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Quick post on Implementing Cisco Secure Endpoint leveraging Cisco Secure Client Cloud Deployment - Cool stuff and easy to deploy and implement
First go to SecureX (https://securex.us.security.cisco.com)
Click the Insights Tab Go to Deployment Management on the Left SideBar
On the right Go to –> + Create New Add a name and Click Save
Under the Cloud Management Section, you will have 2 options – Depending on your needs you can have it to AutoUpdate or NoAutoUpdate. This is a cool feature and will be the best way to keep the Core Modules updated
Today I want to start off by sharing a few things that I have been researching for a while. I have had a lot of curiosity about incident response, I want to understand how it works, what is expected from an IR team, and much more.
For the last few days, I have also been asking my new friend ChatGPT about it so that I can get some of the answers and things that go on during an Incident Response engagement.
I consider it should be a good idea to start with a quick overview or list of Attack Vectors before we dive right into what goes into the Detection and Analysis phase.
Companies should be able to prepare and have plans around common attack vectors, and what to do in those cases, we went over that in our previous post, but this time as a refresher, here is a non-exhaustive list of common attack vectors:
I want to take the opportunity to break down what goes into the preparation for incident response and what things could like from the perspective of an infosec professional.
Going back to NIST, there are a few things that are considered:
Part of a well-defined IR Plan includes things like creating an IR Policy and plan, and what tools will be used for performing incident handling and reporting. A determined team structure, who are the players?, lead Engineers? who is in charge of collecting forensic data? what happens during the eradication and recovery phases, and who is in charge? Should these functions be assigned to a team or an individual? - A well-described line of communication between teams and technical and executive teams (Yeah - Executives need to be involved)
Last year AnyConnect went through an interesting transformation, its name changed to Secure Client, and looks like Cisco realized that the amount of information that could be collected from it and other services, makes it a good data mine for Security context and information.
But what is the buzz about, what changed? A few interesting things changed, and one of the most important things that changed was the way to deploy it or roll it out to an environment.
Today I want to create a quick blog post that goes over setting up Umbrella in a few different ways, you may notice that these will be long posts, so I will have to break this into a few different posts over the coming weeks.
If you are new to Cisco Umbrella, well here is a quick explanation of what it is and how it works:
Cisco Umbrella offers flexible, cloud-delivered security. It combines multiple security functions into one solution, so you can extend data protection to devices, remote users, and distributed locations anywhere. Umbrella is the easiest way to effectively protect your users everywhere in minutes.
Hey we are back, this time I want to explore the section of the deployment of Umbrella, where we can configure a device to communicate and forward all traffic to Umbrella
We will concentrate on the section for Network Devices this time: The main idea of this integration is that the devices will become an Identity, which you can use later to apply policy under any of your settings inside Umbrella
