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When you find yourself on a business trip and forget the code to your corporate AmEx, you know you haven’t been on the road for a while. This is why I found myself making a frantic search through my online files while I was trying to check in at the hotel for the awesome NDC Security Conference in Oslo:  I hadn’t been to a conference since Cisco Live in Barcelona in 2020.   NDC Security was…

A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated, high-speed network that provides access to block-level storage. SANs were adopted to improve application availability and performance by segregating storage traffic from the rest of the LAN.  SANs enable enterprises to more easily allocate and manage storage resources, achieving better efficiency. “Instead of having isolated storage capacities across different servers, you can share a pool of capacity across a bunch of different workloads and carve it up…

“Change is the only constant in life” – this famous quote by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus is often used in a positive light. Try saying this to a network administrator, however, who constantly has to deal with changes in the network environment, and he will likely frown!  Over the past few years, SD-WAN has evolved to securely connect the hybrid workforce of an organization to applications deployed across multiple clouds and data centers. Typically, SD-WAN…

Cybersecurity remains top of mind for healthcare, as it is the most targeted industry, incurring the highest average cost of a breach ($9.2M), with the slowest incidence response time (287 days).1 As a healthcare community, we have faced new challenges over the last twenty-four months. While the pandemic has created many new hurdles for the healthcare sector, it also became the catalyst for healthcare innovation and transformation and has accelerated change. Examples of this change…

The following is based on an excerpt from the 2021 Cisco Purpose Report, published on December 13, 2021. Sustainability means protecting the Earth’s resources and ensuring a livable planet, not just today, but for generations to come. An inclusive future that provides promise and opportunity for all must include a deep focus on sustainability and address environmental impacts. A key priority for Cisco is continuing to improve the performance of our products while maintaining, or decreasing,…

Introducing new commercial devices built on collaboration and performance. By Rahul Tikoo ROUND ROCK, Texas, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The concept of Hybrid Work is unique to each of us. It means something different to everyone but with it comes an overwhelming sense of change and opportunity to redefine your relationship with work. How and where you do that is entirely up to you. To help you embrace the dynamics of the hybrid world, we…

For my very first interview for the Security Stories podcast, I met a wonderful person called Mick Jenkins, MBE. Mick is sadly no longer with us, but his story will stay with me forever. One of Mick’s philosophies was centred around the importance of cyber resilience. “Improvise, adapt, overcome” are the words he used. This philosophy helped him when he got lost in the wilderness at age 14. It helped him when he became a…

The future of financial services will be shaped by the ability of financial institutions to extract and deliver more customer value from data. The convergence of mobile, cloud, and IoT technologies continues to create new opportunities for institutions to deliver personalized and contextual financial services. Those opportunities will rely on data and analytics for real-time decision making. Some familiar examples are receiving banking fraud alerts on mobile devices, submitting photos for insurance adjustments, or using…

Wordle—the online game that gives you six tries to guess a five-letter word—has gone viral recently, and while it’s fun, it can also be pretty hard. So, as a bash-scripting enthusiast, I figured I’d see if I could come up with a script that would help me cheat. The game itself is fairly simple. After you enter a five-letter guess, the game indicates which of its letters are not in the mystery word by setting…

By: Sylvia Hooks, CMO at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Big ideas come from inspired people who believe they have a better way. Over the course of the past year, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, scoured the globe to meet those inspired people. We call them “digital revolutionaries,” those who have incorporated Aruba’s technological capabilities to reimagine a world of new possibilities, whether to improve personal experiences or to achieve specific business priorities….