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It’s quite easy to get bash to concatenate strings and do simple math on Linux, but there are a number of options for you to use. This post focusses on concatenating strings, but also shows how one of the operators (+=) also plays a primary role in incrementing numbers. Concatenating strings In general, the only time that you’d want to concatenate strings on Linux is when one string is already defined and you want to…

It’s quite easy to get bash to concatenate strings and do simple math on Linux, but there are a number of options for you to use. This post focusses on concatenating strings, but also shows how one of the operators (+=) also plays a primary role in incrementing numbers. Concatenating strings In general, the only time that you’d want to concatenate strings on Linux is when one string is already defined and you want to…

Semiconductor manufacturer and infrastructure software giant Broadcom will acquire virtualization and enterprise cloud vendor VMware in a deal worth roughly $61 billion in stock and cash, the companies announced on Thursday. Broadcom will also assume $8 billion of VMware net debt as part of the deal. The deal, which is still subject to customary regulatory approval and closing conditions, will see the existing Broadcom Software Group fully rebranded as VMware. The deal is the latest in Broadcom’s years-long…

Hybrid cloud and multicloud have become the norm as enterprises look to improve business agility and scalability, but adoption is not without challenges. A new study from Cisco and 451 Research sought to gauge how enterprises are doing with their cloud environments and examine the benefits and challenges of using cloud-based services. 451 Research interviewed 2,500 cloud, DevOps, and networking professionals for the Cisco-sponsored survey. “While hybrid cloud provides a range of opportunities and benefits…

Hybrid cloud and multicloud have become the norm as enterprises look to improve business agility and scalability, but adoption is not without challenges. A new study from Cisco and 451 Research sought to gauge how enterprises are doing with their cloud environments and examine the benefits and challenges of using cloud-based services. 451 Research interviewed 2,500 cloud, DevOps, and networking professionals for the Cisco-sponsored survey. “While hybrid cloud provides a range of opportunities and benefits…

The total number of Microsoft vulnerabilities reported in 2021 dropped by 5%, reversing a five-year trend that saw such vulnerabilities rising sharply, according to a new report from identity management and security vendor BeyondTrust. A total of 1,212 new vulnerabilities were discovered in 2021, but their severity, as well as their location in the Microsoft family of software products, has changed substantially year over year. Vulnerabilities rated as “critical” on the CVSS standard dropped by…

In an industry known for its tight margins, any loss in retail is significant. Retailers often need to sell many multiples of an item to breakeven on a single loss. “Shrink” is a $60B dollar issue for the retail industry globally and growing rapidly. Most retailers attribute 50-60% of losses to associate actions. Increasingly, Organized Retail Crime (ORC) and Cybercrime rank at the top of the list of Loss Prevention (LP) concerns, along with associate…

At Cisco Duo, we continually strive to enhance our products to make it easy for security practitioners to apply access policies based on the principles of zero trust. This blog highlights how Duo is achieving that goal by simplifying user and administrator experience and supporting data sovereignty requirements for customers around the world. Read on to get an overview of what we have been delivering to our customers in those areas in the past few…

At 578 acres, just to the south of Paris, France, Rungis hosts the world’s largest fresh produce market. With 19 restaurants, a bank, post office, multiple gas stations, a seafood section the size of a soccer field, and a police task force solely focused on this market, it would be easy to get overwhelmed, lost, and spend money on things you had no intention of buying in the first place. Going shopping at this market…

Cisco TrustSec provides software-defined access control and network segmentation to help organizations enforce business-driven intent and streamline policy management across network domains. It forms the foundation of Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) by providing a policy enforcement plane based on Security Group Tag (SGT) assignments and dynamic provisioning of the security group access control list (SGACL).   Cisco TrustSec has now been enhanced by Cisco engineers with a broader, cross-domain transport option for network policies. It…