Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

August 20, 2024

LEARNING

Life on the Blue Team: What Does It Take to Be a Cybersecurity Analyst?

6 min read

This blog comes from Daniela Herrera, Senior Technical Content Developer for Security at Splunk, a Cisco company. Daniela builds technical courses for security operations center (SOC) roles as a part of Splunk’s education team. We are excited to have Daniela present in our “Find yourself in the future of cybersecurity” webinar on October 24, 2024. […]

The Trifecta Effect of Integrating XDR, SIEM, and SOAR

7 min read

Stay ahead of sophisticated cybersecurity threats with the trifecta effect of integrating XDR, SIEM, and SOAR. Learn how integrating these technologies can enhance your organization's security.

February 27, 2023

NETWORKING

Greater Monitoring and Visibility for your Security Success

2 min read

Today’s hybrid work environment requires enterprises to adopt a new approach to managing security operations. Cisco has collaborated with Splunk to help enterprises transform security operations with greater monitoring and visibility.

January 24, 2023

NETWORKING

More SASE options for customers with Cisco SD-WAN, security, SSE and SIEM collaborations

4 min read

Cisco has expanded its SASE ecosystem by -collaborating with third-party Secure Service Edge (SSE) vendors Zscaler, Cloudflare and Netskope, allowing you to build SASE architectures using your preferred cloud security vendors.

October 26, 2020

NETWORKING

Giving SecOps a New Weapon with Security Group Access Control Lists

4 min read

Segmenting networks using Security Group Access Control Lists (SGACL) reduces the threat surface by limiting the reach of attacks in east-west traffic to within segments. By sending the permit and deny logs generated by the SGACLs to SIEM applications, SecOps can analyze and correlate them with indicators of compromise generated by other security appliances.

October 23, 2020

SECURITY

“Are we affected?” – A simple question, but quite hard to answer

7 min read

Who doesn’t remember the simple questions you had as a kid, or you now get as an adult from your children: “Why is the banana crooked?” “Why is the sky blue” “Why do people get sick?” That last question is especially relevant today with the current situation – we deal daily with the question “Am […]

August 3, 2015

SECURITY

Getting to Know Tom Powledge, Vice President of Cisco Managed Security Services

5 min read

After several months leading the managed security services portfolio at Cisco, I sat down with the social media team to discuss my path to Cisco, the evolution of the security market, and the future of security. [Note: This is an abridged version of the full interview.] Q: After nearly 20 years at Symantec, why did […]

May 5, 2014

SECURITY

The Continuum Approach for Secure Mobility

2 min read

A couple weeks ago, we spoke about the mobility journey and the phases that organizations take as they embrace the widely accepted mode of mobility—Beyond BYOD to Workspace Mobility (device-focus, application-focus and experience-focus). Whatever phase your organization is in, security is a top priority. These phases can help determine your secure mobility approach but your […]

January 23, 2014

SECURITY

Security Realities of IoT (Internet of Things)

2 min read

Are you a security professional or IT professional just resolving the security issues with BYOD (bring-your-own-device)? Watch out, BYOD was a precursor or warm up exercise to the tsunami just hitting your shores now. The SANS Institute just completed a survey on the security viewpoints on IoT, predominantly with security and IT professionals. 78% of […]