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Whether you need to support employee “bring-your-own-device” (BYOD) to work practices, or provide more secure access to your data center resources, the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) meets your needs. It helps you reliably enforce compliance, enhance infrastructure security, and streamline service operations. Cisco ISE is a context-aware, identity-based platform that gathers real-time information from [...]

Mobile Device Managment (MDM) of ZenPrise’s Product Stack.  Users carry your enterprise in their pocket. They use their smartphones and tablets to access the corporate network, business applications, and your organization’s crown jewels: your enterprise data. That’s risky. What if they log into your network over an insecure network? Or lose their device? Or download [...]

Challenges Any government agency, whether it is a civilian, defense or intelligence agency, depends on information technology to help support data integrity, reduce mission risk and ensure the confidentiality and availability of information. In response to these needs, NIST published its Risk Management Framework (RMF) as part of the NIST publication 800-37 (updated February 2010). [...]

Protect you IT Infrastructure The nature of security threats has changed. The newest security threats are not detectable by rule and signature based systems or traditional Security Information and Event Management systems (SIEM). SIEMs uses a ‘data-reduction’ strategy of collection time normalization, data storage with limited search capabilities, and uses a subset of the collected [...]

This PDF describes the fundamental concepts associated with assessing information security risk within an organization including: (i) a high-level overview of the risk management process and the role risk assessments play in that process; (ii) the basic concepts used in conducting risk assessments; and (iii) how risk assessments can be applied across the organization’s risk [...]

A quick view of how the V1000 product fits and how its deployed.

The Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall is a virtual security appliance that provides consistent, enterprise-class security for private and public clouds. Scheduled to release in the first half of 2012, the Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall will employ mainstream, proven Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) security technology that has been optimized for virtual and cloud environments. [...]

Rapid 7 purchased the MetaSploit Project in 2009 – Think like Snort with SourceFire.  They just announced some updated products – to include the pro edition.  Also they just raised another round of Capital a few weeks ago.  This will seat them as a contender against the big 3 – RSA, Symantec and McAfee.   [...]

HIGHLIGHTS of Report o    Both web-based and app-based threats are increasing in prevalence and sophistication. o    Android users are two and a half times as likely to encounter malware today than 6 months ago and three out of ten Android owners are likely to encounter a web- based threat on their device each year. o    [...]

IBM to Acquire Q1 Labs to Drive Greater Security Intelligence IBM Creates New Security Division with World’s Most Comprehensive Portfolio; Q1 Labs’ Analytics to Advance IBM’s Security Products and Services Offerings ARMONK, N.Y. , Oct. 4, 2011  /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Massachusetts [...]