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Few security topics have elicited as much mythology as pipeline security incidents. Perhaps it is the nature of the esoteric equipment involved, the stories of explosions in the tundra, international intrigue, or just the fact that the scale of what could happen, and its impact, is so broad. I happen to live along the path between the Permian Basin (the US’s largest petroleum reserves) and the Gulf Coast refinery belt and am sensitized to pipeline…

Almost all Wi-Fi is potentially vulnerable to flaws that date back to 1997 when it became commercially available, but even the person who discovered the weaknesses says some of them are difficult to exploit. Mathy Vanhoef, a post-doctoral student at NYU Abu Dhabi, has created attacks—FragAttacks—that take advantage of the vulnerabilities, but in an academic paper about them, says the most widespread vulnerabilities can be exploited only under specific, rare conditions, and require either user…

Secure Endpoint offers more as shown in new Forrester Wave report At the publishing of the previous Q3 2019 Forrester Wave report for Endpoint Security Suites, Secure Endpoint was lauded as one of the least obtrusive security products to end-user productivity. Now, per Forrester’s Q2 2021 report, Cisco has increased its market presence to the next level and has moved upward from a Contender to a Strong Performer, well poised to break into the nearby…

As we continue to deploy more DOCSIS 3.1 (D3.1) modems, it is a great time to evaluate if you are getting optimal capacity out of your D3.1 orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) downstream channels.  In this blog, we cover a few items that can improve speeds and invite you to a deep dive on the topic of an upcoming Cisco Knowledge Network webinar on May 27th. Like everyone else, I am happy to see some…

“It’s not often that you can say you are improving security while also improving the user experience, but that’s what we have achieved with this rollout.” – Josephina Fernandez, Director of Security Architecture & Research at Cisco The network edge has left the building. Long before 2020 happened, we were working from coffee shops, airports and client sites. We have been using our personal devices on public or home networks to access productivity applications. Our…

It is commonly said that there are only two types of companies – those that know they’ve been compromised and those that don’t. Cyber risk is no longer confined to the four walls of an organization. This is making protection much harder. Employees are working remotely from company-issued and personally owned devices. They are using applications that reside in the cloud as well as in the corporate data center. These technological advances have made businesses…

Enterprise network is undergoing digitization through multiple technological transitions that include explosion of connected and IoT devices in the network and the movement of applications and services to the cloud. Of the 29.3 billion networking devices that are forecasted to be seen in the network by 2023, 50% are expected to be IoT devices. Cloud based applications and services are expected to be accessed from multiple sites and locations, both on and off of the…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) will conduct a conference call Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. CDT to discuss its fiscal 2022 first quarter financial results. The conference will be available to the public as a live, audio-only webcast on Dell Technologies’ website at investors.delltechnologies.com; an archived version will be available at the same location. The company will issue the results via a press release with accompanying financial statements…

The world stands on the brink of the fourth industrial revolution – the confluence of new technologies like cloud computing, big data analytics, and IoT have reached a tipping point where enterprises can successfully process workloads in the cloud like never before. Indeed, 85% of enterprises will have deployed new digital infrastructure in the cloud by 2025, according to industry analyst IDC. In the US, the cloud migration rate of enterprises has exceeded 85% and in EU…

The past year completely disrupted customers’ purchase behaviors, and the world we knew, both as people and as marketers, was flipped on its head. That is no different here in the Americas, where Cisco Partners are facing the same unpredictable economy. While it may be hard to predict the future, it’s more important than ever that we and our partners start preparing to ensure our customers are ready for whatever comes. On May 11, we…