Ben Nahorney

Firewalls are a key component of any perimeter defense —the proverbial guard towers in your fortifications. Here, we examine the top threats encountered by Cisco Secure Firewall, and the Secure IPS component and Snort rules used control and inspect the traffic on the network.

We take a look under the hood of the headline-grabbing REvil ransomware, showcasing what the threat looks like and how it goes about locking down a computer.

In a supply chain attack, bad actors target companies you rely upon to get to your organization. This Threat Explainer blog discusses how to defend against them.

A deep dive into industry-specific threat trends surrounding malicious DNS activity.

An examination of the trends seen in malicious DNS activity during 2020, covering threat categories such as illicit cryptomining, phishing, trojans, ransomware, and others.

Does your organization use RDP? In our latest Threat of the Month blog, we examine how bad actors leverage the protocol and what can be done to protect against attacks.

In this blog series, Threat Landscape Trends, we’ll be taking a look at activity in the threat landscape and sharing the latest trends we see. By doing so, we hope to shed light on areas where you can quickly have an impact in defending your assets, especially if dealing with limited security resources.

In our new blog series, Threat Landscape Trends, we’ll be taking a look at activity in the threat landscape and sharing the latest trends we see. By doing so, we hope to shed light on areas where you can quickly have an impact defending your assets, especially if dealing with limited security resources.

What is WastedLocker and how do Cisco Security technologies stop it? In this blog, we walk through the infection process, alongside points where our technologies can detect and block the threat.