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The term automation might conjure up different images, depending on who you are. Some people might think about futuristic robots washing your car, cleaning your house, or even serving you a meal. These are all ways to simplify your life. In the IT realm, it’s similar; we think of automation as a way to simplify an organization’s daily business and increase a team’s productivity. With the ever-rising ubiquity of automation, customers are realizing they need…

On March 15, 2022, a government flash bulletin was published describing how state-sponsored cyber actors were able to use the PrintNightmare vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) in addition to bypassing Duo 2FA to compromise an unpatched Windows machine and gain administrative privileges. This scenario did not leverage or reveal a vulnerability in Duo software or infrastructure, but made use of a combination of configurations in both Duo and Windows that can be mitigated in policy. Duo recommends reviewing…

Juniper Networks has added features to it’s Apstra intent-based networking software it says will help customers secure and support smaller data centers at distributed edge networks.  The Apstra software keeps a real-time repository of configuration, telemetry, and validation information to ensure the network is doing what IT teams want it to do. The software includes automation to provide consistent network and security policies for workloads across physical and virtual infrastructures. In addition, its baked-in analytics…

In episode 60 of DevNet Snack Minute, DevNet’s Manager of Developer Advocacy, Matt DeNapoli, and I talk with Stephen Augustus, Head of Open Source at Cisco.  In this episode we talk about “Scorecard”, and how you use them to improve the security of your open source project. Scorecard is an automated tool that assesses a number of important heuristics (“checks”) associated with software security. It assigns each check a score of 0-10, giving consumers of…

The 3rd Annual Data Science Awards were extremely competitive, representing hundreds of employees’ innovations across 5 categories: Product or Service Innovation,  Customer or Workforce Experience, Cost Reduction, Top Line Revenue Growth, and Benefitting Humanity. And the winners are… Product or Service Innovation For their work on telemetry-enabled hardware failure predictions, we congratulate James Turman, Shi-Jie Wen, Ranjani Ram, Dmitry Goloubew, Amir Mallick, and Ajoy Das! Customer or Workforce Experience For their work on predictive analysis…

Anyone who still needed convincing that port modernization is vital got it during the COVID-19 pandemic. One image in particular stays with me. On November 19, 2021, more than 100 ships were waiting to dock at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Some had been idling for two months, disrupting global supply chains and dirtying the air. Now is a great time to modernize. In the U.S., for example, port authorities and terminal…

Leaders and organizations embarking on any digital initiative need to ensure that experience monitoring is a cornerstone of their strategy. A leading Financial Services company headquartered in Asia found this to be true.  With about 30,000 staff and operations spread across several countries in multiple continents, moving to remote work posed new and unexpected network and infrastructure visibility issues for them. With no visibility into the employees’ home networks, the hundreds of ISPs used to…

The past months have shown an acceleration in managed services to support the shift from customers’ demand for IT services. Of the 302 channel partners surveyed by Canalys last month, 32 percent of respondents reported that managed services would represent more than 30% of their revenue in 2022. But developing and selling one or multiple managed services come with challenges, especially as budget may hold you back. Here are three critical inflection points when flexible…

The following is based on an excerpt from the 2021 Cisco Purpose Report, published on December 13, 2021. What does it mean for the future to be inclusive? We believe it’s nothing short of reimagining how we work and how we invest in solutions to global challenges. Among Cisco’s people, true inclusion means many things: Achieving a deeper sense of communication and collaboration within teams. Respecting one another’s identities and the various roles we play inside…

In November 2021, Cisco’s Global Advocacy team hosted the first ever Cisco Global Advocate Awards event. We celebrated the top-performing customer and partner marketing advocates in Cisco’s advocacy communities across ten categories—putting the spotlight on the amazing work they continue to do for Cisco. We’re excited to bring you a special Gateway Triangle podcast series, where we get to know our Global Advocate Award winners and hear their stories! Our first episode of this special…