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Security posture management challenges are driven by the growing attack surface. Organizations have accelerated cloud computing initiatives and have been forced to support a growing population of remote users as a result of the pandemic. Firms are also deploying new types of devices as part of digital transformation initiatives, further exacerbating the growing attack surface, leading to management challenges, vulnerabilities, and potential system compromises. Meanwhile, security teams are also concerned about recent cybersecurity issues including…

Optimizing customer experience via a superior application and service delivery is critical for achieving better business and mission outcomes. That’s precisely why delivering enhanced customer experience is a top priority for organization and agency leaders across the globe. Customer Experience is Paramount Eighty-nine percent of surveyed CIO and IT leaders worldwide identified consistent application performance across both application and infrastructure as key to driving a great user experience.  In the U.S., under the previous administration, Improving…

Digital experiences dominate our professional and personal lives. There were nearly 1,500 digital data interactions per connected user per day in 2020, and that number is expected to more than triple to nearly 5,000 per day by 2025.1 Applications have become a way of life in our increasingly digitally connected world.   On the personal front, we rely on apps to manage our finances, get us from A to B through online rideshares, ease our mental…

In order to back up a database, you need to know how it’s delivered, but you also need to know which of the more than 13 types of database designs it employs. Here we’ll cover four of them—relational, key-value, document, and wide column—that generate a lot of backup questions. Understanding these models will help the backup team create a relationship and trust level with the database admins, and that will help both parties. Four database…

At this year’s Intel’s investors’ day meeting with Wall Street analysts, CEO Pat Gelsinger revealed new road maps for Xeon CPUs and Xe GPUs that you would typically expect to see reveals at an IDF show that stretches through 2024. Most notable about the Xeon news is that for the first time, Intel is bifurcating the processor line into two microarchitecture types. The two types are a continuation of the current design, and a whole…

One of the things that I have always loved about Unix and then Linux is how it allows me to connect a series of commands together with pipes and get a lot of work done without a lot of effort. I can generate the output that I need in the form that I need it. It’s not just the existence of the pipes themselves, but the flexibility of the Linux commands. You can run commands,…

Many of you will know Cisco from our long history as cybersecurity experts and an infrastructure and network provider, working and innovating since the dawn of the internet. At Cisco one of our driving forces is our vision for the Internet for the Future which seeks to revolutionize the underlying architecture of the internet to close the digital divide and contribute to our commitment to positively impact 1 billion people by 2025. The pandemic has…

As an IT pro, it’s not often that I get to tail a suspect, track down a stolen vehicle and provide digital evidence of the thief’s getaway. But that was all part of a day’s work as some colleagues and I kept tabs on the hijacked maintenance truck and ultimately recovered it with the help of a GPS-enabled mobile router. It happened last summer, and I was on the job the IT department of the…

While working on a base-wide network cutover at a military installation recently, I was verifying configurations on core, distribution, and access-node devices. Using a local host computer on the network, I was connected to the distribution node via an Ethernet port in a separate room and successfully pinged the node to verify network connectivity. Then I tried to access the node using PuTTY via SSH (port 22), the recommended and secure method, and received this…

In the years following the Great Recession, many financial institutions were bogged down with compressed margins, slow revenue growth, high overhead, and costly legacy systems. It all helped contribute to the rise of Fintechs, and Fintechs have been disrupting almost every conceivable area in Financial Services ever since. To remain competitive, financial institutions began their Digital Transformation journey to make workflow and processes automation improvements. Many started off with simple tasks, digitizing analog processes, but…