Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) provides threat intelligence and reputation-based security across Cisco security products through three main components: Cisco SensorBase for global threat data collection, the Threat Operations Center for analysis and rule/signature development, and dynamic updates of security rules/data to Cisco devices. SIO collects data from over 700,000 Cisco security devices and other sources to develop reputation scores and rules that power features like global correlation and reputation-based filtering across Cisco firewalls, IPS, email and web security products.
SOC presentation- Building a Security Operations CenterMichael Nickle
Presentation I used to give on the topic of using a SIM/SIEM to unify the information stream flowing into the SOC. This piece of collateral was used to help close the largest SIEM deal (Product and services) that my employer achieved with this product line.
State of Security Operations 2016 report of capabilities and maturity of cybe...at MicroFocus Italy ❖✔
As businesses continue to adopt new cloud and mobile functionality rapidly, we find the
edges of the network even more blurred, and our definitions of data ownership and breach
responsibility continue to evolve. Staffing and training continue to be the foremost challenge
of the modern SOC. This is paving the way to hybrid staffing models and hybrid infrastructures
that require less in-house expertise. As a result, highly skilled security team members can then
be utilized for a more specialized hunt and analytics-focused work.
There is no question this year has been both an exciting and challenging time to be in the field
of cyber security. On one hand, it is disheartening to see the continued decline in the maturity
and effectiveness of security operations, while, on the other, I know that we are in the middle
of an exciting and transformative change in our field. You can feel it. We must go where the
data leads us, and we believe that is to widen our definition of security operations to leverage
analytics, data science, Big Data, and shared intelligence to become more effective in protecting
today’s digital enterprise.
Optimizing Security Operations: 5 Keys to SuccessSirius
Organizations are suffering from cyber fatigue, with too many alerts, too many technologies, and not enough people. Many security operations center (SOC) teams are underskilled and overworked, making it extremely difficult to streamline operations and decrease the time it takes to detect and remediate security incidents.
Addressing these challenges requires a shift in the tactics and strategies deployed in SOCs. But building an effective SOC is hard; many companies struggle first with implementation and then with figuring out how to take their security operations to the next level.
Read to learn:
--Advantages and disadvantages of different SOC models
--Tips for leveraging advanced analytics tools
--Best practices for incorporating automation and orchestration
--How to boost incident response capabilities, and measure your efforts
--How the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls can help you establish a strong foundation
Start building your roadmap to a next-generation SOC.
SOC presentation- Building a Security Operations CenterMichael Nickle
Presentation I used to give on the topic of using a SIM/SIEM to unify the information stream flowing into the SOC. This piece of collateral was used to help close the largest SIEM deal (Product and services) that my employer achieved with this product line.
State of Security Operations 2016 report of capabilities and maturity of cybe...at MicroFocus Italy ❖✔
As businesses continue to adopt new cloud and mobile functionality rapidly, we find the
edges of the network even more blurred, and our definitions of data ownership and breach
responsibility continue to evolve. Staffing and training continue to be the foremost challenge
of the modern SOC. This is paving the way to hybrid staffing models and hybrid infrastructures
that require less in-house expertise. As a result, highly skilled security team members can then
be utilized for a more specialized hunt and analytics-focused work.
There is no question this year has been both an exciting and challenging time to be in the field
of cyber security. On one hand, it is disheartening to see the continued decline in the maturity
and effectiveness of security operations, while, on the other, I know that we are in the middle
of an exciting and transformative change in our field. You can feel it. We must go where the
data leads us, and we believe that is to widen our definition of security operations to leverage
analytics, data science, Big Data, and shared intelligence to become more effective in protecting
today’s digital enterprise.
Optimizing Security Operations: 5 Keys to SuccessSirius
Organizations are suffering from cyber fatigue, with too many alerts, too many technologies, and not enough people. Many security operations center (SOC) teams are underskilled and overworked, making it extremely difficult to streamline operations and decrease the time it takes to detect and remediate security incidents.
Addressing these challenges requires a shift in the tactics and strategies deployed in SOCs. But building an effective SOC is hard; many companies struggle first with implementation and then with figuring out how to take their security operations to the next level.
