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Describing Security Intelligence

Security Intelligence Overview

Hard to Keep up with Threats

  • Not a “set it and forget it” solution
  • Cant just sit back and monitor
  • Too many devices to manually update
  • A large amount of surface areas

Too Much Work

Identify threats, research solutions, and implement mitigations for every threat on each attack medium

Security Intelligence

  • Organisations can participate in a community of security devices
    • All organisations benefit from new threat information
  • Author, share, and consume

Security Intelligence Authoring, Sharing, and Consuming

Telemetry Sharing

Device upload data to network/Cloud

Scenario:

  • Threat affects organisation
  • Device now has info on threat
  • Info is uploaded to cloud
  • Additional info is uploaded from other orgs

Security Intelligence

  • Cloud performs analytics
  • Normalises data and finds pattens
    • Time, duration, surface area, other metrics
    • Who is being attacked
    • More info allows for better mitigations
  • Create signatures for different threats
  • Different security devices have different mitigations
  • Updates are shared with community
    • Cisco Talos can be every 3-5min
  • Each device installs the updates
  • All organizations participating in the cloud are protected from the new threat
  • Mo manual input required
  • Provides research and info to security professionals
  • Allows you to stay in the loop of the new types of threats that are emerging

Cisco Talos

  • 1.1 million malicious software samples
  • 300 billion email samples, 200 billion are malicious
  • Block malware, phishing, and spam
  • Need to have the appropriate license
    • Create policy and ruleset
  • Defence in depth

Cisco Products that use Talos:

  • NGFW & NGIPS
  • Cisco AMP
  • Email Security Appliance, Web Security Appliance
  • Cloud Email Security, Cloud Web Security
  • Cisco Umbrella
  • Cisco Threat Grid
![talos](_images/talos1.png)
Here you can see Legitimate Email, Spam & Malware colour-coded
![talos](_images/talos2.png)
Vulnerability Reports showing summary of the report
![talos](_images/talos3.png)
Vulnerability Reports showing the severity of threat
![talos](_images/talos4.png)
Vulnerability Reports showing details of how threat works
![talos](_images/talos5.png)
See the reputation for different things, like IP and Domain Reputation and File Reputation