With a tidal wave of vulnerabilities out there and brand-new vulnerabilities coming out daily, security teams have a lot to handle. Addressing every single vulnerability is nearly impossible and prioritizing them is no easy task either since it’s difficult to effectively focus on the small number of vulnerabilities that matter most to your organization. Moreover, the shift to … [Read more...] about Announcing Risk-Based Endpoint Security with Cisco Secure Endpoint and Kenna Security
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Secure your Endpoints and Turbocharge your Security Operations with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Keeping up with the ever-changing threat landscape is hard, with new attacks such as ransomware, fileless malware, and other advanced threats emerging every day. Protecting your endpoints becomes even more difficult when your security environment consists of multiple, disparate solutions, making it too complex to effectively manage. Protecting your endpoints can also seem … [Read more...] about Secure your Endpoints and Turbocharge your Security Operations with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Forrester names Elastic a Strong Performer in the Endpoint Detection and Response Wave
Security at scaleForrester stated in the EDR Wave that “Threat hunters can search data and visualize it with graphs and charts, and can also schedule queries.” The analyst firm also mentioned that “Elastic is best suited for security teams with a depth of knowledge that want a flexible offering with features of SIEM and EDR.” Elastic purposefully combined SIEM and EDR so that … [Read more...] about Forrester names Elastic a Strong Performer in the Endpoint Detection and Response Wave
Cisco Secure Endpoint Strikes Balance for School IT Teams
Education networks are a student data hub – everything from school records, social security numbers, to health records is available. Unfortunately, this data is a natural target for threat actors seeking to land and expand prized PII for their own goals. To ensure data protection, Education IT and security operation teams need to guard against ransomware and other threats. … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Endpoint Strikes Balance for School IT Teams
Eliminate Legacy Endpoint Security Blind Spots
Threat actors are continuously honing their skills to find new ways to penetrate networks, disrupt business-critical systems and steal confidential data. In the early days of the internet, adversaries used file-based malware to carry out attacks, and it was relatively easy to stop them with signature-based defenses. Modern threat actors have a much wider variety of tactics, … [Read more...] about Eliminate Legacy Endpoint Security Blind Spots
Cisco Secure Endpoint goes Pro
Cyberattacks hit organizations every day. Attackers continue to develop new tactics that evade front line defenses. Ransomware is also proliferating, with the number of successful, and expensive, ransomware attacks increasing year over year. And as hybrid work becomes the new normal, knowledge workers and their endpoints are increasingly exposed to threats beyond the reach of … [Read more...] about Cisco Secure Endpoint goes Pro
Defending Against Log4j Exploits with Cisco Secure Endpoint
The Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) is on the mind of nearly every cybersecurity and IT team right now because of its widespread usage, ease of exploitation, and broad attack surface. This blog provides an overview of how Cisco Secure Endpoint helps protect your environment from attackers exploiting this vulnerability. What You Need to Know About Log4j On Thursday, … [Read more...] about Defending Against Log4j Exploits with Cisco Secure Endpoint
Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Two: Endpoint Detections
In part one of this series we introduced the notion of risk-based extended detection with SecureX – the idea that a user can prioritise detections into incidents based on their idea of what constitutes risk in their environments and then extend those detections with enrichments from other products. In subsequent posts we are diving deeper into different Cisco Secure detection … [Read more...] about Relevant and Extended Detection with SecureX, Part Two: Endpoint Detections
Cisco Bolsters Endpoint Security to Stop Threats with Simple, Unified Defense
Cyberattacks hit businesses every day. Ransomware is especially problematic, with the number of successful ransomware attacks increasing Year Over Year (YoY). Clearly, organizations need to defend against ransomware if they are going to avoid its costly damages. Cisco Secure Endpoint protects against cyberattacks with a cloud-delivered, single agent solution. It is the only … [Read more...] about Cisco Bolsters Endpoint Security to Stop Threats with Simple, Unified Defense
Enabling Zero Trust on the Endpoint
Things are changing in the world of endpoint security. Part of this change has to do with how organizations are digitally transforming themselves to accommodate the abrupt shift to remote work in 2020. In March of that year, for instance, Gartner revealed that 88% of business organizations around the world had encouraged their employees to work from home due to the … [Read more...] about Enabling Zero Trust on the Endpoint