Each We Are Cisco blog post you’ll read here is written with care by Cisconians. You’ll see a lot of posts about why they love working here – I’ve written previous posts myself. Nothing has changed between my first blog and this one, except that I’m writing this time knowing I’m leaving Cisco. I joined Cisco right out of college. During the last five years, I can honestly say I grew with Cisco. I came…
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Microsoft In 1994, I’d already been covering the internet for years and I knew it was going to change the world. Microsoft still hadn’t come around to that idea. In the first edition of Bill Gates’s book The Road Ahead, he barely mentions the internet. In the next edition, Gates gave the internet a chapter to itself and by May 1995 he realized that the internet would be a technology tidal wave. Microsoft started rewriting history…
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Network-acceleration processors are becoming as popular as CPUs, and the latest big buy is Marvell Technology acquiring Innovium, a provider of networking solutions for cloud and edge data centers. Marvell already has an extensive portfolio of Ethernet-switching processors, and it recently acquired Inphi, a developer of dedicated high radix, performance-optimized switch silicon to help move vast amounts of data around data centers. Now comes the Innovium purchase. Innovium’s Teralynx switching architecture is said to deliver…
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The average cost of phishing for large US organizations has soared by 289% over the past six years, with firms now losing nearly $15m annually, according to Proofpoint. The security vendor commissioned the Ponemon Institute to poll nearly 600 IT and IT security practitioners to compile its latest Cost of Phishing study. It revealed that the average large US organization loses $14.8m per year to phishing-related cybercrime, up from $3.8m in 2015 and calculated at…
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Security researchers have found yet another critical IoT supply chain vulnerability affecting millions of devices, which could enable attackers to eavesdrop on real-time camera feeds. Mandiant revealed the CVE-2021-28372 bug yesterday after reporting it to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). It affects devices using the “Kalay” platform from Taiwanese firm ThroughTek, which makes software for OEMs to use in IP cameras, baby and pet monitoring cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and more. Although Mandiant…
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A vulnerability in BlackBerry’s QNX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) could pose a serious security risk to critical infrastructure providers, the US government has warned. Microsoft first discovered the so-called “BadAlloc” flaws in April. These remote code execution (RCE) bugs cover over 25 CVEs and take the form of integer overflow or wraparound vulnerabilities, it said at the time. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert warning that the QNX RTOS is vulnerable to one of…
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5 minutes with Rick McElroy – What CISOs should know about returning to the office | 2021-08-18 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy…
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Looking at zero trust from an attacker’s perspective | 2021-08-18 | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. …
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Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited to introduce each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever of $1 million USD to just 20 winning teams from around…
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The top certification on the annual Skillsoft list has a salary of more than $171,000. Find out what certifications you should be working toward. Image: fizkes/Shutterstock At a salary of $171,749, Google certified professional data engineer is the highest paying job on Skillsoft’s newly released annual Global Knowledge 15 Top-Paying Certifications List, which reveals the most in-demand skills and technology areas for organizations, as well as the average salaries associated with them. SEE: The best…
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