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This is a very exciting moment in Washington. The Biden Administration and a new Congress are working to accelerate a recovery that is swift and effective. Federal agencies are harnessing the potential of technology to evolve the way we work, learn, receive healthcare and even govern. The opportunity for Cisco to share our technology expertise and help power a more inclusive recovery has never been more clear. Today, I’m proud to welcome Waldo McMillian to…

Cisco is pleased to announce two new document additions to the Firepower Forensic Investigation Procedures for First Responders. These document guides help customers and partners triage Cisco products that are suspected of being compromised. These document guides provide step-by-step instructions for first responders that can be used to assess platform integrity and collect information. These new document guides are available on the Cisco.com Security Portal under Tactical Resources, Responding to a Security Incident. Below is a…

The digitalization of our society is accelerating at an enormous pace. Even with this growth, there are still billions of people who remain unconnected to the Internet. To create an inclusive future for all, we must reinvent the Internet and fundamentally change the economics to build and operate networks at massive scale. A little over a month ago, we announced a dramatic enhancement to the architecture of the Internet for the Future, Cisco’s Routed Optical…

I grew up in a beautiful, but snowy region of Russia. Who knew that years later, I would be living my life near the ocean, enjoying the best pastéis and sunny days in Portugal as a Cisco Customer Success Specialist working alongside high professional and creative engineers! So, how did I get here? It all started with a dream. In 2016, while I was still living in Moscow, my colleague inspired me to join Cisco….

The United States holds the unenviable honor of having the highest average cost of a data breach, and healthcare is the most expensive industry with $3.17 million as the average cost of per breach.* This got me thinking about the intersection of healthcare and security.  Why is healthcare such a target? Healthcare is a highly regulated industry. In the US, Federal HIPAA mandates represent the lowest common denominator and are layered with individual state regulations…

Back in March, we announced a unique partnership between Cisco and HashiCorp, bringing together the leaders in public and private cloud automation. The goal of this partnership was to help customers navigate the challenges of implementing a consistent, end-to-end Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy for hybrid cloud environments, reducing the gap between traditional IT operations and the cloud native tooling and processes of DevOps teams. With this announcement, we revealed plans to integrate Cisco Intersight…

You saw in our introductory blog Get Unique IT Insights That Help You Make The Right Decisions Fast – how the global pandemic slammed the brakes on many business activities, at least one trend went into warp speed: digital transformation. This put a heavy burden on IT for seamless digital delivery of the experience underscoring the need for visibility across the entire stack of IT/operations. In this blog we look at connected IT insights from Cisco platforms…

I can’t tell you how many times one of my clients or contacts has complained about the difficulties associated with getting network-budget approval. If I’d never met a CFO in person, the description these people gave me would have led me to expect something like a troll or a zombie, bent on eating projects and maybe people, too. Do we wear garlic when we visit the CFO, or maybe do a chant before the meeting,…

In today’s dynamic threat landscape, IT teams are inundated with security alerts, making security operations difficult to manage without the use of automation. After all, the amount of malware and ransomware being injected into enterprise infrastructure is exponentially higher than the threat detection and response measures most organizations have in place. At the same time, machines can struggle with gray areas and generate false positives. As such, organizations cannot rely solely on automation tools to…

Key Takeaways Going back to my days as one of the co-founders of Immunet Corporation more than a decade ago, the goal was always to deliver the most efficient and dynamic endpoint protection. Long before there was “EDR”, we were already going beyond traditional AV and well into delivering cloud-native detection and response capabilities to defend the endpoint. But we were quick to realize that for us to unleash the true power of endpoint security,…