Black Hat 2024: SOC in the NOC

Black Hat 2024: SOC in the NOC

The Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) provides a high-security, high-availability network in one of the most demanding environments in the world: the Black Hat event. The NOC partners are selected by Black Hat, with Arista, Cisco, Corelight, Lumen, NetWitness and Palo Alto Networks delivering from Las Vegas this year. Cisco is the official Domain Name Service, Malware Analysis and Mobile Device Management provider. The Meraki team is writing a blog about the experiences in…

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Cisco Innovating a New Era of Security at Black Hat 2024

Cisco Innovating a New Era of Security at Black Hat 2024

It’s almost time for another year of cutting-edge research and innovative talks, as thousands of hackers and security professionals descend upon Las Vegas for Black Hat 2024. We invite you to join us, as we celebrate a few important milestones, share the latest threat research, and educate the public with a workshop geared towards accelerating incident response. Visit Cisco at Booth #1732 At the Cisco booth, we’ll feature talks on the latest Talos research, as…

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Retail Tech Deep-Dive: Meraki Security

Retail Tech Deep-Dive: Meraki Security

Join us as we dive deeper into Cisco and Cisco partner technology deployed at the Cisco Store! We asked Chris Weber (Senior Product Manager, Meraki MX security and SD-WAN) and Imran Idrees (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cisco security and SD-WAN) to discuss how Cisco Meraki security allows businesses to stay ahead of the latest threats while reducing both cost and complexity.   How does Cisco Meraki security improve a retailer’s and shopper’s in-store and/or virtual…

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Securing the power grid: Are you ready for NERC CIP’s upcoming mandate?

Securing the power grid: Are you ready for NERC CIP’s upcoming mandate?

A defense-in-depth strategy is one that protects organizations from attacks that bypass the first layer of security controls. It is a well understood concept, and one that has been adopted by most organizations over the years. However, until recently, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) presented a gap where regulation required securing the electronic security perimeter (ESP), but there were no further security controls beyond the network perimeter. If utilities followed NERC CIP, and…

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