cryptography

February 5, 2024

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Safeguard Your Network in a Post-Quantum World

3 min read

Cisco is enabling customer outcomes with stronger security through innovative quantum-safe security that helps eliminate the key distribution problem in a post-quantum world. 

It’s Not Too Early to Start Thinking About Post-Quantum Security

2 min read

In networking and communication, information security is absolutely necessary when transmitting over any untrusted medium, especially the Internet. Cisco is tracking all of the solutions in this area and will bring to market a flexible solution that will enable our customers to use whatever PQ secure solution they feel more appropriate for them.

October 10, 2019

SECURITY

Cisco Advances Communications Security with Completion of Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol Testing

2 min read

We assume our communications are secure.  But are they?  Cryptography provides the foundation of secure communications, but how to know if that cryptography is correct and secure?

June 18, 2018

SECURITY

Thinking About a Cyber Career? Just Jump In

3 min read

If you care about cyber security and you’re willing to work hard, we need you. Yes, YOU.

March 19, 2018

SECURITY

Reaping the Diversity Dividend

3 min read

Supporting Cisco’s Women in Cyber initiative is incredibly important – to me personally and for the company. It’s all about the most important aspect of problem solving: bringing diversity of...

December 27, 2017

SECURITY

The Impact on Network Security Through Encrypted Protocols – QUIC

3 min read

QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections, an experimental protocol designed and deployed by Google.

December 18, 2017

SECURITY

Collaborating with NCSU to promote lightweight crypto validation and assessment

2 min read

Cryptography is very important in today’s world. Improper or maliciously altered crypto implementations have been a concern for the industry in recent years. To alleviate the risk, Cisco has been working with the industry, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other international organizations on finding ways to validate crypto implementations and speed […]

February 14, 2017

SECURITY

The impact on network security through encrypted protocols – TLS 1.3

4 min read

This post is the second part of my series around the impact of encrypted protocols on network security. You can find the first article about HTTP/2 here: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/the-impact-on-network-security-through-encrypted-protocols-http2 Now let us focus on the new and upcoming specification of TLS 1.3. It is important to understand what advantages TLS 1.3 brings to us, but also […]

December 30, 2016

SECURITY

The impact on network security through encrypted protocols – HTTP/2

4 min read

This is the start of a planned series of posts around the impact that new protocols are making on the way many of us deal with network security today. The protocols we have been using on the internet, mainly TCP with HTTP 1.1, have shown that they cannot deal with today’s requirements for fast and […]