Read to learn:
--Advantages and disadvantages of different SOC models
--Tips for leveraging advanced analytics tools
--Best practices for incorporating automation and orchestration
--How to boost incident response capabilities, and measure your efforts
--How the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and CIS Controls can help you establish a strong foundation
Start building your roadmap to a next-generation SOC.
Manoj purandare - Stratergy towards an Effective Security Operations Centre -...Manoj Purandare ☁
Effective Security Operations Centre SOC building - by Manoj Purandare. This article tries to give a strategy towards building am effective SOC using its 4 major points steps and 11 effective steps recipe - for Organisation's / Govt's safety and security
Cyber Security Trends
Business Concerns
Cyber Threats
The Solutions
Security Operation Center
requirement
SOC Architecture model
SOC Implementation
SOC & NOC
SOC & CSIRT
SIEM & Correlation
-----------------------------------------------------------
Definition
Gartner defines a SOC as both a team, often operating in shifts around the clock, and a facility dedicated to and organized to prevent, detect, assess and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents, and to fulfill and assess regulatory compliance. The term "cybersecurity operation center "is often used synonymously for SOC.
A network operations center (NOC) is not a SOC, which focuses on network device management rather than detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents. Coordination between the two is common, however.
A managed security service is not the same as having a SOC — although a service provider may offer services from a SOC. A managed service is a shared resource and not solely dedicated to a single organization or entity. Similarly, there is no such thing as a managed SOC.
Most of the technologies, processes and best practices that are used in a SOC are not specific to a SOC. Incident response or vulnerability management remain the same, whether delivered from a SOC or not. It is a meta-topic, involving many security domains and disciplines, and depending on the services and functions that are delivered by the SOC.
Services that often reside in a SOC are:
• Cyber security incident response
• Malware analysis
• Forensic analysis
• Threat intelligence analysis
• Risk analytics and attack path modeling
• Countermeasure implementation
• Vulnerability assessment
• Vulnerability analysis
• Penetration testing
• Remediation prioritization and coordination
• Security intelligence collection and fusion
• Security architecture design
• Security consulting
• Security awareness training
• Security audit data collection and distribution
Alternative names for SOC :
Security defense center (SDC)
Security intelligence center
Cyber security center
Threat defense center
security intelligence and operations center (SIOC)
Infrastructure Protection Centre (IPC)
مرکز عملیات امنیت
Talking about Next-Gen Security Operation Center for IDNIC+APJII as representative from IDSECCONF. People-Centric SOC requires lot of investment on human in terms of quantity and quality, unfortunately, (good) IT security people are getting rare these days. Organisation need to put their investments more on technology, as in Industry 4.0, machines are getting more advanced to support Human on doing continuous and repetitive task.
Moving from “traditional” to next-gen SOC require proper plan, thats what this talk was about.
Insight is one of the best security operation center that influences all the necessary things that reduce the advanced threats and security risk all over your company and protects your network infrastructure across the organization. https://insightmsp.co.in/soc-as-service.php
Security Management is very complex and does not limit itself to products and technologies. It is important to consider alternatives when setting up a Security Operation Center (SOC), from insight into the business plan requirements, ability and the skill set of people who will handle the SOC, the responsibilities for the team, budget and more.
Security operations center 5 security controlsAlienVault
An effective Security Operation Center provides the information necessary for organizations to efficiently detect threats and subsequently contain them. While eliminating the threats we face is an impossible goal, reducing the time it takes to respond and contain them is certainly achievable. Learn 5 security controls for an effective security operations center.
Security Operation Center (SOC) is the most sensible move in order to save your business during an attempted cyber security attack. SOC Represents the Overall Security in an organization/environment which includes Cyber, Digital & Information security and the operations center is responsible for assessing and implementing the Security Posture of an Organization. Through SOC, multiple layers of security are put in place where the objective is to protect Information valuable to an organization.
This solution overview discusses solving Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) challenges with RSA Security Analytics, which enables security analysts to be effective in protecting an organization’s digital assets and IT systems.
