A cybersecurity company helps organizations reduce cyber risk and enhance security defenses by using software that protects business-critical applications and data. Leading cybersecurity companies offer a suite of integrated cybersecurity software solutions to provide end-to-end coverage and visibility across an environment.
Organizations benefit from working with a cybersecurity company by making the most of their limited resources, relieving the burden of having to build or support in-house security applications, and taking advantage of highly specialized expertise not otherwise available.
"A [security] platform is not a bag of parts but a system that has individual components that can gather telemetry from email, web, endpoint, and the network and put it together in a coherent way to identify and stop threats and orchestrate an intelligent response."
Tom Gillis, SVP Security Cisco
A cybersecurity company can help protect organizations with cybersecurity solutions such as:
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Security teams need to have visibility across everything they protect: email, web, endpoints, clouds, and networks. Such visibility is difficult with disjointed, poorly integrated tools. To secure applications and workloads in a complex environment, cybersecurity solutions should work together. Only then can they fully defend against the various ways cyberthreats can infiltrate and threaten an organization.
Security service edge (SSE): Cisco Secure Access
SSE solutions help organizations provide secure connectivity for hybrid workforces, while protecting corporate resources from cyberattacks and data loss. This platform unifies multiple security functions into a single cloud-delivered service to protect users and infrastructure from threats.
Cisco Secure Access is an SSE solution that delivers an optimal universal experience for users, greatly simplifies IT operations, and helps ensure security for everyone.
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XDR is a unified threat detection, investigation, mitigation, and hunting solution that integrates the entire Cisco security portfolio and select third-party tools across endpoints, email, network, and cloud, backed by actionable threat intelligence. Detect and respond to the most sophisticated threats and ransomware with correlated cross-domain telemetry and AI/ML-driven enrichment to significantly accelerate incident response.
SASE is a network architecture that combines network and cloud-delivered security technologies into a single cloud service. Core functions include Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), secure web gateway (SWG), zero trust network access (ZTNA), and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).
Malware detection is a type of cybersecurity software designed to track unknown files, block known malicious files, and prevent the execution of malware on endpoints and network appliances. It can also help isolate, investigate, and repair infected endpoints for the 1% of attacks that still get through the strongest defenses.
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Cisco Secure Malware Analytics combines advanced sandboxing with threat intelligence into one unified solution to protect organizations from malware. With a robust, context-rich malware knowledge base, you'll understand the malware threat, how serious it is, and how to defend against it.
Trusted access solutions support zero trust principles by constantly verifying user and device identity, device posture, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise. Risk-based authentication, which uses contextual information to assess the risk of a login, is a critical component of authentication. Cisco software verifies user trust at every point.
Cisco Umbrella uses web scanning at an Avigilon Control Center (ACC) gateway to block users from connecting to known and suspected malicious domains, IPs, and URLs, whether they're on or off your network. This can help prevent people from inadvertently allowing malware to access the network and can stop malware from connecting back out to a command and control (C2) server.
Cisco Secure Firewall includes network security features to detect malicious files attempting to enter a network from the internet or moving within a network. Network segmentation intel in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) can prevent the lateral movement of threats, and Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) with intrusion prevention system (IPS) blocks unwanted non-web traffic.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics provides network visibility and can detect internal network anomalies, including malware activating its payload. It can even detect malware in encrypted traffic without decryption. Multilayer machine learning and advanced behavioral analytics identify who is accessing your network or your public cloud infrastructure.
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense technology addresses email security for the inbox with phishing protection, advanced spam filtering, and defense against Business Email Compromised (BEC) with Domain Based Message Authentication Reporting (DMARC). Cisco Secure Email software, deployed on-premises or in the cloud, blocks malware in phishing emails sent by threat actors.
Comprised of world-class researchers, analysts and engineers, Cisco Talos is one of the largest commercial threat intelligence teams in the world. This team harnesses sophisticated systems to create accurate, rapid, and actionable threat intelligence for Cisco customers, products, and services.
