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Security is critical when developing new technology and that’s never going to change. Those with ill intent work 24 hours per day, seven days per week to discover vulnerabilities in servers, routers, and security devices that can be exploited. Whether it’s to release viruses or collect millions of dollars in ransomware, tech criminals will never stop committing crimes. The best we can do is protect our hardware, software, and firmware with zero trust and the…

Cisco’s 4Q and year-end financial reports highlight growth in many categories that are important to enterprise customers including wireless, campus switching, routing and security products. CEO Chuck Robbins said that the company’s fourth quarter boasts the strongest product-order growth rate the company has seen in over a decade, citing a 30% product order growth year on year, and more than 17% order growth versus pre-COVID Q4 fiscal 19 product bookings. “In Q4, we saw double-digit…

Cisco’s 4Q and year-end financial reports highlight growth in many categories that are important to enterprise customers including wireless, campus switching, routing and security products. CEO Chuck Robbins said that the company’s fourth quarter boasts the strongest product-order growth rate the company has seen in over a decade, citing a 30% product order growth year on year, and more than 17% order growth versus pre-COVID Q4 fiscal 19 product bookings. “In Q4, we saw double-digit…

Cybersecurity has become a regular conversation topic at my dinner table, initiated by my kids and husband. The attack on the Colonial Pipeline brought us long lines at the gas stations and threatened to close school. The attack on the world’s largest meat processing company, JBS, had us wondering if we’d have to radically change the way we eat. The experiences of just one family hint at the massive impact of industrial security breaches on…

Co-Authored by Alexandra Zagury Vice President, Partner Managed Services and aaS Sales,Global Partner Organization   Braathe Gruppen—Cisco Norway 2020 Cloud Partner of the Year—had very modest beginnings. Recognizing in 1989 that companies needed help making their computer systems work as smoothly as possible, Braathe converted an existing agricultural farm building into a high-tech data center server farm. Today, Braathe is a leading-edge engineering-led managed service provider in the Nordic region that offers worry-free IT solutions….

A Q&A with Dr. Kelley Misata of Sightline Security and Cisco’s Wendy Nather Have you or your company donated to a nonprofit recently? In the security industry, we are always very focused on protecting enterprises due to the amount of money that’s at stake if they are compromised, as well as the critical services that many of them provide. But have you thought about nonprofit security? Today’s nonprofits handle vast sums of money in the…

The term Catalyst is synonymous with accelerating change, stimulating actions, and facilitating transformations. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 family of switches and access points support these qualities for enterprise networks around the world, making it the fastest ramping product in Cisco’s history. Based on a powerful and flexible Programmable ASIC with Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) that unites wired and wireless data planes, the enterprise networking platform has delivered continuous innovations since its introduction, including: Purpose-built…

“I got it.” I breathed a sigh of relief, looking at my wife Maria. The interview with Cisco Advanced Services a few days prior had gone well, and I had just gotten off the phone with a recruiter who called to make an offer. The position was with Advanced Services where I’d be performing network consulting to companies that paid Cisco for access to our engineers and high touch help with design and optimization. I…

Episode 10 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 10 Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 10. Demystifying fiber cable infrastructure, with Brian Kelly. Part 2 of 6. If you search on “data center” you’ll find many images that show rows and rows of equipment racks. The network gear in these racks need to be physically connected to each other, and that’s where pluggable optic transceivers come…

Welcome to our blog series on the people behind Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Cisco. Each blog in this series will highlight a different Cisco employee who works closely with CSR initiatives across the company. Enabling an inclusive future for all requires that we care for the planet we all share and do our part to address global challenges. A key tenet of this is enabling a circular economy, moving from a linear economy where products are developed with the expectation of a…