Industry Voice: 98% of malware threats are blocked with Cisco Secure Solutions

With endless cyber threats, vulnerable access points, and employees working from anywhere and everywhere, keeping the network safe feels tougher than ever. That's about to change. Cisco Security blocks 98% of malware threats. It's a remarkable number – how is this achieved?

The ever-watchful eye: Talos and threat intelligence

Cisco Talos is one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world. With an elite group of security experts, researchers analysts and engineers, Talos defends Cisco customers against known and emerging threats, discovering vulnerabilities and stopping them before they can further harm the internet at large.

Talos protects every Cisco customer environment, every event, every single day, all around the world.

AI in security – augmenting human expertise

Visibility plays a crucial role in cybersecurity. Cisco recognises the adage: "You can't protect what you can't see." This is where the recent acquisition of Splunk comes in. Splunk specialises in software that monitors and analyses machine-generated data. By integrating Splunk with their solutions, Cisco will be empowering partners to gain unprecedented insights into network activity, identifying potential threats before they cause harm.

AI has always played a pivotal role in Cisco's security portfolio, automating tasks and augmenting human expertise. This lets security teams focus on critical issues and respond to threats more effectively. Cisco's commitment to innovation extends beyond internal development - the recent partnership with Nvidia leverages their GPUs to accelerate security analysis and threat detection. This collaboration helps Cisco offer solutions harnessing the immense processing power of AI, significantly enhancing security solutions.

A new era with Cisco Security Suites

Organisations historically have relied on multiple siloed point solutions to secure their business. But as network environments grow more complex, this patchwork approach becomes inadequate, adding complexity and creating vulnerabilities. Cisco Security Suites strengthens the security posture with a consolidated approach, protecting organisations all at once.

Cisco Security Suites bring together the security tools needed to create comprehensive solutions whose parts work together to deliver better efficacy, better economics, and better experience. These new suites are built on zero-trust principles and leverage the power of AI to secure users, protect infrastructure, and accelerate the resolution of attacks. Each suite is available in tiers—to match the needs of your customers. Taken together, each suite extends and enhances the strengths of the others.

User Protection Suite

Give users secure, seamless access to any app, any time, on any device.

Cloud Protection Suite

Protect hybrid and multi-cloud environments with end-to-end security for applications, workloads, networks, and clouds.

Breach Protection Suite

Empower security teams to simplify operations and accelerate response.

Each suite is underpinned by Cisco's Firepower, the ultimate firewall to plan, prioritise, close gaps, and recover from disaster.

Andy Hook, Security Architecture Lead at Comstor explains what support is available to capitalise on the Cisco Security opportunity:

"There's a $250 billion cybersecurity spend on the table and Comstor is committed to supporting partners getting a share of this with our biggest every security enablement programme. We've invested in our biggest-ever team of sales specialists, Cisco-accredited engineers, unique training and data-led demand generation – all of this at no cost to our partners. Choose Comstor as your partner to succeed with Cisco Security".

Find out more about Comstor Security Enablement.

This article is sponsored by Comstor.