You WANT to Automate! But Where to Start? You want to automate but not sure where to start or what tools to use or even what processes can be automated and if the thing you want to automate is even automatable. Does it offer an API? If it...
Friday, 29 December 2017
Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Thank You Cisco ISR G2 2900 and 3900 Series Routers
Over the past 9 years, the Integrated Services Router (ISR) G2 router portfolio has helped tens of thousands of Enterprise and Service Provider customers build, secure, grow, and transform their businesses. It has been the most successful router product line in the history of branch networking. ...
Saturday, 23 December 2017
Introducing executive dashboards in CTA
No security risk assessment is complete without the executive summary section. Something that can answer the high level questions security teams get asked including “how secure are we?”, “what threats are affecting our network today?” and “how healthy is our network?” We have recently revamped the Cognitive Threat...
Monday, 18 December 2017
Malware stealing gigabytes of your data as seen by Cognitive Threat Analytics
Overview Recently, about 50 users across 20 companies were alarmed by the Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) about a malware that exfiltrates gigabytes of data from their computers. An example of such CTA detection: ...
Friday, 15 December 2017
Cisco & MapR set a Software Defined Storage World Record
66 years in the making! It sounds like a long time, but first we had to wait for a few milestones to precede us: ◈ 1951 – UNIVAC pioneers use of magnetic tape for storage ◈ 1993 – Severe Tire Damage is the first band to live stream...
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Analyzing Network Traffic with Encrypted Traffic Analytics
Today, knowing who is using your network is table stakes. What’s essential is knowing how the network is being accessed, what applications are being used, when they are used and most importantly, whether or not those applications are safe enough and compliant with your organization’s policies. Independent testing...
Monday, 11 December 2017
Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic
Malware is constantly evolving and changing. One way to identify malware is by analyzing the communication that the malware performs on the network. Using machine learning, these traffic patterns can be utilized to identify malicious software. Machine learning faces two obstacles: obtaining a sufficient training set of malicious...
Friday, 8 December 2017
The Race is On: Is Your Network 5G Ready?
The growing 5G momentum promises tremendous commercial opportunities for service providers, with estimates that the global 5G market will be worth US$12.3 trillion by 2035. To pursue these new untapped opportunities, service providers need to ramp up their network capabilities to support future 5G services. As we move...
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Cognitive Threat Analytics: Turn Your Proxy Into Security Device
Some of us still intuitively believe that our extensively safeguarded corporate networks are safe from the risks we are exposed to when connecting directly to public Internet. Yet, evidence suggests that most companies now operate with significant persistent malware present in the network. At the same time, malware...
Monday, 4 December 2017
CMS Brute Force Attacks Are Still a Threat
Brute force attacks have existed long before the Internet. As a cryptanalytic attack, it started being used as an attempt to access encrypted data when there were no other options available. With the rise of the Internet, this type of attack was quickly adopted. In a nutshell, a...
Friday, 1 December 2017
The Cisco ASR 9000 – Timeless Versatility for Future Growth
Cisco’s Aggregation Service Router 9000 (ASR 9k) has evolved into the cloud-scale, multi-service platform offering unprecedented flexibility, scale, programmability and security for Service Providers today. When the ASR 9k was first announced in November 2008, it was a 6-slot and a 10-slot chassis—each of them capable of handling...
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