Cisco Secure: Supporting NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Extending the alignment to include more Cisco products Why should you care? With so many security frameworks, it can be difficult to know where to start from. While many organizations are challenged with managing and improving their cybersecurity programs against the dynamic threat landscape, it’s not easy to pick one framework over another. So where...

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Announcing SecureX Academy

SecureX has changed the way our customers do the work of securing their environments. We have been able to bring together the Cisco Secure portfolio, 3rd party tools and data sources, and a robust platform architecture into which these technologies can be plugged, in a way that saves organizations time and money and increases their security, using just...

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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...

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Introducing our new Senior CISO Advisor, Bruce Brody

Bruce Brody I’m delighted to announce the latest member of my CISO Advisors team, Bruce Brody.  Bruce  joins us with three decades of proven security leadership under his belt. He was the first executive-level CISO at the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Energy, and has had more recent success as CISO at Cubic Corporation and DRS Technologies. Bruce’s...

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SecureX threat response Turnkey Integrations

SecureX turns one year old next month. It has been quite a journey from the first announcement at RSA Conference 2020, when there was one 3rd party integration (VirusTotal), to the release of SecureX the summer of 2020 with a large ecosystem. When SecureX was launched, we had several turnkey partner integrations into SecureX, like the Splunk add-on...

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Back to the Future of Firewall

Read Me First As a network and workload security strategy leader, I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of the good old network firewall. Everyone has been using and abusing the “next-generation” qualifier to describe any modern firewall product for far too long, so it is appropriate to drop this extraneous prefix and talk about what truly...

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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...

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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,...

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Why Every Midsize Business Needs a Security Strategy

When midsize businesses talk about cybersecurity, it’s usually in the context of a problem to solve. (Specifically, IT’s problem to solve.) But for small and midsize businesses especially, security can’t just be a concern of IT. When looked at holistically, a strong security strategy can be an asset that helps companies reach their overall business...

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TrustSec Policy Analytics – Part Two: Policy Visualization

In Part One of the Cisco TrustSec Policy Analytics blog series, Samuel Brown addressed some of the challenges related to designing group-based security policies and introduced one of the new feature sets of Cisco Secure Network Analytics – TrustSec Analytics reports. In this blog, we’ll dive a little bit deeper into the challenges associated with designing...

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