Tag Archive for: NextGen

Cisco touts next-gen firewall gear for midsize installations

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Cisco is coming out with four next-generation firewall boxes aimed at giving smaller organizations protection that is better sized to their needs and engineered to minimize performance hits as additional security services are turned on.

The devices make up a family called the Cisco Firepower 2100 series and are built around dual, multi-core processors. That architecture enables custom processing of traffic requiring threat inspection, and also supports tagging traffic that doesn’t need threat inspection so it flows through only the separate network processing unit.

These features combine to provide ample processing power for services such as IPS and also lighten the total load on that processor by diverting traffic that doesn’t require those services, Cisco says.

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Network World Tim Greene

Carbon Black buys Confer for next-gen anti-virus

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Carbon Black has bought Confer to boost its protection for network endpoints using a behavioral form of antivirus combined with cloud analysis of threats rather than traditional signature-based software.

Called Cb Defense, the renamed Confer product uses behavior-based techniques to prevent attacks from getting started and blends in attack-detection and response as a way to halt ongoing attacks.

These are supported by analytics based in the cloud that help detect malwareless attacks that employ legitimate tools that are built into operating systems as a way to stay below the radar of defenses that use hashes and signatures to detect.

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Network World Tim Greene

Cole guides agencies in next-gen cyber warfare – GCN.com

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Cole guides agencies in next-gen cyber warfare
GCN.com
Tony Cole has been immersed in cybersecurity since before it was an industry. In 2002, he retired after a 20-year career in the Army, where his last assignment was as technical operations manager for network security services at the Pentagon …

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Airborne intelligence: U.S. Army building NextGen surveillance planes

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In a Maryland laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Army scientists, engineers and program developers are working on the Army’s next-generation surveillance aircraft, the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS). This NextGen flying spy [PDF] is a “C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system.
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