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Every time I hear about a new cyber-attack, I ask myself: “Is this a new attack vector? A new vulnerability? A new creative tactic?” The answer is almost invariably no. Attack after attack, threat intelligence reports describe well known tactics that have been carried out numerous times in the past. I breathe a sigh of relief and remember Churchill’s famous World War II motto: “Be calm and carry on!” The attack reported on May 7th…

Co-authored by Jeff Tan Cisco and our partners have an inspiring track record of stepping up to a challenge. Logicalis Australia’s Jamie Yoon brings us one such innovation with StarHealth, a leading health provider in in Victoria, Australia.  StarHealth is setting the standard for rapid-response, community health care with Cisco technologies. StarHealth’s lean IT team of four people, that supports a staff of 300, needed to strategically focus on efficiently running the business and responding…

Living in an untethered digital world is now the new normal, where millions of people now work, shop, and socialize remotely, from any location on any device. And they expect to be able to do so long after the Covid-19 pandemic is over. According to one survey, ninety-six percent of remote workers want to either continue working remotely full-time or want to return to a hybrid remote/office work environment post-pandemic. In fact, a recent online survey reported…

In collaboration with Emily Cousins Traditionally, the graduates and interns who join Cisco and work at our Bedfont Lakes office form tight-knit bonds with each other. It is what takes them away on holidays together, after work get-togethers, and cosmic mini-golfing, go-karting, or fancy team dinners. It’s a family unit forged in the shared experiences of starting a new chapter in their lives. When all these in-person moments dissipated with the onslaught of a pandemic,…

Norfolk Southern is one of the largest freight railroad companies in the U.S.  It employs more than 20,000 people and operates nearly 20,000 route miles across 22 states and the District of Colombia. It also supports international trade at every major container port in the eastern United States. Chances are, many of the products you use were transported by Norfolk Southern. But this story isn’t about the railroad or even the trains, it’s about the…

Cisco’s New Intersight Cloud Orchestration (ICO) Service Is Up and Running! Earlier this month, we introduced Intersight Cloud Orchestration (ICO) — Intersight’s brand new automation service. In that blog, we covered the importance of orchestration and talked about how Intersight is evolving to the world’s simplest hybrid cloud platform. This blog will tell you more about ICO and what it can do for you. The next post will dive deeper into how ICO works, providing…

The following is based on an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report, published on December 8, 2020. Today’s cyber attacks are ever-evolving, so we must make investments to stay ahead. These investments include enhancements to the foundational security of our solutions, adding layers of security that help protect against counterfeit and unauthorized versions of hardware and software. We also manage a portfolio of 400 (and growing) products that are equipped with trustworthy capabilities to…

We’re all tired of shortages. Things we took for granted are now hard to find or cost a lot more. Maybe you opened a new online account to locate that thing you need. Ah, the feeling of relief when it finally arrived. But what if that’s when your real troubles began? Let’s rewind. When you opened that new account, you added a new vendor to your personal supply chain. You handed over personal data, and…

It is no news, and confirmed by recent surveys, that people working in Information Technology (IT) sector need to operate within a more complex environment than it used to be years ago. The ongoing digital transformation combined with the need to leverage IT as a competitive differentiator, rather than a necessary evil, is driving the shift to a more complex landscape. Data volumes keep growing, budgets are not. The workforce is highly mobile and distributed,…

Interoperability among network components and end devices—such as Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)—is incredibly important in utility systems. Technology vendors that help develop and then incorporate networking standards into their solutions foster rapid adoption, reduce technology risk, and power innovations. Cisco customers in energy utilities and Transmission System Operators (TSO) are requiring compliance with the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) 61850 standard. In fact, compliance is becoming mandatory in RFPs because it…