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Part 1: Top threat categories When it comes to security, deciding where to dedicate resources is vital. To do so, it’s important to know what security issues are most likely to crop up within your organization, and their potential impact. The challenge is that the most active threats change over time, as the prevalence of different attacks ebb and flows. This is where it becomes helpful to know about the larger trends on the threat…

Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use. Each shell is a command interpreter. It reads…

The Webex for Inclusive Collaboration series focuses on delivering capabilities for the future of work with inclusive, effective collaboration tools Connected Devices to Deliver Connected Experiences To say that the world of work is changing at a rapid pace is a bold understatement. A year ago, a statement like this might have been reasonable; however, the speed of which we are seeing the workplace evolve these days is unrivaled. And the speed of innovation required…

Astia is transforming how businesses are funded–providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures worldwide. Astia recently launched a $100M early-stage venture fund to address the extraordinary disparity in funding for companies that include women in founding or executive roles. Cisco has invested in early-phase funding to help Astia develop a tech-enabled platform to source and screen companies applying to Astia for investment, and work to remove bias from…

“Digital is foundational!”– Nuno Varandas These were the welcome words from my boss‘s boss, on day one of my new job, leading Digital and Social for Global Partner Readiness at Cisco. My job description is easy to understand: Build the communications platform for distributing content equally and in a timely manner to all Cisco Partners, globally. This means that regardless of your company size, number of times you’ve been to Cisco events, or how many…

A year ago we celebrated International Women’s Day at Cisco. We were beginning to realise that our lives were about to change but we had no idea how dramatic that change would be, nor how long this crisis would last. All of us have had to make big adjustments to our daily lives. There’s no doubt that life has been tough and we have all had to find our own ways of coping with a…

Remember the old days of deploying Anti-Virus (AV) across your organization? Most often, it was a “set it and forget it” approach. It worked back then. Until it didn’t. This leaves us with a perplexing dichotomy. On the one hand, the mindset of the old AV days still persists, where many companies are reluctant to update, upgrade, or even touch their existing security technology. On the other hand, we found in our recent 2021 Security…

I’ve never been very good at fitting in.   From being the only Asian American in my entire elementary school to being the only female in my 8th grade computer science class, I’ve definitely endured my fair share of experiences where I’ve felt like the odd one out. Growing up, it felt as though my innate ability to stick out like a sore thumb was my fatal flaw.   Through the years though, my perspective of…

Rivals Intel and Nvidia are on the same side when it comes to the funding of a startup that promises to make flash storage orders of magnitude faster. The two are among numerous investors in Pliops, which is developing a specialized storage processor that it says allows applications to access data kept in flash storage up to 100 times faster than with traditional approaches while using a fraction of the electricity required by traditional hardware….

One of the great debates in networking has been whether to use wired connectivity—which brings speed—or wireless—which delivers mobility. Recent versions of Wi-Fi deliver speeds comparable to wired, removing this debate. Wired connections are still faster, but for most user applications, including video, there is no experience difference. Looking ahead, next-generation wireless will be well North of 1Gbps, making it a no-brainer to use wireless. The next big decision: What kind of wireless? In the…