What's Cool In Network Security So Far In 2017?

Cisco Security

Cisco boosted its network security portfolio in June with the launch of Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics, which solves a growing challenge in security around threats hiding in encrypted traffic. Cisco said almost half of cyberattacks are hidden in encrypted traffic and this number keeps growing. By utilizing Cisco's Talos cyberintelligence and machine learning to analyze metadata traffic patterns, the network can identify the fingerprints of known threats even in encrypted traffic, without decrypting it and impacting data privacy. A month earlier, Cisco also unveiled a partnership with IBM to integrate some of its security products, services and threat intelligence. Both launches speak to Cisco's growing commitment around security, which represents a growing area of the networking giant's business and more than $2 billion of its sales in 2016.