Thursday, July 7, 2016

Own Your Network Security?

Cisco has recently changed their Marketing to correspond with their change of leadership/CEO.  Lets test out their current "own your network security" mantra:

1. Microsoft Word documents are propagating across the Internet with malicious macros.  If your users have opened it, they would have seen this:


2. If your users enabled editing (the macro), unbeknownst to them, they would have initiated an outbound HTTP connection to this site in Germany:


3. Question - Would Cisco have enabled you to own your security... or been owned?  Based on what we see below, it looks like you are owned:


In summary, our work can be double checked via this Forcepoint File Sandbox Report.  If you agree with our conclusions, it's likely time to discuss how you can improve your Security Controls.  Learn more about our Forcepoint Services here.

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