Stop playing whack-a-mole and put threats to rest with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud

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I was recently able to grab some time with a Cisco customer to hear about their experience with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud, a SaaS-based Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution. Aspire Technology Partners, a Managed Security Service Provider, explained their use of the product for one of its customers...

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Cisco Secure Cloud Architecture for AWS

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More and more customers are deploying workloads and applications in Amazon Web Service (AWS). AWS provides a flexible, reliable, secure, easy to use, scalable and high-performance environment for workloads and applications. AWS recommends three-tier architecture for web applications. These tiers are separated to perform various functions independently. Multilayer...

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SaaS-delivered Encrypted Traffic Analytics with Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud

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We’ve reached an interesting turning point for encrypted traffic. Gartner predicted that 80% of web traffic would be encrypted by 2019. Sure enough, this prediction came true. Last year, the team at Let’s Encrypt, an organization that helps enable encryption for websites, cited that 80% of web traffic...

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Using Amazon Web Services? Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud has all your security needs covered

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Like many consumers of public cloud infrastructure services, organizations that run workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS) face an array of security challenges that span from traditional threat vectors to the exploitation of more abstract workloads and entry points into the infrastructure. This week at AWS re:Inforce, a...

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Security Analytics and Logging: Supercharging FirePower with Stealthwatch

When we consider network threat detection, most of us immediately think of signature and rule-based intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPSs). However, it is a little discussed fact that the very first intrusion detection systems, built back in the ‘80s, were actually based on anomaly detection! Those pioneers...

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Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud and Microsoft Azure: reliable cloud infrastructure meets comprehensive cloud security

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Isn’t it great when the enterprise technology solutions you use to achieve various business outcomes partner and work seamlessly with each other? Cisco and Microsoft have done just that to provide you with a scalable and high-performance cloud infrastructure along with easy and effective cloud security. In 10...

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How Stealthwatch Cloud protects against the most critical Kubernetes vulnerability to-date, CVE-2018-1002105

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The increasing popularity of traditional cloud computing technologies such as server-less, on-demand compute and containerized environments has made technologies like Kubernetes part of our daily vernacular as it relates to running our applications and workloads. Kubernetes solves many of the problems with managing containers at-scale. Automation, orchestration, elasticity...

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Automated Policy & Segmentation Violation Alerting with Stealthwatch Cloud

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Stealthwatch Cloud is best known for network behavioral anomaly detection and entity modeling, but the level network visibility value it provides far exceeds these two capabilities. The underlying traffic dataset provides an incredibly accurate recording for every network conversation that has transpired throughout your global network.  This includes...

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The Role of Visibility in SecOps

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The bad guys aren’t going away.  In fact, they are getting smart, more creative, and just as determined to wreak havoc for profit as they have ever been.  The good news is Security solutions and methodologies are getting better.  Next Generation Firewalls, Malware Protection, and Access Control are...

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Deploying Stealthwatch Cloud in a Google GKE Kubernetes Cluster

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Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud has the unique ability to provide an unprecedented level of visibility and security analytic capabilities within a Kubernetes cluster. It really doesn’t matter where the cluster resides, whether on-premise or in any public cloud environment. Stealthwatch Cloud deploys as a daemonset via a yaml file...

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