My favorite meeting we attended today was our first meeting where we talked about Cisco’s Umbrella. Umbrella was a company that Cisco bought relatively recently. We attended a demo of the program where we were able to learn about how different companies, businesses, or schools might implement Umbrella in order to provide more security/ protection of their data.
Umbrella is unlike a lot of other security brands because instead of blocking a source after loading the website/email attachment, Umbrella blocks the threat based on the categories that the given threat fits under; some examples include newly seen domains, malware, cryptomining, etc. This prevents the virus or malicous code from even entering the comptuer and then traveling throughout the network.
In our second session, we learned about how buissnesses/companies can use Secure X (a dashboard that holds all things security) in combination with Umbrella and other secuirity products. These products do not just have to come from Cisco; there is a growing number of three party products that are constantly being added to the Secure X platform. Secure X simplifies and condesnses everything the average IT person would need to know all in one place.
This is a screenshot from our meeting about Secure X. It shows what a possible Secure X dashboard could look like.
-Grace