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We know humans like to celebrate. The wedding date represents a significant one for many couples and there is a tradition to celebrate again, even if with less fanfare, upon reaching a specific amount of years together. Apparently originated from an ancient German tradition, there is also a symbolic name to represent how long ago the wedding occurred. For example, the golden wedding indicates 50 years of marriage. Cisco MDS 9000 series and IBM mainframe…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

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…

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…

As you read in part one of this blog, due to the pandemic and the resultant exponential increase in digital transactions, Customer Experience is far more paramount than ever before, across all demographics. It is imperative that as financial institutions embrace multi-cloud, the impact of how services are consumed from different clouds but presented in a consistent manner for the desired Customer Experience is vital. Impact of the Multi-cloud environment on CX As institutions go…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between December 11 and December 18. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive…

Authored by Doug Walsten Digital technologies are transforming how people teach and learn. Today, digital learning capabilities have become the new norm to address rapidly evolving educational needs. Network readiness is an important factor in any new IT project at education institutions both large and small. New applications seem to require more bandwidth than the applications that they replace. These applications can also bring in new users, sometimes by the thousands. In some cases, network…