When Cybercriminals get busy, businesses must be increasingly resilient

Cisco Talos' Brad Garnett shares his thoughts on creating a resilient incident response program in a hybrid work world.

Another holiday season is behind us, and with it a period of peak shopping, peak travel, and yes, peak cybercrime.

The end-of-year holidays are open season for cybercriminals. Last month, a particularly worrisome computer bug known as Log4J became the latest in a series of high-profile exploits. 

How should organizations battle these challenges, particularly in the event of such an emergency when the bad guys may already have a foot in the door?

If you’ve teamed up with Cisco to help you prepare for and respond to cyber incidents, you call Cisco Talos Incident Response.

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Cisco recognized by Forrester as cybersecurity incident response services provider

Cisco Talos Incident Response is proud to announce that Forrester has recognized us by including Cisco in the new Forrester report “Now Tech: Cybersecurity Incident Response Services, Q4 2021.”

The Forrester report provides an overview of 36 Cybersecurity Incident Response Services (CIRS) providers that offer critical incident response and digital forensic expertise during cybersecurity breaches based upon size, capabilities, industry vertical and geography. We are especially pleased to be recognized in this Forrester report as this news comes on the heels of us being named an industry leader in incident readiness as part of an IDC MarketScape report. [Continue reading]

Cisco named a Leader in IR Services

It has been more than two years already since Cisco Incident Response became a part of the Talos family. Since then, my team has continued a journey to simplify our offering for consumption and make incident response the ultimate team sport. 

That is why I could not be more humbled to announce that Cisco Talos Incident Response is being recognized as a leader by IDC in the 2021 MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Readiness Services (doc #US46741420, November 2021). Our world-class global incident response team continues to stand next to our customers to help them build resiliency into their processes, procedures, and people. Our customers understand the journey we are on together and turn to Cisco to securely connect, protect, and respond to threats impacting their hybrid workforce. [Continue reading]