cryptography
Safeguard Your Network in a Post-Quantum World
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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
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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.
Cisco Advances Communications Security with Completion of Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol Testing
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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?
Thinking About a Cyber Career? Just Jump In
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If you care about cyber security and you’re willing to work hard, we need you. Yes, YOU.
Reaping the Diversity Dividend
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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...
The Impact on Network Security Through Encrypted Protocols – QUIC
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QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections, an experimental protocol designed and deployed by Google.
Collaborating with NCSU to promote lightweight crypto validation and assessment
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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 […]
The impact on network security through encrypted protocols – TLS 1.3
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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 […]
The impact on network security through encrypted protocols – HTTP/2
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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 […]