Cisco achieves 100% detection in Breach test
And why 100% detection is grossly misleading It is with great pride that we received the latest Breach Detection Report from NSS Labs, in which Cisco achieved a 100% detection...
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The Time Is Now for Organizations to Address Their Aging Infrastructure
Cisco has been working to draw attention to the hidden security risks organizations face by not properly maintaining their aging infrastructure and patching vulnerable systems. Threat actors, including ransomware operators, are using vulnerable
Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2016
This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Jonah Samost Today is Patch Tuesday for August 2016, and Microsoft has released several security bulletins and associated patches to resolve security issues across their products. This month’s patch
The Haves & Have Nots: Threat Management Maturity
IT departments regularly ask us questions about their security posture, their security concerns, and specifically, the makeup of their Threat Management (TM) organizations. Generally speaking, Threat Management includes anything in the
The General Behavior of Ransomware
This is the first in a series of blogs about advanced malware Behavioral Indicators Morph Over Time A large part of Threat Grid’s efficacy in determining the nature of a submitted file is through the use of over 675 indicators to identify malware. The
Quantum-resistant signatures: an update
Quantum-resistant crypto Recently there has been great media attention on Quantum Computers (QC) and their potential impact on current cryptography standards. We blogged about it in 2015. All of this attention has drawn out critical efforts from
Seeing Over the Wall: Unified TrustSec-ACI Policy Monitoring with Stealthwatch and ISE v2.1
Visibility has always been a core component of building effective security policy. Starting with the discovery phase of understanding the behavior of the users and assets on a network through...
MITM Training at Black Hat USA 2016
To prevent a security breach and loss of critical business data, security teams must be diligent in defining, identifying, and classifying security gaps in their organization’s network. Many security teams conduct pentesting as a way to assess and
A “quick” guide to QUIC
Intelligence Gathering 101 Traffic analysis is rapidly becoming critical for threat analysis and incident response teams, and a choke point on their capability to be effective. Performing analysis on incoming threats requires security professionals to
Cisco Cybersecurity Viewpoints
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