Threat Intelligence in SecureX: Fast, Free, or Easy (pick any three)

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SecureX is Cisco’s free, acronym-defying security platform. (“Is it XDR? Is it SOAR? Does it solve the same problems as a SIEM? As a TIP?” “Yes.”) From the very beginning, one of the pillars of SecureX was the ability to consume and operationalize your local security context alongside...

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Cisco Secure Firewall insertion using Cisco cAPIC in Azure

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In today’s world, enterprises are undergoing a transition to innovate rapidly, keep up with the competition, and increase application agility to meet ever-changing customer demands. To achieve these goals, they often choose the hybrid cloud infrastructure approach, choosing different infrastructure environments to deploy different types of applications. Some...

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Balancing Safety and Security During a Year of Remote Working

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I have not been inside an office building for 12 months. A sentence I did not imagine writing anytime soon. Last February, everything changed. And when we pause to reflect, we have to consider that, of the many dramatic impacts to our lives, to society, and the world,...

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Introducing Stealthwatch product updates for enhanced network detection and response

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We are very excited to announce new features of Cisco Stealthwatch! With release 7.3.0, we are announcing significant enhancements for the Stealthwatch Administrator and the Security Analyst to detect and respond to threats faster and manage the tool more efficiently. Automated Response updates Release 7.3, introduces automated response...

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The Transformation of Software Testing

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Traditional development and testing cycles have been a limiting factor for increasing the speed of creating and releasing new functionality as well as improving the quality of final releases. When much of a development team’s time is taken up with the looping, iterative cycle of design-develop-test-debug, a lot...

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Umbrella with SecureX built-in: Coordinated Protection

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Cybercriminals have been refining their strategies and tactics for over twenty years and attacks have been getting more sophisticated. A successful cyberattack often involves a multi-step, coordinated effort. Research on successful breaches shows that hackers are very thorough with the information they collect and the comprehensive plans they...

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Secure and Compliant Collaboration with Webex Teams

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Easy, Secure Collaboration In today’s modern and digital workplaces, teamwork transcends organizational and functional boundaries. Effective, secure, and compliant collaboration with your stakeholders, partners and customers is paramount to improving productivity. Compliance, administration security controls and policies vary greatly across organizations and industry verticals. For any modern collaboration...

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Threats with Escalating Impact: Announcing the Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity Report

It’s time again for our Midyear Cybersecurity Report (MCR), which offers updates on the security research and insights revealed in the recent Annual Cybersecurity Report. The unsettling news at this halfway point in the year is that the bad actors are adding new and sophisticated spins to their...

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Miercom Report: Secured Network Infrastructure

Everyday networks are being hammered with multiple types of threats, coming from a variety of sources. To make matters worse, these threats often use sophisticated techniques to be undetected by traditional security methods. Proliferation of IoT devices increase these risks as most IoT devices often use non-standard protocols,...

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The 5 Critical Components of a Secure Store

We discussed how the Cisco SAFE methodology can help you to implement a reliable security solution for your store. This approach can help you define and address each threat to the retail branch with corresponding security capabilities, architectures, and designs – guiding you to a complete security solution...

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