EDITOR’S QUESTION
Scott Manson
Cyber Security Leader for
Middle East and Turkey, Cisco
A secure network is a powerful
tool for achieving growth and
stability. Safeguarding your business
and customer data is critical
for protecting your employees,
customers, and reputation in an
environment built on trust. Yet
maintaining the integrity of your
network is difficult to accomplish
as you expand your capabilities.
Furthermore, changing business
models designed around mobility
and cloud resources add new layers
of intricacy to corporate networks.
This creates a dynamic threat
landscape that evolves quickly to find
gaps in protection. An increasingly
complex market for information
security leads to fragmented security
efforts. To innovate and disrupt, your
business needs a balanced security
solution capable of providing both
proactive protection and adaptable
expansion.
It is no longer a matter of if, but
when, attackers will break into your
network. They’ll use zero-day attacks,
stolen access credentials, infected
mobile devices, a vulnerable business
partner, or other tactics. Hence,
the scope of IT security analytics
is broad. In an ideal world, threat
intelligence, provided in advance,
would prevent IT security incidents
from occurring in the first place. The
network connects everything. It is the
only thing that can see everything.
And if you can see everything you
have a chance of securing it.
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We at Cisco believe that the need
for security intelligence is “before,
during and after” an incident. Data
analytics can map what normal
daily behaviour looks like and flag
anomalies enabling organisations
to derive deeper intelligence from
their datasets. When applied to
cybersecurity, the actionable insights
provided should allow them to detect
and stop potential breaches faster
and more efficiently. This is probably
the decisive advantage cyber
defenders need so as to prevail over
increasingly determined attackers.
Through Cisco’s Talos – the
industry’s premier Threat Intelligence
organization that supports all of
Cisco’s security portfolio - detecting
and preventing threats that target
Cisco customers is its job, and
given Cisco’s security footprint and
breadth of product portfolio we can
engage those threats from Cloud to
Core. Talos detects and correlates
threats in real time using the largest
threat detection network in the
world spanning web requests, emails,
malware samples, open source
data sets, endpoint intelligence,
and network intrusions. The elite
cybersecurity experts in Talos work
to proactively discover, assess, and
respond to the latest trends in
hacking activities, intrusion attempts,
malware, and vulnerabilities with new
detection and prevention content for
all Cisco’s security products to better
protect your organization.
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