Manoj purandare - Stratergy towards an Effective Security Operations Centre -...Manoj Purandare ☁
Effective Security Operations Centre SOC building - by Manoj Purandare. This article tries to give a strategy towards building am effective SOC using its 4 major points steps and 11 effective steps recipe - for Organisation's / Govt's safety and security
Cyber Security Trends
Business Concerns
Cyber Threats
The Solutions
Security Operation Center
requirement
SOC Architecture model
SOC Implementation
SOC & NOC
SOC & CSIRT
SIEM & Correlation
-----------------------------------------------------------
Definition
Gartner defines a SOC as both a team, often operating in shifts around the clock, and a facility dedicated to and organized to prevent, detect, assess and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents, and to fulfill and assess regulatory compliance. The term "cybersecurity operation center "is often used synonymously for SOC.
A network operations center (NOC) is not a SOC, which focuses on network device management rather than detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents. Coordination between the two is common, however.
A managed security service is not the same as having a SOC — although a service provider may offer services from a SOC. A managed service is a shared resource and not solely dedicated to a single organization or entity. Similarly, there is no such thing as a managed SOC.
Most of the technologies, processes and best practices that are used in a SOC are not specific to a SOC. Incident response or vulnerability management remain the same, whether delivered from a SOC or not. It is a meta-topic, involving many security domains and disciplines, and depending on the services and functions that are delivered by the SOC.
Services that often reside in a SOC are:
• Cyber security incident response
• Malware analysis
• Forensic analysis
• Threat intelligence analysis
• Risk analytics and attack path modeling
• Countermeasure implementation
• Vulnerability assessment
• Vulnerability analysis
• Penetration testing
• Remediation prioritization and coordination
• Security intelligence collection and fusion
• Security architecture design
• Security consulting
• Security awareness training
• Security audit data collection and distribution
Alternative names for SOC :
Security defense center (SDC)
Security intelligence center
Cyber security center
Threat defense center
security intelligence and operations center (SIOC)
Infrastructure Protection Centre (IPC)
مرکز عملیات امنیت
Talking about Next-Gen Security Operation Center for IDNIC+APJII as representative from IDSECCONF. People-Centric SOC requires lot of investment on human in terms of quantity and quality, unfortunately, (good) IT security people are getting rare these days. Organisation need to put their investments more on technology, as in Industry 4.0, machines are getting more advanced to support Human on doing continuous and repetitive task.
Moving from “traditional” to next-gen SOC require proper plan, thats what this talk was about.
Insight is one of the best security operation center that influences all the necessary things that reduce the advanced threats and security risk all over your company and protects your network infrastructure across the organization. https://insightmsp.co.in/soc-as-service.php
Security Management is very complex and does not limit itself to products and technologies. It is important to consider alternatives when setting up a Security Operation Center (SOC), from insight into the business plan requirements, ability and the skill set of people who will handle the SOC, the responsibilities for the team, budget and more.
Security operations center 5 security controlsAlienVault
An effective Security Operation Center provides the information necessary for organizations to efficiently detect threats and subsequently contain them. While eliminating the threats we face is an impossible goal, reducing the time it takes to respond and contain them is certainly achievable. Learn 5 security controls for an effective security operations center.
Security Operation Center (SOC) is the most sensible move in order to save your business during an attempted cyber security attack. SOC Represents the Overall Security in an organization/environment which includes Cyber, Digital & Information security and the operations center is responsible for assessing and implementing the Security Posture of an Organization. Through SOC, multiple layers of security are put in place where the objective is to protect Information valuable to an organization.
This solution overview discusses solving Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) challenges with RSA Security Analytics, which enables security analysts to be effective in protecting an organization’s digital assets and IT systems.
Security Onion includes best-of-breed free and open tools including Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, the Elastic Stack and many others. We created and maintain Security
Building a Cyber Security Operations Center for SCADA/ICS EnvironmentsShah Sheikh
Abstract: Modern day cyber threats are ever increasing in sophistication and evasiveness against Process Control Networks. Organizations in the industry are facing a constant challenge to adopt modern techniques to proactively monitor the security posture within the SCADA infrastructure whilst keeping cyber attackers and threat actors at bay.
