Five Ways You Can Make 2021 Your Year with DevNet

Five Ways You Can Make 2021 Your Year with DevNet

2021 represents a lot of things. Proof of resilience. A new beginning. A fresh start.  Small steps towards a return to normalcy. 2021 gives me hope in the future – a future that’s connected, optimistic  and limitless. And for you, the community, it’s a year of all new opportunities to expand and grow your skills, make automation real, and explore new possibilities with DevNet . Here are five ways you can make 2021 your year…

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Cisco DNA Spaces helps businesses weather the pandemic

Cisco DNA Spaces helps businesses weather the pandemic

In a year of unprecedented change, Cisco DNA Spaces helped businesses rise to the challenge. Learn about how the team moved quickly during Covid-19 to help the Cisco customer community build business resiliency with new apps and features for location analytics. As we wrap 2020, I want to reflect on the year gone by and what it meant for us folks at Cisco DNA Spaces. I think we can all agree that 2020 was a…

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Enabling Applications and Data to Continue to Work for You – Cisco Blogs

Enabling Applications and Data to Continue to Work for You – Cisco Blogs

For the enterprise, applications hold the keys to success, but businesses can’t benefit from applications if they’re down or painfully slow. And unfortunately, a majority of organizations still aren’t meeting their users’ demands for uninterrupted access to applications and data.[1] As a result, organizations lose, on average, US$20.1 million annually through loss of revenue and productivity. And there are many other negative impacts from outages and slow performance, such as erosion of employee and customer confidence…

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Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) Then, Now and Beyond – Part 3: Into the Future – Cisco Blogs

Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) Then, Now and Beyond – Part 3: Into the Future – Cisco Blogs

(2020 – Future) Welcome to the third and final installment in our series looking at the past, present and future of Secure Network Analytics (formerly Stealthwatch). Today, we get to talk about the future.  In parts one and two of this series, we covered Secure Network Analytics’ entry into the market in 2001, its evolution as a product and a company, and how that led to Cisco acquiring Lancope in 2016. Now, it’s time for…

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Ransomware Attacks Surge in Q3 as Cyber-Criminals Shift Tactics

Ransomware Attacks Surge in Q3 as Cyber-Criminals Shift Tactics

A record growth in ransomware attacks took place in Q3 of 2020 compared to Q2, from 39% to 51% of all malware attempts, according to Positive Technologies’ Cybersecurity Threatscape: Q3 2020 report. The study also found that hacking accounted for 30% of all attacks during Q3, with cyber-criminals reducing their emphasis on social engineering tactics compared with earlier this year. The researchers noted that the percentage of social engineering attacks using COVID-19 as a lure fell…

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6 modern data stack trends to look for in 2021

6 modern data stack trends to look for in 2021

TechRepublic spoke with dozens of experts who said the influx of companies interested in doing more with their data is only increasing. Data has become the name of the game for almost every enterprise as companies and organizations look for more ways to stay ahead of the curve and identify past mistakes.  TechRepublic spoke with industry leaders and experts who discussed six topics and ideas that will emerge in 2021 related to the modern data…

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Gallagher Appoints Three New Cybersecurity Specialists

Gallagher Appoints Three New Cybersecurity Specialists

Insurance broker Gallagher has announced the appointment of three new cybersecurity specialists to grow its cyber-risk knowledge, thereby helping clients better prepare themselves against attacks. The appointments are designed to enhance Gallagher’s cyber-practice within its UK retail division, which provides clients with cyber-protection and insurance cover to prevent cyber-incidents in addition to protection in the event they suffer a cyber-attack. Jay Lucas has taken on the role of cyber-risk technical lead, in which he will…

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Don’t let miscommunication lead to lapses in cybersecurity

Don’t let miscommunication lead to lapses in cybersecurity

With cybersecurity issues, it’s especially important that users understand the information provided by IT and leadership. Here are tips on dealing with the “curse of knowledge.” Image: iStockphoto/fizkes The curse of knowledge is a well-known concept to those steeped in psychology, but likely unfamiliar to the rest of us. That’s too bad, as not understanding what it means and how it affects us can lead to lapses in a company’s cybersecurity. We may not know…

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Digital Innovation Demands Security-driven Networking

Digital Innovation Demands Security-driven Networking

Today’s networks are distributed across so many devices and environments, many of them temporary and all of them in a constant state of flux, that the notion of a perimeter has been almost completely abandoned. This transition has largely been the result of an application-based business model. Users—both employees and consumers—require immediate and reliable access to critical applications and streaming services at any time, from any location, on any device. To achieve this, most organizations…

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Arista Unveils Attack Surface Assessment Service

Arista Unveils Attack Surface Assessment Service

Delivers AI-driven advanced threat hunting and incident response expertise SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced an Attack Surface Assessment, an advanced security service delivered through the recent acquisition of Awake Security. This new offering identifies cyber security risks from devices, users or third-party systems, especially those that go unmonitored today since they are beyond the visibility of the security team. Designed and delivered by experts who have responded to some of the…

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