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Cisco jumps into SSE arena, boosts application security

Cisco this week took the wraps off a security service edge (SSE) offering that aims to help enterprises securely connect growing edge resources, including cloud, private and SAAS applications.Along with the SSE package, the vendor made two additional application security-related announcements at its Cisco Live! customer event. It unveiled Cisco Multicloud Defense, which is a new service designed to protect cloud service workloads, and it upgraded Panoptica, its cloud-native security application development software.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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Networkworld

Cisco aims for AI-first security with Armorblox buy

Cisco plans to buy Armorblox, a six-year-old AI vendor, to help create “an AI-first Security Cloud.”“Leveraging Armorblox’s use of predictive and Generative AI across our portfolio, we will change the way our customers understand and interact with their security control points,” wrote Raj Chopra senior vice president and chief product officer for Cisco Security in a blog announcing the pending acquistion.While securing email was Armorblox’s first application of its AI techniques, they might also be applied to attack prediction, rapid threat detection, and efficient policy enforcement, Chopra wrote. “Through this acquisition though, we see many exciting broad security use cases and possibilities to unlock.”To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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Networkworld

Cisco wants you to buy now, pay later

Cisco today announced a new finance program that encourages customers to buy products and services now without having to start paying for them till 2024.Specifically the Cisco Capital Business Acceleration Program will let customers purchasing Cisco products before July 29, 2023, and defer all payments until 2024. Payments deferred until 2024 would be based on the total amount financed and contract terms, the vendor stated.Cisco said another flexible payment option is available for its partners to let their customers buy Cisco technology today, and pay later, the vendor said in a statement.The entirety of Cisco’s portfolio is eligible for the program, including hardware, software, and services, as well as select partner services and third-party hardware. In addition the Cisco Refresh portfolio of Cisco certified remanufactured products is also eligible for organizations that want to acquire used gear, the vendor stated.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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Networkworld

Your decommissioned routers could be a security disaster

Here’s bad news: It’s easy to buy used enterprise routers that haven’t been decommissioned properly and that still contain data about the organizations they were once connected to, including IPsec credentials, application lists, and cryptographic keys.“This leaves critical and sensitive configuration data from the original owner or operatoraccessible to the purchaser and open to abuse,” according to a white paper by Cameron Camp, security researcher, and Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist, for security firm Eset (See: Discarded, not destroyed: Old routers reveal corporate secrets).To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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Microsoft Secure

Healthy security habits to fight credential breaches: Cyberattack Series

This is the second in an ongoing series exploring some of the most notable cases of the Microsoft Incident Response Team. In this story, we’ll explore how organizations can adopt a defense-in-depth security posture to help protect against credential breaches and ransomware attacks.
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Microsoft Secure

Microsoft announces the 2023 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards winners

At the fourth annual Microsoft Security Excellence Awards, we recognized outstanding contributions from Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) members and celebrated the next generation of security defenders. See all the finalists and winners.
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