Faced with an ever-changing threat landscape and growing cybersecurity skills gap, organizations must rethink their security strategies to stay ahead of the curve. Ciscoleader in enterprise security and networking, has unveiled a series of groundbreaking innovations within its Cisco Security Cloud, enabling businesses to protect their applications, devices, users and data with unparalleled efficiency and agility.
Advancing the Vision of the Security Operations Center (SOC) of the Future
Cisco’s strategic acquisition of Splunk and the integration of their platforms are driving transformative change in security operations. By harmoniously integrating Cisco Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES)Organizations can now leverage the strengths of both solutions to create a more comprehensive defense strategy, improving their digital resilience.
Key advances include:
- Extensive XDR integration and threat detection: Cisco XDR’s high-fidelity alerts and detections, designed to identify the most common attacks like ransomware and lateral movement, are now seamlessly integrated into Splunk ES, accelerating investigations and remediation.
- Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence: A revolutionary solution for the SOC of the future, designed to revolutionize proactive risk mitigation through continuous asset discovery and compliance monitoring.
- Cisco AI Assistant for Security in XDR: The Unified Cisco AI Assistant is now available in Cisco automated workflows.
Protecting against unknown vulnerabilities with Cisco Hypershield
In today’s threat landscape, the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation is shrinking, and defending against increasingly sophisticated and complex threats targeting data centers is beyond human scale. Cisco Hypershield, a revolutionary approach to securing data centers and clouds, now introduces capabilities to detect and block attacks from unknown vulnerabilities within runtime workloads. Suspicious workloads can be isolated to limit the vulnerability’s blast radius.
Designed and built with AI in mind from the start, Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices, and data across public and private data centers, clouds, and physical locations, enabling organizations to achieve security outcomes beyond what is possible with effort alone humans.
Ensuring continuous identity security for an uninterrupted user experience
As identity-based attacks continue to rise, security solutions must evolve beyond simply checking whether a user can access an application. They must constantly evaluate whether a user should being able to perform a given action, while providing a smooth user experience.
Building on the recent launch of Cisco Identity IntelligenceCisco integrates robust anti-phishing capabilities into Duo to realize his vision of Continuous identity security – stop identity-based attacks while providing a seamless user experience.
Key features include:
- Duo Passport: Minimize disruptive authentication requests to provide uninterrupted access to everything your employees need without compromising security.
- Cisco Identity Intelligence in Duo: Leverage powerful AI-driven analytics to strengthen the defense of your workforce’s identity infrastructure, and assess and respond to identity risks before, during, and after login.
Conclusion
Cisco’s unwavering commitment to innovation and strategic acquisitions has positioned the company as a pioneer in the cybersecurity landscape. By seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technologies, harnessing the power of AI, and delivering a seamless user experience, Cisco Security Cloud is redefining the future of enterprise security, enabling organizations to stay ahead of the curve on the evolving threat landscape.
As Cisco continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible in cybersecurity, businesses can trust the company’s proven track record of protecting the world’s largest companies, including 100% of the Fortune 100.
