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Planes, trains, and automobiles – if it’s on your network, Cisco ISE can see it

Planes, trains, and automobiles – if it’s on your network, Cisco ISE can see it in minutes and control its access dynamically at scale. Networks are increasingly distributed and more devices are connecting to your network every day. Research finds that 300 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2030, up from 50 […]

June 14, 2016 • 2 min read
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New Cisco Rapid Threat Containment Solution Detects and Automatically Contains Threats

Integration of Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center and Identity Services Engine (ISE) Now Available As explained in our 2015 Cisco Midyear Security Report, attackers are using innovative tactics like exploit kits, ransomware, and advanced malware to evade detection. Organizations are using as many as 40 to 60+ disparate security solutions that typically don’t – and can’t […]

December 11, 2015 • 2 min read
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New Email Security Release Adds Graymail Protection, Web Interaction Tracking, AMP Threat Grid, and More

Each day more than 100 billion corporate email messages are exchanged1. Who doesn’t need to do a little housekeeping and eliminate unwanted emails? But you need to think twice before you click on “unsubscribe.” As you likely read in the 2015 Cisco Annual Security Report, attackers are using applications users inherently trust or view as benign, […]

May 28, 2015 • 2 min read
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Cisco Email Security Stays Ahead of Current Threats by Adding Stronger Snowshoe Spam Defense, AMP Enhancements, and More …

If you read the recently released Cisco Annual Security Report, you will have learned how spammers have adopted a “Snowshoe” strategy, using a large number of IP addresses with a low message volume per IP address, to send spam, preventing some spam systems from sinking the spam. This yielded a 250 percent increase in spam […]

January 29, 2015 • 2 min read
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Extending control and advanced threat protection for web security

Today the web is a favorite vector for threat actors to launch their attacks. According to the Cisco 2014 Midyear Security Report, More than 90 percent of customer networks observed in the first half of 2014 were identified as having traffic going to websites that host malware. More recently, Talos uncovered a massive malvertising network known […]

November 12, 2014 • 2 min read