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Cisco Secure Firewall Garners a ‘Hat-Trick’

Cisco Security

Along similar lines, Cisco Secure Firewall celebrates three scores in 2021: Cisco was the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. The team would present a bowler with a hat to celebrate the achievement.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. But this hasn’t done the trick.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for leveraging hardware to shore up security — via a co-processor

The Last Watchdog

Security remains an added expense that isn’t easy to market, especially when third-party software solutions have been so widely adopted. The good news is, artificial intelligence is here and is showing great promise to deliver what the market needs, that is, pre-emptive and proactive threat detection.

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Cisco to Acquire Splunk for $28 Billion

eSecurity Planet

In a blockbuster deal that could shake up the cybersecurity market, Cisco announced this morning that it will acquire Splunk for $28 billion. Why Cisco and Splunk Are a Match Splunk was an early mover in the market for cloud SIEM solutions, which gave it a strong early advantage.

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How to Build an Integrated Security Posture Using XDR

Cisco Security

The solution: extended threat detection and response (XDR). This security approach helps to reduce incident response time by accelerating threat detection and automating organizations’ responses across their cloud deployments, applications, and other IT assets. So, how can organizations proceed?

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NDR unveiled as essential when complying with the Executive Order

Cisco Security

As organizations look to build compliance and improve the early detection of vulnerabilities and incidents by employing “all appropriate resources and authorities,” as stated in Section 7(a), beyond EDR, there is room for interpretation on how to meet this executive declaration. See figure 1].

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MY TAKE: ‘Perimeter-less’ computing requires cyber defenses to extend deeper, further forward

The Last Watchdog

I came to this conclusion after meeting with Oliver Schuermann, Juniper’s senior director of enterprise marketing. Juniper gathers threat feeds via a security framework, called SecIntl , that runs off servers tied together by Juniper equipment deployed globally in corporate networks.