NETWORKING

As I mentioned in my last blog, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SASE – but Were Afraid to Ask!,” there are a lot of opinions, misconceptions, and questions about SASE. SD-WAN is dead! SASE is a replacement for SD-WAN SASE is cloud-hosted security with basic SD-WAN functionality added SASE and SD-WAN are different networking technologies However, if you carefully read Gartner’s initial report, “The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud,” that…

The role of the Service Provider’s telecommunications network has never been more critical than it has been since the turn of the decade. During this unprecedented time, the world has seen a total transformation in the way people go about their daily lives. Remote teleworking has become a default for many employees, school children are having lessons online and even governments have begun to legislate virtually between nations. In parallel, the availability of high-end devices…

Guest Author: Frank J. Grimmelmann, President and CEO of Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA) In a previous blog post ACTRA: Nurturing a Cyber Threat Response Community, Cisco’s Peter Romness introduced readers to the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA), an organization which I founded back in 2013. We discussed how ACTRA is helping to foster community in the landscape of cyber threat response as well as train tomorrow’s defenders. The purpose of ACTRA is…

   You hear a lot about bringing your full self to Cisco – passions and all – and I’m here to say that I can vouch for that! We’re not just tech geeks looking to change the world, but we’re dog lovers and cat lovers and, yeah, even bird lovers When I was interviewing for a contract position with Cisco, the standard, “Do you have any planned vacations coming up?” question came up. I replied…

Linux systems generally start out with a large number of fonts available, especially once you’ve installed LibreOffice. Even so, you might find yourself craving some highly distinctive or unusual fonts to add a special tone to some of your projects. If so, you’re in luck. You’re likely to find many thousands of free fonts available online – bold, italic, calligraphy, modern, script, hand lettering, cursive, brush lettering, symbolic and more. Here’s a small sampling of…

There are moments in time when leaders put stakes in the ground that define the future for decades to come. Today, as the European Union is working to deliver a green and digital recovery, I believe we are at another crucial milestone. Laying the foundations of Europe’s digital future The pandemic has shown us what can be done digitally must be done digitally, but it can’t happen at the cost of security and privacy. We…

There are moments in time when leaders put stakes in the ground that define the future for decades to come. Today, as the European Union is working to deliver a green and digital recovery, I believe we are at another crucial milestone. Laying the foundations of Europe’s digital future The pandemic has shown us what can be done digitally must be done digitally, but it can’t happen at the cost of security and privacy. We…

Your company’s stock price nosedives by 15% in a single day. You get a flood of messages from concerned family and friends about your company. Your company’s name is all over the news. Your colleagues exchange hundreds of frantic messages while trying to figure out what happened and how to respond. This is what it looks like when your organization is breached. I know this from firsthand experience because I was working at SolarWinds when…

Earlier this year Cisco completed its acquisition of imimobile, adding an enterprise-grade CPaaS platform to Cisco’s industry-leading collaboration and contact center solution portfolio. The Cisco Financial Services team welcomes imimobile’s Alex Cambell, SVP Sales at imimobile, as our guest blogger this week. Changing consumer behavior and digital disruptors within the banking industry have redefined how we interact with financial service providers. We can now open new accounts, get approved for credit, transfer money to others and…

Visibility is a key to success across a wide range of disciplines. If you’re a basketball fan like me, you know that visibility is important when a player makes an alley-oop pass to his teammate in an NBA game.  It’s even more important for high-risk operations like landing an aircraft in the fog. Now imagine how essential visibility is for securing a manufacturing site. When you can’t see what’s happening on your network, keeping your…