Zero Trust framework improves workforce security and productivity, while cutting support costs – Cisco Blogs

Zero Trust framework improves workforce security and productivity, while cutting support costs – Cisco Blogs

In collaboration with Joel Barbier and Vishal Gupta   Like most companies, Cisco is committed to continually improving security while simultaneously simplifying the user experience. We’ve learned some important lessons along the way. There are multiple points where user ID and password credentials can be potentially compromised. For example, employees sometimes chose to ignore best practices by utilizing easy-to-remember passwords such as “123456.” Others would share their Cisco passwords or use them externally for non-business-related…

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Texas School District to Scan Children’s Devices

Texas School District to Scan Children’s Devices

A school district in East Texas will start scanning digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose of the virtual…

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Texas School District to Scan Children’s Devices

Texas School District to Scan Children’s Devices

A school district in East Texas is going to start scanning the digital devices used by its students to find out what they have been saying to and about one another.  Longview Independent School District (Longview ISD) has partnered with technology and web-hosting company Gaggle to scour district-issued devices and student emails for a particular set of keywords. With Gaggle’s software, the keywords can be detected and reported to school administrators.  The district says that the purpose…

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AWS targets IPv6 migration for serverless, container workloads

AWS targets IPv6 migration for serverless, container workloads

Amazon Web Services has launched new support for IPv6-only subnets that can meet the needs of workloads that require more IP addresses than IPv4 can readily provide. The service is available through Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and suitable for workloads such as serverless and container applications, according to a blog by Rohit Aswani, a senior specialist solutions architect and Aditya Santhanam, a senior product manager, both with AWS. “Workloads that are constrained by the…

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Quantinuum shifts conversation from counting qubits to perfecting cybersecurity solution

Quantinuum shifts conversation from counting qubits to perfecting cybersecurity solution

The new quantum company plans a hardware agnostic approach combined with Honeywell’s H1 and Cambridge Quantum’s tket. Quantinuum is the new company that combines trapped ion hardware from Honeywell Quantum Solutions and open-source software from Cambridge Quantum to create a full-stack quantum computing company. Image: Quantinuum Quantinuum is not counting qubits in the race to error-corrected quantum computing. The new company is asking a new question: “What can we do right now with what we’ve…

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Cisco to award $1M USD to #TechForGood startups and entrepreneurs addressing social issues and climate change – Cisco Blogs

Cisco to award M USD to #TechForGood startups and entrepreneurs addressing social issues and climate change – Cisco Blogs

Today, I am proud to announce that the sixth-annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is now accepting applications. One of Cisco’s signature Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, the Challenge will award $1 million in cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs who are addressing some of our toughest social and environmental problems. We launched the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge in 2016 to jumpstart innovative ideas that benefit society, catalyze economic growth, and create jobs. Since then,…

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Clearview AI to be Fined $22.6M for Breaching UK Data Protection Laws

Clearview AI to be Fined .6M for Breaching UK Data Protection Laws

American facial recognition company Clearview AI is facing a fine of just over £17m ($22.6m) for alleged “serious breaches” of the UK’s data protection laws.  The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced the planned penalty yesterday and issued a provisional notice to Clearview to stop processing personal data taken from UK residents and to delete any such data in its possession. The announcement follows a joint investigation by the ICO and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), which found…

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Anomali Cyber Watch: Web Skimmers Victimize Holiday Shoppers, Tardigrade Targets Vaccine Manufacturers, Babadeda Crypter Targets Crypto Community, and More

Anomali Cyber Watch: Web Skimmers Victimize Holiday Shoppers, Tardigrade Targets Vaccine Manufacturers, Babadeda Crypter Targets Crypto Community, and More

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Data breach, Stealthy malware, Vulnerabilities and Web skimmers. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News…

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Episode 3: Crafting a Strategy for Agile and Secure Networks

Episode 3: Crafting a Strategy for Agile and Secure Networks

Thinking strategically is key for success in IT. In 2021, IDG saw a significant jump in the number of CIOs calling themselves “strategic.” These are the CIOs who spend the majority of their time driving business innovation and identifying opportunities for competitive differentiation.[1] And this trajectory is expected to continue throughout the next three years as almost 6 in 10 say they want their focus to be even more strategic.  It’s not just IT: 91%…

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