{"id":53633,"date":"2023-09-12T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3706513\/cisco-software-targets-enterprise-cloud-security-risk-assessment.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2023-09-12T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:14:00","slug":"cisco-software-targets-enterprise-cloud-security-risk-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cisco-software-targets-enterprise-cloud-security-risk-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco software targets enterprise cloud security, risk assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cisco is adding a security module to its observability platform that promises to help enterprises assess threat risks and protect cloud-based resources.<\/p>\n

The Cisco Secure Application module, available now, is part of the vendor\u2019s Full Stack Observability (FSO) platform, which is designed to correlate data from application, networking, infrastructure, security, and cloud domains to make it easier for customers to spot anomalies, preempt and address performance problems, and improve threat mitigation.<\/p>\n

FSO is designed to make intelligent use of metrics, events, logs and traces. With it, organizations can consolidate to fewer tools, collect data from any source, correlate information, and enable AI-driven analysis to predict and prevent problems, Cisco said at the FSO launch event<\/a> in June.  <\/p>\n

Secure Application can combine data from multiple sources to generate a business risk score for applications or services that have a likelihood of exploitation and attacks. It\u2019s designed to gauge the seriousness of vulnerabilities and prioritize which are most pressing. It gathers data from Cisco\u2019s Kenna Risk Meter, business transaction details from Cisco AppDynamics, API details from its Panoptica software, and threat intelligence data from Talos, its security-research arm, according to Carlos Pereira, chief architect of the strategy, incubation & applications group at Cisco.<\/p>\n

The module then works with another FSO module \u2013 Cloud Native Application Observability for application performance management \u2013 to help customers ensure apps are acting in alignment with end-user expectations. It offers indicators of the health and status of applications inside cloud-native elements such as containers, microservices, orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Pereira said.<\/p>\n

The idea is to help organizations more effectively secure cloud-native applications based on real-time vulnerability analytics and business risk observability, Pereira said.<\/p>\n