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Ferguson Group Ltd keeps an Eye on Operations with Cisco Physical Security
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I remember growing up in the UK years ago during the UK’s ‘North Sea Oil Boom’. It was a time of great excitement and opportunity for the nation. A whole industry was developed to deal with offshore exploration to ‘bring the energy home’. It was Aberdeen’s local ‘moon landing’ event – just five months after […]
March 2014 Threat Metrics
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The median rate of web malware encounters in March 2014 was 1:260, compared to a median rate of 1:341 requests in February. At least some of this increased risk appears to have been a result of interest in the NCAA tournaments (aka March Madness), which kicked off during the second week of March in the […]
OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability CVE-2014-0160 – Cisco products and mitigations
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*** UPDATED 15-April 2014 *** By now, almost everyone has heard of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability with CVE id CVE-2014-0160. The vulnerability has to do with the implementation of the TLS heartbeat extension (RFC6520) and could allow secret key or private information leakage in TLS encrypted communications. For more detailed information, visit the VRT’s analysis. […]
Drivers for Managed Security and what to look for in a Cloud Provider [Summary]
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The first blog of this series discussing the role of data security in the cloud can be found here. In 2014 and onward, security professionals can expect to see entire corporate perimeters extended to the cloud, making it essential to choose a service provider that can deliver the security that your business needs. While organizations can let business needs […]
Drivers for Managed Security and what to look for in a Cloud Provider
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The first blog of this series discussing the role of data security in the cloud can be found here. In 2014 and onward, security professionals can expect to see entire corporate perimeters extended to the cloud, making it essential to choose a service provider that can deliver the security that your business needs. While organizations […]
The Security Imperative As Mobility Evolves
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Editor’s Note: This post is a response to EN Mobility Workspace. Please see that post for full context. A colleague of mine here at Cisco, Jonathan, recently spoke well to the Evolution of Cisco Mobility Workspace Journey. Like all technologies, there is an adoption and engagement cycle based on maturity and risk level. We begin […]
In Search of The First Transaction
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At the height of an eventful week – Cloud and IoT developments, Open Source Think Tank, Linux Foundation Summit – I learned about the fate of my fellow alumnus, an upperclassman as it were, the brilliant open source developer and crypto genius known for the first transaction on Bitcoin. Hal Finney is a Caltech graduate who went […]
February 2014 Threat Metrics
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Web surfers in February 2014 experienced a median malware encounter rate of 1:341 requests, compared to a January 2014 median encounter rate of 1:375. This represents a 10% increase in risk of encountering web-delivered malware during the second month of the year. February 8, 9, and 16 were the highest risk days overall, at 1:244, […]
Understanding Security Through Probability
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This post was also authored by Min-yi Shen and Martin Lee. Security is all about probability. There is a certain probability that something bad will happen to your networks or your systems over the next 24 hours. Hoping that nothing bad will happen is unlikely to change that probability. Investing in security solutions will probably […]
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