Introducing Cisco’s New Quarterly Global Threat Reports

Today we released the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report, a report that provides a high level and thought provoking discussion of the technological, economic, and demographic shifts bearing down on IT security.  As you’ll see in the report, the first half of 2010 has been a very interesting time. ScanSafe has always had an unparalleled view of the Web threat landscape, thanks to the ten of billions of Web requests processed in real-time. Now, thanks to Cisco’s acquisition of ScanSafe, we can extend our threat data analysis even further.
As part of our efforts to improve what we do at Cisco Security Intelligence Operations, next week—just in time for Black Hat—we are introducing a project to merge threat analysis across all Cisco security teams. The first product of this is the Cisco 2Q10 Global Threat Report, which merges threat analysis from Cisco IPS, Cisco IronPort, and Cisco ScanSafe data. Not only can we now report the who, what, when and where of Web threats, but we can share our bird’s eye view into what types of attacks are happening on enterprise networks—including how they can sometimes correlate to attack outbreaks on the Web. And we’re going to do this every quarter.