In this presentation we will cover the fundamental building blocks of building a SCADA cyber security operations center with key responsibilities such as Incident Response Management, Vulnerability and Patch Management, Secure-by-design Architecture, Security Logging and Monitoring and how such security domains drive accountability and act as a line of authority across the PCN.
[CONFidence 2016] Gaweł Mikołajczyk - Making sense out of the Security Operat...PROIDEA
As the SOC Manager with Cisco Active Threat Analytics (ATA), Gawel is responsible for building, growing and operating Cisco Managed Security Services SOC in Krakow, Poland and Tokyo, Japan.
Before that, Gawel spent half a decade in various Architect and Consulting Security roles at Cisco. He holds numerous industry certificates, including CCIE #24987, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA, C|EH and SFCE. Gawel is a frequent speaker at IT events, such as Cisco Live! Europe/Australia, PLNOG, EuroNOG, Security B-Sides, CONFidence, Cisco Connect, Cisco Expo and Cisco Forum.
Before Gawel has joined Cisco, he was a UNIX System Administrator and a Systems Engineer with one of the leading system integrators in Poland. He was also a Cisco Networking Academy Instructor. Gawel graduated from Warsaw University of Technology with degree in Telecommunications.
Maintaining Continuous Compliance with HCL BigFixHCLSoftware
The rise in security threats affecting endpoints and the changing landscape of mobile and cloud-driven work environments has created new challenges for IT teams. BigFix Compliance offers a unified endpoint management solution that provides real-time visibility and policy enforcement to safeguard complex and widely distributed IT environments. It significantly reduces the administrative burden of compliance reporting and ensures adherence to standards, helping organizations protect their endpoints and minimize attack surfaces with minimal effort.
Because many organizations don't perform security unless they have to, more than 80% of all web applications are being exposed to vulnerabilities. In comes regulation. There are a number of different industries other than financial and healthcare that deal with PII and PHI but are either not regulated at all or are regulated very loosely. This presentation will discuss the various regulations (PCI, SOX, HIPAA, etc.) and what each does to address web application security, if any, as well as the shortcomings of each. Finally, it will further address industries that need to be more strictly regulated in order to better protect personal information.
Andrew Weidenhamer, Senior Security Consultant, SecureState
Andrew Weidenhamer, Senior Security Consultant, joined SecureState in January 2008. As a former member of the Profiling Team, Andrew performed technical security assessments on a weekly basis. These assessments included Internal and External Attack and Penetration Assessments, Wireless Penetration Assessments, Web Application Security Reviews, Physical Penetration Tests, and Social Engineering Assessments.
Decrypting the security mystery with SIEM (Part 1) Zoho Corporation
Decrypting the security mystery with SIEM - Part I
1. EventLog Analyzer, your complete security arsenal
2. Sealing securityloopholes: Getting to know vulnerable ports, devices, and more.
3. Combating attacks with EventLog Analyzer
a. Mitigating brute force attacks
b. Stopping the rise of ransomware
c. Containing SQL injection attacks
4. Proactively preventing insider attacks
a. Monitoring privileged user activities
5. Securing physical, virtual, and cloud environments
6. Adhering to stringent compliance rules with the integrated compliance management
For any organization managed security services play an important role in enhancing the security posture, alerting against top vulnerabilities along with rapid and anywhere deployment.
Similar to CISCO SECURITY INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS SIO (20)
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
2. SIO AGENDA
• COMPONENTS OF SIO
• DIFFERENT REPUTATION FILTERS
• HOW SIO IMPLEMENTED
• WHERE SIO INCORPORATED
3. Cisco SIO is composed of three
parts:
•
Cisco SensorBase™, a comprehensive threat database;
•
Threat Operations Center with 500 security analysts and
•
constant dynamic updates fed to Cisco security devices.
