizations in various sectors in the U.S., Europe and Asia have been impacted for data theft purposes, though more sectors might have been impacted but not identified yet. Who is…

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New security superpowers to help IT with OT security

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New security superpowers to help IT with OT security

It all starts here at Cisco Live! Getting a glimpse into new announcements that define the future of networking technology is exhilarating. We provide advanced networking and security solutions that are not only robust and secure but also integral to the success of Industry 4.0. As organizations leverage Industrial IoT, AI, and more and more data, the need for secure, high-performance networks has never been greater. For long, organizations have relied on air gapped networks…

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