Know your adversary. Learn about the most common cyberthreats and the security solutions that defend against them.
| Security threats | Security solutions |
| Phishing: Threat vector which uses spam email that appears authentic with the goal of stealing credentials. A malicious attachment or link in an email can deploy malware. Links presented in emails should be handled with caution. With the toolkits available to attackers, phishing emails are harder to detect. Other methods like SMS text phishing (or SMiShing) are also on the rise. | Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense |
| Spear phishing: Phishing targeted to an individual user. Vishing uses the phone or call center to steal information. Pretexting is the attacker's use of a scenario that increases the chance of success (for example, lost my password and internet connection). Baiting refers to leaving desirable items to be taken and used and then infect computers with malware (for example, USB drives at conferences). Tailgating allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a building by closely following a person with authorized badge access through a secured door. | |
| Social engineering: A person using psychological manipulation of a user to carry out an action or divulge information. They trick someone into doing a desired action such as wiring money or divulging login credentials through phishing, spear phishing, vishing, pretexting, baiting, and tailgating. | |
| Spoofing: A cybercrime in which someone forges the sender's information, impersonating a legitimate source or trusted contact with the intent of gaining access to personal information. The goal of spoofing often includes stealing data or money or spreading malware. Other forms of spoofing include IP address spoofing, DNS spoofing, and URL spoofing. | |
| Malware: Malicious software intended to damage or disrupt computers and computer networks. Common types of malware are phishing attachments and "malvertising." An insider attack is when malware is deployed inside a network. This type of intrusion can be harder for security teams to detect because it might look like users are performing a task. | Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Umbrella |
| Ransomware: Malicious software that threatens to publish or perpetually block access to a victim's data unless a ransom is paid. It is often delivered through phishing email. If organizations don't have a backup plan, they may have to pay the attackers to get their data back, often with cryptocurrency. | |
| Malvertising: When cybercriminals deploy malicious JavaScript inside online advertising. The ads direct users to websites or popups often used in money scams. | |
| Data breach: A security violation or incident that leads to the theft of sensitive or critical data or its exposure to an unauthorized party. The ultimate goal of an attack is almost always data access and data exfiltration. | |
| Exploit: Attackers know about vulnerabilities in software and systems. They take advantage of these exploits, often using social engineering tactics, to deliver malware. These vulnerabilities can be minimized by keeping software up to date and becoming cyber-aware of social engineering techniques like phishing. | |
| Advanced persistent threat (APT): A long-term and covert cyberattack on a computer network where the attacker gains and maintains unauthorized access to a network and remains undetected for weeks, months, even years. Stealing data is usually the end goal of an APT attack. | |
| Viruses: A computer virus is malware that self-replicates by injecting its code into other software programs. It spreads from one computer to another, with the intent of disrupting a system's ability to operate. Having a data backup can be critical when it comes to recovering from a virus or ransomware. | |
| Software worm: A piece of software that can propagate on its own to spread to other computers, performing malicious actions where it spreads. Unlike a virus or malware, a software worm exists as a standalone entity; it isn't hidden inside something else like an attachment. | |
| 0-Day, or zero-day attack: When a cybercriminal exploits a new or previously unknown software vulnerability for which no patch has been developed, thus leaving the organization exposed to harm. | |
| Botnet: Derived from robot network, meaning a network of victim computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owner's knowledge. This is a form of malware deployed to a group of robot computers the attackers exploit to carry out their malicious intent, which is often a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. | Cisco Umbrella Cisco Secure DDoS Protection |
| DoS (denial of service): Denial of service is a type of attack that prevents access to a computing resource (service, network, storage, memory, or CPU.) This attack attempts to disable a website, preventing it from being accessed. A DoS attack is performed by a group of botnets. | |
| DDoS (distributed denial of service) A denial of service attack carried out by a group of individual computers or bots, including IoT devices, that unify to engage in an attack against one resource. This attack typically floods a server or network with unwanted traffic to prevent normal access and application performance. | |
| Cryptomining: Malicious cryptomining is a browser- or software-based threat that enables hackers to infiltrate system resources to generate cryptocurrencies. Similar to a botnet, cryptomining occurs when computer resources are taken over to help build a ledger for cryptocurrency. Attackers aren't stealing data but are using your CPU resources and power. |