4. Sensor Base includes:
• More than 700,000 (and growing) globally deployed Cisco intrusion
prevention system (IPS), email security, web security, firewall devices
• Cisco IntelliShield, a historical threat database of 40,000 vulnerabilities
and 3300 tuned IPS signatures
• More than 600 third-party threat intelligence sources, which track over
500 thirdparty data feeds and 100 security news feeds around the clock
More than 1000 threat collection servers process 500 GB of data a day.
The Cisco Threat Operations Center processes this global, real-time threat
intelligence and incorporates it into the security services available on Cisco
security devices.
5.
6. Email Reputation Filtering
• Cisco email security appliances retrieve reputation information in real time, as
incoming messages arrive.
• These Cisco devices query DNS text records in SensorBase and retrieve a
reputation score associated with the IP address of the sending server.
•The score can range from –10.0 for the worst email senders to +10.0 for the best.
The reputation score is based on more than 200 aggregated and weighted
parameters
7. Email Reputation Filtering
• Cisco email security appliances reject email from servers with low
scores (below –3.0.) and rate-limit senders that have medium to low
reputation scores.
• They can also white-list high reputation senders, such as IP
addresses with +9.0 scores from Fortune 1000 organizations.
• Because spam is so prevalent, most of our customers report that our
default settings block more than 90 percent of incoming message
attempts.
8. Web Reputation Filtering
• Cisco web security appliances connect to Cisco SIO every five minutes for
database updates. These rulesets contain lists of compromised web hosts as well
as information about infected URLs and pages.
• Rapid, granular scanning of each object on a requested webpage, rather than just
URLs and initial HTML requests, significantly reduces the chance of infection.
• The appliances dynamically calculate the risk of each web request and response
using reputation data to block high-risk transactions and safeguard users from
attacks such as IFrame and cross-site scripting.
•Web reputation filtering is used in conjunction with signature and behavior-based
scanners to provide much faster and stronger multi-layered web protection.
9.
10. IPS Reputation Filtering
• Cisco intrusion prevention systems connect to Cisco SIO every 30 minutes and
retrieve updated reputation data based on parameters such as whether the IP
address is a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) address, whether the IP
address has a Domain Name System (DNS) entry, and how often that information
changes
• For example, the IPS sensor may detect an event that is often but not always
associated with malicious activity. Without Global Correlation, the sensor will send
an alert about the activity, but no action is taken on the network traffic.
• With Global Correlation, however, the sensor can access a wealth of historical
data on the source of the traffic. If the reputation is low, the sensor can take direct
action and thwart the potential attack without the risk of blocking valid traffic.
• The sensor can also use reputation data to pre-filter traffic from sources with
extremely low reputations, saving processing power for additional inspection
11. Layer 4 Traffic Monitor
• Cisco Web Security Appliances include a Layer 4 Traffic Monitor, in addition to web reputation
filters and multiple malware scanning engines, which detect website malware activity.
• It scans all ports at wire speed, detecting and blocking spyware phone-home activity. By
tracking all 65,535 network ports at the network data center, the Layer 4 Traffic Monitor
effectively stops malware that attempts to proliferate through the network.
• In addition, the Layer 4 Traffic Monitor can dynamically add IP addresses of known malware
domains to its list of ports and IP addresses to detect and block.
• Using this dynamic discovery capability, the Layer 4 Traffic Monitor can monitor the movement
of malware in real time—even as the malware host tries to avoid detection by migrating from
one IP address to another.
12. • Cisco SIO produces reputation scores for various traffic sources (networks) and
then downloads the scores to Cisco IPS sensors that have been configured to
receive them. These scores form the basis of the Cisco IPS Global Correlation
feature.
Thus, bad traffic denied by a Cisco IPS sensor falls into three categories:
• Global Correlation Reputation Filtering: Based on reputation alone. Flow is not
passed to the traditional inspection engines.
• Global Correlation Inspection: Based on a combination of traditional inspection
and network reputation information. The risk rating mechanism combines the two
threat signals.
• Traditional IPS Detection: Based on traditional inspection techniques, including
protocol decoding engines, signature based inspection, and anomaly detection via
statistical analysis of network traffic. In this case, network reputation information for
the traffic flow is not available or does not have an effect on the flow.
