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Fifteen months after the US and Europe went into lockdown for the first time, many office-based employees have still not returned to their pre-pandemic workplaces. During that time, videoconferencing apps have continued to see an unprecedented — and unsurprising — level of popularity. And as conversations about what the workplace of the future might look like gather steam, organizations are increasingly looking to firm up their collaboration technology stack to support a shift to hybrid…

If yours is like most enterprises, it is under intense competitive pressure to understand faster, decide faster, and act faster in an increasingly dynamic environment. For businesses, that environment is the economy. But for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the environment in which they must leverage technology and tactics against deadly adversaries is more like a battlefield. And all but the most self-aggrandizing sales directors would agree that the stakes on the battlefield are…

Fifteen months after the US and Europe went into lockdown for the first time, many office-based employees have still not returned to their pre-pandemic workplaces. During that time, videoconferencing apps have continued to see an unprecedented — and unsurprising — level of popularity. And as conversations about what the workplace of the future might look like gather steam, organizations are increasingly looking to firm up their collaboration technology stack to support a shift to hybrid…

Co-Authored by Alexandra Zagury Virginia Supportive Housing’s (VSH) mission is to end homelessness. As the largest and oldest provider of permanent supportive housing in Virginia, VSH’s approach combines affordable housing with individualized services. VSH states simply: “We help people reclaim their lives.” The facts speak volumes:  more than 97% of VSH residents do not return to homelessness, and average incomes for residents increase by 127% within one year of becoming permanently housed with VSH. VSH’s…

Here at Cisco, we like to celebrate people in cybersecurity industry who are leading the fight against bad actors as well as those creating a secure culture for organizations and the people within them. This month, we interviewed Esmond Kane, CISO of Steward Health Care. Read on to learn about his journey and how he leads his team: What were you doing when you got your first taste of cybersecurity? First of all, while I…

A new CEO invariably means a reorganization around his/her vision of things and an attempt to address perceived problems in the company’s organizational structure. In hindsight, that’s another clue that Bob Swan wasn’t long for the CEO’s job at Intel, since he never did a reorg. Pat Gelsinger, who has been Intel’s CEO for just over four months, on the other hand, completely flipped the table with a major reorganization that creates two new business…

Taking on any new initiative within a large company is a tough road, but particularly for a publicly traded one. Three years ago, the CEO and board of directors of QTS debated and then agreed to take on the challenge of sustainability and they asked me to lead the initiative to ensure its success. No pressure, right? Three years later, and many milestones reached, we have achieved sustainability leadership in the data center industry. This…

The new world of hybrid working is fluid. One size will not fit all. While working remotely has become the norm, going back to the office will take many different forms. But regardless of working patterns or locations, the fact remains that we are more dependent than ever on having a stable, fast, and secure internet connection in our daily lives. Bandwidth is now required not just by our laptops, but also by our mobile…

I’m delighted that Cisco Secure has just confirmed our membership of the Security Advisor Alliance. This will allow us to do great things together, for the benefit of security leaders and also our community, and so I wanted to write this post to talk a little about our joint missions, and how we can help you. About our CISO Advisor team I lead Cisco’s global CISO Advisors team, a group of security leaders dedicated to…

I never thought I would work for Cisco. Even though I had worked for several years in the Bay Area with a background in Networking and Security – Cisco was not on my list because I had bought into some of the stereotypes like Cisco’s red tape or Cisco’s political culture which leaves very little autonomy. All that changed when my recruiter convinced me to give Cisco a shot 5 years ago – it was…