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Part 3 of a 6 part series on the Future of Hybrid Work: Reimagine Security. The future of hybrid work is one with no digital boundaries. But a workforce that is mobile and untethered also increases the attack surface of the enterprise, putting data and day-to-day operations at risk. In addition, the number of IoT devices introduced onto the network everyday balloons the attack surface. Without the proper protections in place, any device could provide…

More than half (53%) of the IoT (internet of things) and internet of medical things (IoMT) devices used in healthcare contain critical cybersecurity risks, according to The State of IoMT Device Security report by Cynerio, which analyzed devices from more than 300 hospitals in the US. Cynerio makes IoT and security systems for heathcare providers. For the report, more than 10 million IoT and IoMT devices were scanned. Cynerio used a connector which, when connected…

AMD has been given the green light by the Chinese government to acquire FPGA giant Xilinx. No formal announcement has been made, but eagle-eyed writers spotted the detail in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal was first announced in October 2020. The U.S. and EU have already approved the acquisition, but in late December, AMD said it had to delay closing as China’s regulators slow-walked the deal. Then came…

Communication is one of the most powerful forces available to humans, and our ability to share complex ideas and build connections drives a prosperous society. In Lebanon, communication and human rights have broken down, with access to education, telecommunication, internet, and electricity becoming a challenge for much of the population. According to UNICEF, more than 80 percent of people in Lebanon live in poverty, and a third of school-aged children received no education in the…

The biggest outages of 2021 had one thing in common: they affected major infrastructure or services providers and, as a result, affected large numbers of enterprises and end users. The lesson? Companies need to be careful about putting all their infrastructure eggs in one basket, or, if they must, to prepare for downtime if that particular service goes down. “There needs to be a plan in place,” says Angelique Medina, head of product marketing at…

Five enterprise network operations managers told me they were very concerned about recent cloud outages. Why? Because every one of the outages were caused by network problems. Four of the five managers admitted that in their own containerized data centers, their problems came more often from networks than from servers. Why is this happening? Answer, according to enterprises: more isn’t better. Complexity is the enemy of efficient operations and management. The sheer volume of things…

This blog is a collaboration between Cisco (Ravi Balakrishnan) and AlgoSec (Tanya Mackenzie and Jeremiah Cornelius) Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) users can achieve policy-driven Application-centric Security Management (ASM) with AlgoSec AlgoSec ASM A32 is AlgoSec’s latest release to feature a major technology integration, built upon a well-established collaboration with Cisco — bringing this partnership to the front of the Cisco innovation cycle with support for Cisco Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) allows Cisco ACI – and…

The digital economy has generated more data than ever before. This places higher demands on data storage for enterprises to run the business more intelligently, smoothly, securely, and sustainably. In this interview, Michael Fan, Director of the Data Storage Solution Sales Department of Huawei Enterprise BG, discusses storage trends and how Huawei is addressing the industry’s imminent challenges and business needs. Industry Trends The key issue that a lot of enterprises are facing today is…

Co-authored by Vishwanath Jakka, Engineering Product Manager, Compute and Cloud Group The Future of Cloud Native Blog Series – Blog 1 Cloud native is fast becoming the “it” destination platform for IT enterprises to better manage public, private, and on-premises cloud application workloads. But to succeed in this new world, cloud native environments must keep costs under control while also ensuring peak application performance. Application workload management and cost control in cloud native environments are complex…

Co-authored by Vishwanath Jakka, Engineering Product Manager, Compute and Cloud Group The Future of Cloud Native Blog Series – Blog 1 Cloud native is fast becoming the “it” destination platform for IT enterprises to better manage public, private, and on-premises cloud application workloads. But to succeed in this new world, cloud native environments must keep costs under control while also ensuring peak application performance. Application workload management and cost control in cloud native environments are complex…