•Rather than collecting data from network security devices, Sensor Base also collect
raw data from 600 third party news and data feeds, this collected information are like
DNS registry information, global public blacklist/white list etc.
14. Threat Operations Center
• The operations arm of Cisco SIO is a combination of people and automated
algorithms that process Cisco Sensor Base data in real time. These teams create
machine generated and manually generated rules for protection against new and
dynamic threats.
•creating 95% of rules that Cisco’s network security devices use. Rules are
published to Cisco products in form of automated rules and signatures, also these
rules are published to customers through alerts and bulletin.
Threat Operation Center is consist of :
• Applied Security Research (ASR): ASR’s main work is to look for vulnerability in
key technology area and provide threat indication and analysis to the customers.
• Cisco IPS Signature team: Its main work is to research on exploits and writing
vulnerability signatures for IPS products.
15. Threat Operations Center
• Cisco IronPort Email and Web Threat Research Teams: Provide the latest
protection for SMTP and Web-based attacks.
• Cisco Malware Research Lab: A centralized malware lab focused on researching
the latest malicious activity.
• Intrusion Protection Signature Team: Researches and develops vulnerability and
exploit-specific signatures that are used by IPS product lines.
• Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT): Evaluates and works
across Cisco to mitigate vulnerabilities reported in Cisco products.
•Strategic Assessment Technology Team (STAT): Advanced, area-specific security
research and product vulnerability testing.
16. Threat Operations Center
• Infrastructure Security Research & Development (ISRD): A research-oriented,
business enablement function that maintains strong expertise in the area of security
and creates security solutions for customers engaged in emerging industries and
infrastructures.
• Remote Management Services (RMS): Provides 24x7x365 remote monitoring and
management of Cisco security devices that are deployed on your network.
•IntelliShield Security Analysts: Collect, research, and provide information about
security events that have the potential for widespread impact on customer networks,
applications, and devices.
17.
18. Dynamic Updates
Cisco SIO’s dynamic updates deliver current and complete security information to
Cisco customers and devices.
Threat mitigation data is provided through:
• Automatic rule updates for Cisco products, such as firewall, web, IPS, or email
devices delivered every 3 to 5 minutes
• Cisco IntelliShield Alert Manager Service
• Security best-practice recommendations and community outreach services
• It is a communication hub responsible for streaming updates to Cisco devices
and customers. There are two major part involved in Dynamic update,
• one is to generate real time updates which are automatically delivered to security
devices and
•other is to helping customers to track and analyse threat to improve their overall
security arrangement.
19. Examples of the other forms of Cisco security intelligence include:
• Cisco IntelliShield Alerts, including Malicious Code Alerts, Security Activity
Bulletins, Security Issue Alerts, Threat Outbreak Alerts, and Geopolitical
Security Reports
• Cisco Annual Security Reports
• Cisco PSIRT Security Advisories and Security Responses
• Applied Mitigation Bulletins
• Cyber Risk Reports
• Security Intelligence Best Practices
• Service Provider Security Best Practices
• Cisco IPS Active Update Bulletins
• IntelliShield Event Responses
• Annual Security Report
• Cisco IronPort Virus Outbreak Reports
20. Advanced Cisco SIO protection is available on the following Cisco
products:
• CiscoAdaptiveSecurityAppliances
• Cisco IronPort EmailSecurity Appliances, Hosted Email Security, and Hybrid
Hosted Email Security
• Cisco IronPortWebSecurity Appliances
• Cisco IntrusionPreventionSystems
• Cisco IntegratedServices Modules
• Cisco IntelliShieldAlertServices
These devices and hosted services are licensed with one or more security
filters that are powered by Cisco SIO, including:
• Cisco IronPortVirusOutbreak Filters
• Cisco IronPortAnti-Spam
• Cisco IronPort EmailReputation Filters
• Cisco IronPortWebReputation Filters
• Cisco IPS Reputation and Signature Filters
• Cisco FirewallBotnet Traffic Filters