#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we're discussing the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Tim Gurganus.

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Cisco Guest

Tim Gurganus (@hotzoner), Security Incident Manager at Cisco

Tim is a Security Incident Manager with Cisco Active Threat Analytics. He monitors security of Cisco's largest customers, including Hospitals, financial service companies, and others. He helps to make sure a method exists to detect and mitigate attacks across Cisco's customers. Tim contributed to the threat intelligence section of the Annual Security Report.

Cisco Champion Hosts

• Brandon Carroll (@brandoncarroll), Network Security Solutions Engineer
• Jake Gillen  (@jakegillen), Senior Security Engineer
• Chris Brown (@ChrisKnowsIT), Senior Network Operations Manager

Moderator

• Brian Remmel (@bremmel)

Podcast Discussion Topics:

• How attackers are using trusted resources to launch attacks
• Educating non-savvy users about the dangers of exploits
• The value of DNS to combat attacks
• The impact of increased encryption for attackers and defenders
• The importance of big data and analytics
• Decreasing levels of confidence in security preparedness
• Cisco's focus on security
• SMB security challenges
• Closing the innovation gap
• Time to Detection as a security metric
• Industry collaboration disrupting attacker infrastructure

For more security trends and insights from Cisco, download the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report.