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Cisco Talos
Cisco Talos (Talos), or Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence Group, is a cybersecurity threat intelligence team that operates as part of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is based in Fulton, Maryland. Talos provides threat intelligence that supports Cisco Security products and services, such as malware detection, DNS security, and email filtering. The group partners with industry and government entities to prevent cybersecurity threats. The group also maintains several open-source security tools, including the Snort intrusion prevention system and the ClamAV antivirus engine.
The company is known for its involvement in several high-profile cybersecurity investigations.
Sourcefire was founded in 2007 in Martin Roesch, the creator of the Snort intrusion prevention system. Sourcefire created an original commercial version of Snort known as the "Sourcefire 3D System," which eventually became the Firepower line of network security products. The company's headquarters were in Columbia, Maryland in the United States, with offices across the globe.
On July 23, 2013, Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the company combined the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (Sourcefire VRT), Cisco's Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team, and Security Applications (SecApps) to form Cisco Talos in August 2014. Today, Talos sits under the Cisco Secure umbrella and operates the Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) team.[citation needed]
In 2014, Cisco Talos helped co-found the Cyber Threat Alliance, a not-for-profit organization with the goal of improving cybersecurity "for the greater good" by encouraging collaboration between cybersecurity organizations by sharing cyber threat intelligence amongst members. As of 2022, the organization reported more than 40 members, including Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.
In June 2017, the team "SOLAT in the SWEN" from Talos placed first in the inaugural Fake News Challenge (FNC-1), a competition aimed at developing tools to automatically detect the stance of news articles relative to headlines using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. Out of 80 registered teams and 50 submitted entries, the winning Talos team used a hybrid approach leveraging deep convolutional neural networks, pre-trained word vectors, and gradient-boosted decision trees, achieving a relative score of 82.02%.
In 2019, Cisco Security Incident Response Services group announced a new partnership with Talos, becoming Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR). Since the creation of Talos IR, the group was named as a leader by IDC in the 2021 MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Readiness Services (doc #US46741420, November 2021). Talos IR was also added to the approved vendor list on the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service providers list in May 2022.
In January 2021, Talos launched Snort3, designed to make the software easier to use.
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Cisco Talos
Cisco Talos (Talos), or Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence Group, is a cybersecurity threat intelligence team that operates as part of Cisco Systems, Inc., and is based in Fulton, Maryland. Talos provides threat intelligence that supports Cisco Security products and services, such as malware detection, DNS security, and email filtering. The group partners with industry and government entities to prevent cybersecurity threats. The group also maintains several open-source security tools, including the Snort intrusion prevention system and the ClamAV antivirus engine.
The company is known for its involvement in several high-profile cybersecurity investigations.
Sourcefire was founded in 2007 in Martin Roesch, the creator of the Snort intrusion prevention system. Sourcefire created an original commercial version of Snort known as the "Sourcefire 3D System," which eventually became the Firepower line of network security products. The company's headquarters were in Columbia, Maryland in the United States, with offices across the globe.
On July 23, 2013, Cisco Systems announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the company combined the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (Sourcefire VRT), Cisco's Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team, and Security Applications (SecApps) to form Cisco Talos in August 2014. Today, Talos sits under the Cisco Secure umbrella and operates the Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) team.[citation needed]
In 2014, Cisco Talos helped co-found the Cyber Threat Alliance, a not-for-profit organization with the goal of improving cybersecurity "for the greater good" by encouraging collaboration between cybersecurity organizations by sharing cyber threat intelligence amongst members. As of 2022, the organization reported more than 40 members, including Fortinet, Checkpoint, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.
In June 2017, the team "SOLAT in the SWEN" from Talos placed first in the inaugural Fake News Challenge (FNC-1), a competition aimed at developing tools to automatically detect the stance of news articles relative to headlines using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. Out of 80 registered teams and 50 submitted entries, the winning Talos team used a hybrid approach leveraging deep convolutional neural networks, pre-trained word vectors, and gradient-boosted decision trees, achieving a relative score of 82.02%.
In 2019, Cisco Security Incident Response Services group announced a new partnership with Talos, becoming Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR). Since the creation of Talos IR, the group was named as a leader by IDC in the 2021 MarketScape for Worldwide Incident Readiness Services (doc #US46741420, November 2021). Talos IR was also added to the approved vendor list on the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) response service providers list in May 2022.
In January 2021, Talos launched Snort3, designed to make the software easier to use.