incident response

The PSIRT Services Framework: Helping the Industry Protect the Ecosystem

At Cisco, our leadership made the decision over twenty four years ago that we would clearly publicly communicate security vulnerabilities or other issues that could potentially expose customers to risk….

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Cisco Threat Response with Email Security Integration: Harmonizing Your Security Products

Those of us who have been in security for more than 20 years are very familiar with the assertion that security is a process. For me, security has always been…

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War Games: A WOPR of a Security Test (Part 4)

These blue team actions should be performed on top of any specific remedial actions that are carried out to resolve specific issues.

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War Games: A WOPR of a Security Test (Part 3)

The Team believes that the likelihood of a successful Internet delivered attack by either a malicious insider or via an external actor is high, given the systemic failures identified in

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Cisco Recognized as a Leader in Incident Response

It is never ideal to “go it alone” during a cybersecurity breach. Talk about a high-pressure situation.  Getting access to experts is critical: with a strong support team, you’ll have…

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War Games: A WOPR of a Security Test (Part 2)

Having defined the scenarios, you can see how these could be linked together in different ways to form comprehensive attack vectors.

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War Games: A WOPR of a Security Test (Part 1)

In what was an interesting change to the usual technical and risk/compliance focused consultancy, the Team carried out a War Games exercise – similar to a “Red Team” engagement.

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Cognitive Intelligence: Empowering Security Analysts, Defeating Polymorphic Malware

In psychology, the term “cognition” refers to a human function that is involved in gaining knowledge and intelligence. It helps describe how people process information and how the treatment…

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Streamlining Threat Investigations with AMP Unity

Preventing malware incidents is very much like preventing bad things from happening in our day-to-day life. We all take precautions every day (well, most of us do, anyway). Actions as…

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Security: Is it Mission Impossible?

Vigilance is key. You can purchase all the tools in the world, but when a breach hits, you need to be prepared–an expert team backed by the latest threat research

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