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It is often said financial services businesses are built on relationships. The truth of this adage lies in the essentialness of financial needs and the role of trust in financial relationships. It’s a key reason why the existence of digital-only financial services has yet to cause the far-reaching disruption seen in other industries. Incumbent financial institutions continue to build trust- based relationships through the expertise of their financial professionals while pursuing digitization to optimize customer…

It’s been more than 3 years since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect, and over two-thirds of the world’s countries have now enacted privacy laws. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges in keeping personal data safe, and most have reaffirmed their commitment to privacy’s requirements and principles. Even more importantly, customer requirements and business value have driven organizations to ensure data is well protected as privacy has become mission critical…

When you type “hash” on a Linux system, you could get one of two very different responses depending on the shell you are using. If you are using bash or a related shell such as ksh, you should see a list of the commands that you have used since your terminal session began, sometimes with a count of how many times each command was used. This can be more useful than using the history command…

Two years into the global pandemic, video conferencing has not only become part of our daily routines, but it has also become the way we do business, how we learn, and the way we stay close to friends and family. It has gone from being a useful tool, to becoming mission critical. Moving a large part of our lives online and embarking on the hybrid work journey also brings up questions: such as which video…

For the fourth UNESCO International Day of Education, the theme “Changing Course, Transforming Education” addresses three main issues: Our relationships with each other; with nature; and with technology. The global report that informs the theme of this year’s Day of Education, Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education, highlights issues that Cisco Networking Academy has addressed since its inception. For example, inclusiveness and accessibility are core to Networking Academy, which has enabled…

Facebook’s parent company Meta said it is building the world’s largest AI supercomputer to power machine-learning and natural language processing for building its metaverse project. The new machine, called the Research Super Computer (RSC), will contain 16,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs and 4,000 AMD Epyc Rome 7742 processors. It has 2,000 Nvidia DGX-A100 nodes, with eight GPU chips and two Epyc microprocessors per node. Meta expects to complete construction this year. RSC is already partially built,…

Looking to offer branch offices and hybrid workers secure access to corporate collaboration, Cisco is melding its Webex software with a key component of its SD-WAN package. Webex collaboration software is being added to the applications supported by Cloud OnRamp–a key part of Cisco’s enterprise SD-WAN offering that links branch-offices or individual remote users to cloud applications. It includes application-aware firewalls, URL-filtering, intrusion detection/prevention, DNS-layer security, and Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) Threat Grid, as well…

Today, most CISOs in the enterprise space have decades of experience. They’ve led teams covering everything from threat intelligence to security/privacy by design initiatives, navigated tricky transitions like the one from on-prem to the cloud, and become prominent business leaders in their companies. Here’s the reality though: even the most seasoned CISO needs help with what’s next. No matter how much experience you have, every day, you’re being asked to define best practices in areas…

In substations, it’s increasingly difficult to meet today’s needs with yesterday’s networks. Maintaining the critical balance between electricity generation and consumption is more challenging than ever as renewable energy sources and electrification continue to evolve. Among the many challenges substation network operators are facing in the operational landscape is the increasing complexity of balancing the wide array of new power generation assets (such as solar and wind), with an equally complex consumption model (such as…

Contributing Author:Chhavi Jain, Product Manager for Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp The pandemic has evolved the way businesses operate, with organizations relying on unified communication as a service like never before. According to a Gartner® report1, 48% of employees are expected to work remotely post-pandemic and a hybrid workplace environment will be the new norm. A hybrid workplace environment will be the new norm in which seamless communication and collaboration will be the bare minimum for enterprises…