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		<title>Distributed Denial of Service Attacks on Financial Institutions: A Cisco Security Intelligence Operations Perspective</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/csro-perspective-on-financial-ddos-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/csro-perspective-on-financial-ddos-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post describes the process followed by the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) teams - Applied Security Intelligence (ASI), Strategic Security Research (SSR), IntelliShield Analysts, Content Delivery, IPS (IPS Services and Signature team), Security Technology Assessment Team (STAT), Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), and Management team (Consists of a manager of each of the above teams) - to research, analyze, and subsequently create collateral for the recent DDoS attacks on financial institutions.]]></description>
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		<title>Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls @ Cisco Live 2012 &#8211; San Diego!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/firewall-network-threat-defense-countermeasures-and-controls-cisco-live-2012-san-diego/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/firewall-network-threat-defense-countermeasures-and-controls-cisco-live-2012-san-diego/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cisco Firewall Best Practices Guide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cisco Live 2012 San Diego]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cisco security lab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Aikido]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advent of social networking, BYOD implementations, and web interactions has transcended the Internet traffic flows of yesterday. Adversely, the security risks and threat landscape have not only evolved, but become an ever increasing factor in protecting today's information systems. This continued movement has led to the introduction of a new security topic for the upcoming Cisco Live 2012 conference. This topic and subsequent lab session, "Firewall Network Threat Defense, Countermeasures, and Controls" is part of the "Cyber Aikido" security suite of sessions being offered at Cisco Live 2012, and has been developed around threat defense solutions applicable to Cisco Firewalls. The course is largely based on the upcoming "Cisco Firewall Best Practices Guide".]]></description>
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		<title>Online Shopping: A Classic Case of Convenience vs Security</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/online-shopping-a-classic-case-of-convenience-vs-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/online-shopping-a-classic-case-of-convenience-vs-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is certainly a new day and age for many aspects of today’s society. One prominent sector that continues to lead by example in this area is the Internet, more specifically the online shopping environment. Note that online shopping is not a simple matter of go to a website, click “buy,” and checkout. That would be too simple. Ironically the purchase aspect itself tends to be the simplest matter here. The crux of the experience begins with the search and research phase. What exactly does one need/want? Is there a particular brand in mind? Is there a popular alternative? The convenience of asking and gathering answers to these questions and many more begin the journey, and thanks to the power and slew of resources the Internet provides, shoppers are able to search common products, brands, uses, verify details such as durability, ease of use and more based on the numerous rating systems, applications, web 2.0 solutions, social networking, and the ongoing phenomena that continue to evolve. So what does this mean? What does this have to do with security?]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Number Sharing: Is Your Social Security Number &#8220;Yours&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/social-security-number-sharing-is-your-social-security-number-yours/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/social-security-number-sharing-is-your-social-security-number-yours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=53954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's happening every day. People are inadvertently sharing one of the most personal and private pieces of information, the infamous social security number (SSN). For Jonathan Barnett, the unbelievable became a reality when he discovered that nearly 50 names were connected to his SSN. The irony is that his credit report and social security earnings records are clean. The nation's creditors, employers, and many others depend on this identity system predicated on SSNs.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Engineering: Did you Capture the Flag (CTF)?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/social-engineering-did-you-capture-the-flag-ctf/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/social-engineering-did-you-capture-the-flag-ctf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=53541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Cyber Risk Report for November 7 to 13 covered the second consecutive Social Engineering Capture the Flag event that was organized by Defcon 19 (a prominent industry "underground" security conference). The event proposes a challenge to competitors with the focus of leveraging social engineering tactics to successfully obtain key company information from a list of prospective companies, with the ultimate goal (based on the past two years) of raising awareness of the threat impact social engineering has on organizations. Furthermore, the competition highlights the common tactics and aspects that social engineers employ. As this year's competition drew to a close, the Social Engineering CTF Results Report (which provides a debrief of the event, outcomes, and lessons learned) puts an emphasis on the techniques utilized, and the reasons why the respective techniques ultimately succeeded or failed.]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the NX-OS Hardening Guide</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/introducing-the-nx-os-hardening-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/introducing-the-nx-os-hardening-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[best practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Nexus platform has become a staple in the data center environment, securing the environment begins with the Nexus Operating System (NX-OS). The recently published NX-OS hardening guide seeks to deliver on that. The <a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9402/guide_c07-665160.html" target="_blank">Cisco NX-OS Hardening Guide</a> provides information to help administrators and engineers secure NX-OS system devices, inherently increasing the overall security of a network environment. With the ever-increasing opportunity for exploits and vulnerabilities to prevail, it is imperative that organizations adopt and apply best practices to harden their infrastructure devices. We all know that an environment is only as strong as the weakest link, thus every effort should be made to ensure that each device is hardened.]]></description>
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		<title>Access Control: Understanding iACL vs tACL</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/access-control-understanding-iacl-vs-tacl/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/access-control-understanding-iacl-vs-tacl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[access control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=32193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people already know the gist or difference between iACLs and tACLs, they simply do not identify the terminology. First off, let's clear up some points of confusion. iACL refers to an infrastructure protection access-control list, often referred to as an infrastructure access-list (yes, without the word "protection" it's all the same concept), while a tACL indeed refers to a transit access-control list. ]]></description>
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		<title>When Cyberspace Meets Main Street</title>
		<link>http://blogs.cisco.com/security/when-cyberspace-meets-main-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrae Middleton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber space]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.cisco.com/?p=25924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, during my daily “let's see what's happening today” routine, I read an article that struck me in an eerie -- better yet, intriguing -- manner. The gist of the story is that a crime ring syndicated from cyber space, consisting of Internet-savvy folks and run-of-the-mill thieves, managed to purchase (let's just call it what it is, steal) thousands of dollars in products while conducting shopping sprees at Apple stores.]]></description>
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