Cisco security center aims to help network admins cope with Microsoft Patch Tuesday alerts

Dave Goddard writing in Cisco’s Security Blog used Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday to remind Cisco customers of its redesigned Cisco Security Center site, which includes the IntelliShield Event

Responses. As Goddard explains, IntelliShield Event Responses “consolidate Cisco’s knowledge and best practices about particular events in a single document. The goal of this document is to shorten our customers’ response times through actionable security intelligence. Included are Cisco product solutions and recommended mitigation techniques , with links which document specific, tested, mitigation practices from a team of security professionals in the IntelliShield group.”

For instance, the IntelliShield at Cisco today provides links to Microsoft’s December alerts, including a list of the affected products and identitfication and mitigation techniques that administrators can deploy on Cisco network devices.

As Goddard explains: “These Applied Mitigation Bulletins include coverage from Cisco technologies like Cisco Security Agent (CSA), Cisco IOS Routers and Switches, Cisco IOS NetFlow, the Cisco ASA product line, Cisco PIX, the FWSM Cat6K firewall blades, Cisco IPS, and Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System (better known as CS-MARS).”

Further reading:

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Cisco gives its Security Research Center a Makeover

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