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Cisco Talos, or Cisco Talos Intelligence Group, is a cybersecurity technology and information security company based in Fulton, Maryland. [1] It is a part of Cisco Systems Inc. Talos' threat intelligence powers Cisco Secure [ 2 ] products and services, including malware detection and prevention systems.
ClamAV (antivirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses.It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku.
Following the first Cisco takeover purchase, acquisitions have constituted 50 percent of the company's business activity. [ 2 ] The company's largest acquisition as of October 2023 [update] is the purchase of Splunk —a software company that develops software for the analysis and monitoring of machine-generated data — US$ 28 billion. [ 3 ]
Following the Cisco acquisition [30] of Sourcefire in 2013, the VRT combined with Cisco's TRAC and SecApps (Security Applications) group to form Cisco Talos. [31] "Talos" was officially coined in usage in 2014, followed by its trademark, and was announced at Blackhat that year.
"Corporate market" refers to enterprise networking and service providers. Enterprise networks Products in this category are Cisco's range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration hardware, energy and building management systems and media aware network equipment.
3 days later Cisco Talos published a report dubbing the malware "Olympic Destroyer." The report listed similarities in the malware's propagation techniques to the "BadRabbit" and "Nyetya" malware strains and stated disruption of the games as the attack's objective. [18]
Network Admission Control (NAC) refers to Cisco's version of network access control, which restricts access to the network based on identity or security posture.When a network device (switch, router, wireless access point, DHCP server, etc.) is configured for NAC, it can force user or machine authentication prior to granting access to the network.
Even though the ransomware claimed TeslaCrypt used asymmetric encryption, researchers from Cisco's Talos Group found that symmetric encryption was used and developed a decryption tool for it. [9] This "deficiency" was changed in version 2.0, rendering it impossible to decrypt files affected by TeslaCrypt-2.0. [10]