US Imprisons Man Who Exploited Children Via Social Media

US Imprisons Man Who Exploited Children Via Social Media

A sexual predator who used social media apps to victimize minors has been sent to prison in the United States. Jacob Blanco, of Fresno, California, used several ruses to manipulate children as young as six years old into producing sexually explicit material and then sharing it with him. Using apps including Musical.ly (now TikTok), Kik and Snapchat, the 29-year-old offender posed as a child modeling agent or pretended to be a minor himself to deceive…

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Learn How to Make Great APIs the Easy Way at DevNet Create

Learn How to Make Great APIs the Easy Way at DevNet Create

Here at DevNet, we really love APIs. (Duh!) And while we hope you enjoy consuming Cisco’s APIs and making awesome integrated solutions with us, if you’ve ever worked on a software project of any complexity you’ve likely been faced with creating your own private/internal (or even public facing) APIs. Putting together a few GET requests and an HTTP listener for a client/server app you control is fairly easy. However, once you start adding components, users,…

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Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

The new paradigm that enterprises deal with includes connecting users to countless applications including business critical applications which may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud. With millions of users worldwide connecting – from many sources, enterprises and service providers have not been able to accurately and completely monitor, report on, and manage service and performance levels of all of these interactions. To reduce network congestion and increase operational efficiency -, customers must be able…

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Hospital Hacker Steals Patients’ Data

Hospital Hacker Steals Patients’ Data

Data belonging to patients of a hospital in New Mexico has been deleted by an unknown cyber-attacker.  The IT network of San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington was breached by an unauthorized individual in September last year. The attack was reported to the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights on June 4 as a network server security incident impacting 68,792 individuals.  In a statement released on October 7, the hospital said that it had…

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Join the Beta for Meraki Webhook Custom Payload Templates

Join the Beta for Meraki Webhook Custom Payload Templates

The Meraki team recently announced Webhook **Custom** Payload Templates, a new way to receive and present network alerts. Learn more and engage with the team in the Meraki Community post, and learn more about the details below. The new Webhook Payload Templates feature is awesome! But we’re getting questions from you like: Can I change the formatting a little? Does this work with my favorite messaging service? Do you support custom authentication headers? Instead of…

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Making Banking Easier with Intelligent Branch – Cisco Blogs

Making Banking Easier with Intelligent Branch – Cisco Blogs

It’s a time of transition and digital transformation in financial services. Whether a retail bank, wealth management firm, credit union, or insurance company with a banking segment, the financial industry is facing dramatic changes on how best to accommodate customers, and what is the appropriate mix between brick-and-mortar bank branches, remote work, self-service ATMs, and digital platforms. Financial institutions are now working to build intelligent branches. The intelligent branch is designed to execute business with…

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Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

Miercom Test endorses Cisco SD-WAN’s Application Visibility and Control Capabilities – Cisco Blogs

The new paradigm that enterprises deal with includes connecting users to countless applications including business critical applications which may be hosted on-premises or in the cloud. With millions of users worldwide connecting – from many sources, enterprises and service providers have not been able to accurately and completely monitor, report on, and manage service and performance levels of all of these interactions. To reduce network congestion and increase operational efficiency -, customers must be able…

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Cisco Crisis Response: Re-imagining humanitarian communications and connectivity to optimize social impact – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Crisis Response: Re-imagining humanitarian communications and connectivity to optimize social impact – Cisco Blogs

In the six years I have worked on the Cisco Corporate Affairs team, I have seen firsthand how natural disasters and humanitarian crises impact some of the world’s most vulnerable people.   From Hurricane Maria devastating the island of Puerto Rico to armed conflicts forcing people to flee countries like Syria and South Sudan – when crises occur, they most often affect already vulnerable communities that lack the resources to respond and recover from them.   According to the UN, 82.4 million individuals have…

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2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 4: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 4: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

Although Hispanic Heritage Month is coming to an end on October 15th, it doesn’t mean we have to stop celebrating our employee’s and learning about their heritage and what led them to their career in cybersecurity. Take a look at the conversation below with McAfee Enterprise, Joyce Moros-Nahim, LTAM Legal Director What do you enjoy most about your heritage and what is one of your favorite memories growing up? What I enjoy the most about…

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Cisco Cable and Mobility at SCTE Expo – Cisco Blogs

Cisco Cable and Mobility at SCTE Expo – Cisco Blogs

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo starts this week and runs from October 11-14. I do not know about you, but I was optimistic that we finally get together in person this fall for SCTE Expo, especially since this year it is in my hometown of Atlanta. Unfortunately, we will have to live with another virtual experience, but that does not mean Cisco does not have some great content to share with the industry. I am excited to…

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