The term “insider threat” is thrown around a great deal in the security world without much clarity. It’s a great marketing buzzword, but what exactly is an “insider threat” security program and how does it affect the Department of Defense? To start with, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center defines an inside threat as occurring […]
To defend yourself, you need to stop thinking conventionally and think like a hacker.
Last month Cisco was thrilled to participate in the Department of Defense (DoD) Trident Spectre 2016 annual exercise conducted at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, VA. Trident Spectre is an annual event for special operations, intelligence, interagency, and law-enforcement personnel to test and evaluate emerging technologies both from government and commercial industries in tactically-focused […]
The world’s leading conference and exhibition dedicated to critical communications, the 18th annual Critical Communications World (CCW) event is to be held May 31 – June 2, 2016 in RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands. Over 4000 professionals are expected representing 120+ countries to network and learn from more than 200 expert speakers and 175 exhibitors. While at […]
Classifying and compartmentalizing information has been around within the Department of Defense before it was even called the Department of Defense. However, as DOD information that was once secured in vaults and safes has become digital data, many new regulations have been introduced that mandate how this data should be processed and handled. These regulations […]
I’m writing to you from AFCEA WEST 2016, one of the biggest naval conferences on the West Coast. Here in San Diego, I’m surrounded by both industry experts and military leaders who are discussing how to use technology to advance the Navy’s mission to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, […]
This post was also authored by Andrew Tsonchev and Steven Poulson. Update 2014-05-26: Thank you to Fox-IT for providing the Fiesta logo image. We updated the caption to accurately reflect image attribution. Cisco’s Cloud Web Security (CWS) service provides TRAC researchers with a constant fire hose of malicious insight and now that we are collaborating with Sourcefire’s Vulnerability Research […]
March 14 – 15 marked the National Finals Competition of CyberPatriot, the largest high school cyber defense competition in the United States. With students crowded around laptops, routers and clocks counting down, teams were given a business scenario. Told that they were newly hired IT professionals managing the network of a small company, they were […]
