NETWORKING

A circle is a universal symbol. The application of a circle is used to safely navigate large cities with round-a-bouts and on/off ramps to major highways. To fuel the world around us with windmills. Its concept is used for fun like a Ferris Wheel at the local fair and the beloved Tootsie Pop sucker. It’s also found in even the most remote locations like Stonehenge, the Great Blue Hole off the shores of Belize, and…

Palo Alto Networks bolstered its security portfolio with products that target enterprise network users looking to make the move to a zero-trust environment. The new capabilities focus on a number of zero trust mechanisms—including  SaaS, cloud and DNS that will be available in June—and will make it significantly easier for organizations to adopt zero-trust security across the enterprise, according to Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager with Palo Alto. As more people are…

At the onset of the pandemic, school closures affected 1.5 billion students across 191 countries[i]. Overnight, educators had to pivot and introduce new modes of lesson delivery to keep learning alive. We’ve seen education models upended from traditional classroom-based pedagogy to fully online delivery. The pandemic accelerated an unprecedented digital transformation in education. With the changes we’ve seen in the last year alone, there is no doubt that the landscape of education has changed forever….

What a year it’s been! A year of facemasks, social distancing, economic crises and home-schooling; a year without travel and without hugs. We’ve all had to be flexible and adapt to new realities — in our personal lives, and as marketers too. That was one of the key themes of our EMEAR Marketing Velocity Virtual event, which I had the honour of hosting on 11th May. Here are some of my highlights from the event….

Cisco SecureX: Year 2 It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we announced the Cisco SecureX platform at RSA 2020! We set out with the goal to streamline our customers’ operations with increased visibility across their security portfolio, provide out-of-the-box integrations, powerful security analytics, and automated workflows to speed threat detection and response. Almost a year and more than 6,500 customers later, we have continued to add capabilities and build bridges between various…

Networks span across the enterprise, campus, branch, and into the cloud. Resources that enable agile operational models to allow the business to anticipate and respond to change are expanding the attack surface and bring with them more complexity. Complexity that attackers are taking advantage of. Meanwhile an ever-increasing amount of sensitive and legally protected data is traversing the distributed network. Securing this data to maintain compliance is a top concern and challenge. And that is…

As more people are getting vaccinated and returning to life outside their homes, many businesses are still accommodating COVID-19 precautions such as social distancing and reduced occupancy levels that will likely be around for some time to come. For many organizations, an expansion of operations to outdoor spaces is not only the natural and safer approach to protecting employees and customers but at times the only way to scale and thrive in profitable ways.  Technology…

Once again CRN has released its annual Women of the Channel List, and it’s an honor to be included. Thank you, CRN, and most importantly thank you to our partners for voting to recognize the efforts of some of the amazing women of Cisco. This year 25 Cisco leaders were named to CRN’s Women of the Channel! Each year, this list recognizes women leaders for their influence, extraordinary expertise and vision within the channel. I am…

Erosion of the traditional network perimeter and the transition to work-from-anywhere have conspired to bring an unprecedented threat level to endpoint devices, users, and applications, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told the online audience at the virtual RSA Conference 2021. Such threats are exacerbated by the fact that over 3,500 vendors offer security products and services that many customers patchwork together, creating complexity that makes it hard for many to build an effective security position, Robbins…

Erosion of the traditional network perimeter and the transition to work-from-anywhere have conspired to bring an unprecedented threat level to endpoint devices, users, and applications, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told the online audience at the virtual RSA Conference 2021. Such threats are exacerbated by the fact that over 3,500 vendors offer security products and services that many customers patchwork together, creating complexity that makes it hard for many to build an effective security position, Robbins…