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Why is there a monthly subscription?

The Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group (Talos) is made up of leading threat researchers supported by sophisticated systems to create threat intelligence for Cisco products that detects, analyzes and protects against both known and emerging threats.   Sniper Watch leverages the #1 global threat intelligence cloud malware detection system in the world to keep all of your devices safe.  This security cloud value is expensive and mandates high levels of maintenance.  Corporate Enterprise organizations use this cloud database and spend large amounts of money to stay protected.  Because hackers have targeted corporations first, it it likely that a malware event will be seen at an enterprise level, and then filter down to the home level.  This paradigm is why it is critical for you, as a home user, to take action right away.  Sniper Watch has worked to bring the same security levels to the home user on a budget that it affordable for everyone.

Talos maintains the official rule sets of Snort.org, ClamAV, SenderBase.org and SpamCop. This blog profile is managed by multiple authors with expertise that spans software development, reverse engineering, vulnerability triage, malware investigation and intelligence gathering.

Talos is the primary team that contributes threat information to the Cisco Collective Security Intelligence (CSI) ecosystem. Cisco CSI is shared across multiple security solutions and provides industry-leading security protections and efficacy. In addition to threat researchers, CSI is driven by intelligence infrastructure, product and service telemetry, public and private feeds and the open source community.