Ransomware. Certainly not a new form of cybercrime, but one that has dominated mainstream headlines in recent months. High-profile cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and sectors in the global economy, such as government agencies, a major U.S. fuel pipeline, and one of the world’s largest meat processing plants have put a giant spotlight on ransomware. Ransomware has … [Read more...] about Beef up your ransomware defense with Cisco Secure Choice
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Top Tips for Ransomware Defense
Ransomware is wreaking havoc. What can we do? Ransomware is making its way outside the cybersecurity space. It’s popping up everywhere from the nightly news to the G7 Summit. Indeed ransomware has entered the mainstream as threat actors increasingly focus their attention on critical infrastructure providers that can’t afford any downtime or disruption from a cyber incident – … [Read more...] about Top Tips for Ransomware Defense
Secure and Save with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual
Simultaneously secure and save with new 7.0 features and subscription models Organizations rely on Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (formerly FTDv/NGFWv), Cisco’s proven network firewall with IPS, URL filtering, and malware defense that protects virtualized environments in private and public clouds. In addition to the improved IPS performance with Snort 3 and the … [Read more...] about Secure and Save with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual
Cisco Supports Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual on Nutanix AHV
Your network infrastructure stack is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Some people prefer only peanut butter, some only jelly, but most people prefer a little bit of both. In today’s multi-cloud and application environments, most would say they prefer a hybrid cloud infrastructure, the perfect balance of resources in public and private cloud, giving your organization the … [Read more...] about Cisco Supports Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual on Nutanix AHV
Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual now supported on Cisco HyperFlex
With today’s multi-cloud and modern application environments, security is more complex than ever before. With the Cisco Secure platform approach, we are helping you take steps to achieve radically simplified security across your organization. Today, we are driving simplified security to your hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), delivering support for Cisco Secure Firewall … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual now supported on Cisco HyperFlex
Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions
Researchers have disclosed significant security weaknesses in popular software applications that could be abused to deactivate their protections and take control of allow-listed applications to perform nefarious operations on behalf of the malware to defeat anti-ransomware defenses. The twin attacks, detailed by academics from the University of Luxembourg and the University of … [Read more...] about Malware Can Use This Trick to Bypass Ransomware Defense in Antivirus Solutions
North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware
A prolific North Korean state-sponsored hacking group has been tied to a new ongoing espionage campaign aimed at exfiltrating sensitive information from organizations in the defense industry. Attributing the attacks with high confidence to the Lazarus Group, the new findings from Kaspersky signal an expansion of the APT actor's tactics by going beyond the usual gamut of … [Read more...] about North Korean Hackers Targeting Defense Firms with ThreatNeedle Malware
Cloud Mailbox Defense: Customers Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success
Simplicity. This was the key fundamental principle of Cloud Mailbox Defense that we introduced in our earlier blogs. So how did the first customers and partners to try Cloud Mailbox Defense (CMD) think we did? “We have tested dozens of solutions. Cloud Mailbox Defense is the first solution that is ‘as easy as it claims to be’. There are no hidden architecture requirements, no … [Read more...] about Cloud Mailbox Defense: Customers Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success
Cloud Mailbox Defense: Customers Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success
Simplicity. This was the key fundamental principle of Cloud Mailbox Defense that we introduced in our earlier blogs. So how did the first customers and partners to try Cloud Mailbox Defense (CMD) think we did? “We have tested dozens of solutions. Cloud Mailbox Defense is the first solution that is ‘as easy as it claims to be’. There are no hidden architecture requirements, no … [Read more...] about Cloud Mailbox Defense: Customers Share the Product Highlights Driving Their Success
Defense in Diversity – Cisco Blogs
Security has always claimed that “Defense in Depth” is the dominant strategy. As we enter the world of automated workloads at internet-scale, it has become clear that it is in fact “Defense in Diversity” that wins over depth. When dealing with large-scale automated attacks, iteration over the same defense a million times is cheap. However, attacking a million defenses that are … [Read more...] about Defense in Diversity – Cisco Blogs