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Recently Richard Archdeacon, advisory CISO and Josh Green, Technical Strategist at Duo Security, gave a virtual keynote presentation at the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2021 in Berlin where they discussed the Future of Work. We sat down with them both to get the lowdown of what they covered around this fascinating and constantly evolving area, and the key considerations they think CISOs and senior leaders should focus on in 2022.  Q: It’s pretty irrefutable that the…

In collaboration with Jon Heaton and Roel Bernaerts   Cisco IT started implementing SASE architectures well before Gartner coined the term. SASE has provided efficiency, security, and flexibility to our global network. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has quickly become one of the hottest topics related to cloud, networking, and security architectures. As Cisco engineers, we have seen hesitation and confusion among some customers on what SASE really means. We hope to answer most of…

IBM continues to evolve the services that will keep its z/OS mainframes at the heart of the growing enterprise cloud-application development. Big Blue has rolled out two new services—IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack 2022, and Wazi as-a-Service—that will let customers more easily develop and test mainframe applications as-a-service in a public cloud environment. IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack 2022.1.1 offers industry-standard tools to modernize z/OS applications on a pay-per-use basis. For example, the…

IBM continues to evolve the services that will keep its z/OS mainframes at the heart of the growing enterprise cloud-application development. Big Blue has rolled out two new services—IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack 2022, and Wazi as-a-Service—that will let customers more easily develop and test mainframe applications as-a-service in a public cloud environment. IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Stack 2022.1.1 offers industry-standard tools to modernize z/OS applications on a pay-per-use basis. For example, the…

The winds are shifting There was a time in networking when the mindset was all about cutting procurement costs for your networking hardware. And while I have heard from many customers how our hardware is notorious for its durability, this notion of ‘sweating assets’ really isn’t a sustainable strategy. That is especially the case when you consider all the new demands being placed on the network in today’s cloud-first, software-defined, application-centric environment.  In fact, with…

Research and real-world results highlight the many benefits of secure access service edge (SASE) SASE is still an evolving concept, but it has managed to make its way into many of today’s security conversations. Why? Because over the years, cybersecurity has become more complex, costly, and time-consuming – and SASE is one great way to fix it. What is SASE? First defined by Gartner, the term SASE (which stands for secure access service edge) refers…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Ravi Balakrishnan (Cisco) and Patrick Campbell (F5) F5 Agility Event Next week’s F5’s Agility 2022 event is entitled “Secure. Simplify. Innovate” which I thought relates really well to Cisco-F5 joint solutions. I say this because our joint focus has consistently involved building solutions for the benefit of our joint users.  We strive to move beyond the boundaries we commonly encounter to simplify and innovate around application deployment. Latest…

Black History Month is an opportunity for reflection and education. For me, it began with my experience attending segregated schools until 1972. My experience with racism and segregation shaped my decision to attend North Carolina Central University (NCCU), one of our nation’s Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). For the first time, I learned about heroes in American history that looked like me. This unlocked a sense of belonging and possibility that has continued to…

A network service is only as good as its health. Hence, it is crucial that end-to-end management of network services should include health monitoring as part of the network service life cycle. When we talk about automating a network service, we mean automating the provisioning and maintenance of a network service. Health monitoring of a network service is typically thought of as a separate operation that is added after the network service is provisioned. Health…

Power, they say, corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. While that was said about politics, it sure seems like it was tailor-made for smart buildings. Facility-control technology is exploding because the concept is useful and often saves money. Unfortunately, smart devices have also proven to be an on-ramp for major intrusions. Smart buildings are surely absolutely powerful in a way; are they absolutely corruptible? Maybe, if we’re not very careful. If corruption means overall bad-ness,…