How IT organizations are thinking about Network as a Service – Cisco Blogs

How IT organizations are thinking about Network as a Service – Cisco Blogs

Networking models evolve  You don’t have to look very far to see that a transition is underway in IT. Organizations are changing how they acquire and consume software and infrastructure. In part, this is driven by their need to deliver services that meet increasingly dynamic business needs. The network has been undergoing the same evolution. The broad-based adoption of network automation and analytics over the last few years is resulting in huge leaps in agility,…

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Cisco and SONiC – Cisco Blogs

Cisco and SONiC – Cisco Blogs

To address the requirements of running one of the largest clouds in the world, in 2016, Microsoft announced a major innovation to operate and manage thousands of network devices using open-source software, Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC). Since then, SONiC has gained momentum as the open source operating system of choice for cloud-scale data center networks. A Key component of SONiC is the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) that enables ASIC and hardware…

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Improving Application Experience with Deep Network Visibility – Cisco Blogs

Improving Application Experience with Deep Network Visibility – Cisco Blogs

In the not-too-distant past, everything in the application and networking stack was under IT’s control. Workloads lived securely in the on-premises data center—people sat in their campus offices connected to the secure wireless network, and an MPLS service with an SLA connected branch offices to the data center and each other. Today, workforce productivity depends on cloud and SaaS applications that often rely on the public cloud infrastructure, which in turn depends on the internet…

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7 Common Digital Behaviors that Put Your Family’s Privacy at Risk

7 Common Digital Behaviors that Put Your Family’s Privacy at Risk

It would be impossible nowadays to separate our everyday lives from technology. We travel well-worn, comfortable paths online and engage in digital activities that work for us. But could those seemingly harmless habits be putting out the welcome to cyber criminals out to steal our data?  It’s a given that our “digital-first mindset”  comes with inherent risks. With the work and learn from home shift looking more permanent and cybercrime on the rise, it’s imperative to adopt new mindsets…

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Kyndryl weds Microsoft to grow cloud services

Kyndryl weds Microsoft to grow cloud services

IBM spin-off Kyndryl has made the first of what likely will be many strategic cloud partnerships with a pact with business software giant Microsoft. Under the agreement the companies will develop new products built on Microsoft Cloud and aimed at facilitating digital transformation, Kyndryl stated. Microsoft has also become Kyndryl’s only Premier Global Alliance Partner. Microsoft will sell products developed by the two companies through its global enterprise sales force and will develop a Microsoft…

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Kyndryl weds Microsoft as independent company looks to grow cloud services

Kyndryl weds Microsoft to grow cloud services

IBM spin-off Kyndryl has made the first of what likely will be many strategic cloud partnerships with a pact with business software giant Microsoft. Under the agreement the companies will develop new products built on Microsoft Cloud and aimed at facilitating digital transformation, Kyndryl stated. Microsoft has also become Kyndryl’s only Premier Global Alliance Partner. Microsoft will sell products developed by the two companies through its global enterprise sales force and will develop a Microsoft…

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Europol: Ransomware Gangs Focusing on High Profile Targets

Europol: Ransomware Gangs Focusing on High Profile Targets

Ransomware gangs have increasingly focused on high-profile targets like large corporations and government institutions in the past year, according to Europol’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2021. The report, which offers insights into current cybercrime trends in Europe, revealed that ransomware actors have taken advantage of widespread homeworking to launch more sophisticated and targeted attacks. The law enforcement agency also highlighted the growing use of multi-layered extortion methods to extort service providers, financial institutions and…

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RHEL 8.5 caters to multicloud, predictive analytics, containerization

RHEL 8.5 caters to multicloud, predictive analytics, containerization

Red Hat has rolled out version 8.5 of its main-line branch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which upgrades its support for containerization, predictive analytics, and multicloud. Red Hat Insight, the company’s predictive-analytics service—available through most RHEL subscriptions—now has more robust abilities in the areas of vulnerability identification, compliance, and remediation, the company said. Containerization is upgraded with RHEL 8.5 to make containerized applications easier to deploy and manage, according to Red Hat. The company…

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Vulnerable Web Applications Prevalent in EU Pharma Companies

Vulnerable Web Applications Prevalent in EU Pharma Companies

Europe’s top 10 pharma companies all have vulnerable web applications, potentially putting sensitive medical and patient data at risk of being hacked, according to a new study by Outpost24. The company used its external attack surface management tool to assess the security of Europe’s top pharma firms’ internet-facing web services. Worryingly, they gave 80% of these organizations a score of above 30 (out of 58.4), which indicates a high susceptibility to having security vulnerabilities presented externally for potential…

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Major Water Supplier Suffers Nine-Month Long Breach

Major Water Supplier Suffers Nine-Month Long Breach

One of Australia’s largest regional water suppliers was breached for several months before detecting the unauthorized access, another worrying sign of weaknesses in critical infrastructure security. A Queensland Audit Office annual report on the water industry did not mention the provider by name but said it continues to see “significant control weaknesses in the security of information systems” across the industry. The breach in question occurred between August 2020 and May 2021, resulting in unauthorized access to…

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