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IT professionals in financial services have been instrumental to ensuring the integrity of global financial markets over the last year. Their hard work has helped keep the world’s largest economies working and financial aid flowing to those who need it most.  For them, few things remain unchanged from the pre-COVID world. Many network engineers had their hands full supporting large scale migrations to remote working. But aside from that, one constant during this time of…

Cisco and Apple continue to work together to deliver better experiences for customers through collaboration and co-development. Our latest project, Fastlane+, builds on the popular Fastlane feature by adding Advanced Scheduling Request to take QoS management a step further by scheduling and carving out airtime for voice and video traffic on Wi-Fi 6 capable iPhone and iPad. This facilitates a superior experience with latency-sensitive collaboration applications such as WebEx and FaceTime. What is FastLane+, and…

Any time you have a text file on a Linux system that you want to keep private regardless of the privileges that other users with accounts on the system may have, you can resort to encryption. One easy way to do this is to use a feature that is built into the vim editor. You will have to provide a password that will you then need to remember or store in a password safe, but…

For the past 10+ years, IT teams have been focused on consolidating workloads within small numbers of modern, virtualized datacenters and public clouds, but the concept of edge computing is the complete opposite of that.  Deploying and managing tens to thousands of sites at the network edge presents some new challenges and layers of complexity that don’t exist when deploying infrastructure in highly specialized environments like datacenters that are designed to have ideal power, cooling,…

You are probably using containers for your development work (and if you aren’t – you should really consider it). They behave so close to having a customized virtual machine, with almost instant-on startup that it’s easy to forget they’re not really virtual machines… nor should be treated as one!. I prefer to think on container images not as a virtual machine, but as a (quite advanced) packaging system with good dependency tracking. It helps to…

The following is an excerpt from the 2020 CSR Impact Report. Cisco’s networking, security, collaboration, and cloud solutions help secure and protect the lifeblood of the global economy. More than 80 percent of the world’s web traffic travels securely across Cisco connections, and our software and solutions protect and keep private the data of over 500,000 organizations, from the public sector, to critical infrastructure, to the Fortune 500. Given the critical nature of the solutions we…

AV-Comparatives named Cisco a Strategic Leader in its EPR report Cisco Secure Endpoint (previously AMP for Endpoints) was named a Strategic Leader by AV -Comparatives in the Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) CyberRisk Quadrant in their inaugural EPR Comparative Report. AV-Comparatives is a leading independent endpoint security software testing organization withtwo decades of experience. The EPR report assessed how effective endpoint security products are at preventing, detecting, and responding to targeted attacks. It consists of…

Co-Authored by Fabio Hashimoto, Logicalis Insider threats—such as credential theft, criminal insiders, or even negligent employees—are growing dramatically and represent enormous risks for all companies. This is true around the world, as low-skilled, untrained workforces become especially vulnerable to cybercriminals, putting company assets at risk. Enabling remote access to a virtual workforce, for example, can create easy targets for cyber-attack. In response, a Latin America based team from Cisco Global Gold Certified Partner Logicalis took…

Gartner projects worldwide IT spending will total $3.9 trillion in 2021, an increase of 6.2% over 2020 when spending declined a little over 3%. All IT spending segments—from data-center systems to communications services—are forecast to return to growth in 2021, according to Gartner . Enterprise software is expected to have the strongest rebound, 8.8%, as remote work environments are expanded and improved. The devices segment will see the second highest growth in, 8%, and is…

This just in. The sixth annual #WeAreCisco #LoveWhereYouWork employee photo contest has officially launched! It’s one of our favorite times of the year because we get to adventure with you, meet your kids, pets, spouses (oh, and even house plants) through sharing your personal stories. If you’re new here, read just a few stories on this blog and you’ll notice people really do love their jobs.  This year, we’ve created some new contest categories that…