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When Cisco’s global workforce went home to work in March 2020, many of us found ourselves with extra time. No commute. No travel to customer or partner offices. No field service calls. Conversely, those who found themselves busier while juggling different demands at home needed an activity to find some balance. Leadership encouraged us to use the found time to develop new skills and to volunteer through Time2Give, a Cisco program with paid time off…

The Linux sort command can arrange command output or file content in a lot more ways than you might realize–alphabetically, numerically, by month and randomly are only some of the more interesting choices. In this post, we take a look at some of the more useful sorting options and explain how they differ. The default The default sort might seem fairly straightforward. Digits come first, followed by letters and, for each letter, lowercase characters precede…

In my home in Asheville, N.C., I currently have 300Mbps internet to my home office. Back in my childhood home in Calhoun County, W. Va., where I still own some family land, I’d be lucky to get DSL speeds in Kbps. That’s kilobits per second.  It’s no wonder a recent Satellite Internet survey found that 36% of people surveyed said poor internet access was keeping them from moving to the country. As Alexandre Menard, a…

Register now for NSO Developer Days U.S. Invest only 2 hours and you will give yourself time to reflect over the holidays. As a result, you will have more energy in January when it’s time to roll up the sleeves again! If you care about network automation, I will give you 5 more good reasons to register for the NSO Developer Days U.S. on December 16. 1. Be inspired and learn from industry peers Do…

A well-written resume is the foundation of your job hunt; however, resume writing is overwhelming. There’s so much pressure to make your resume stand out, so many formats and styles to choose from. Figuring out how to focus on the most important parts of your career and experiences based on your current job seeking goals is challenging. Getting your resume just right in order to attract the attention of recruiters, HR pros and hiring managers…

As we look back on 2020, the pandemic has proven to be a clear digitization accelerator—especially in areas critical to COVID-19 response. Companies within the financial sector are going beyond the lobby and into the cloud. Some of the key benefits of embracing a cloud-managed IT solution include a decrease in time to market thanks to automation and zero-touch provisioning, the ability to simplify visibility and troubleshoot while helping IT teams get ahead of issues,…

Good things have come out of 2020. More time to spend together with our families, more outside time, and a few good TV shows. Like Cobra Kai. It’s a story of two karate rivals, Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso, on their journeys to build their own dojos, or karate studios. It’s a continuation of the Karate Kid saga. The story packs a punch and teaches lessons on how we can all change the narratives of…

Repeated failed login attempts on a Linux server can indicate that someone is trying to break into an account or might only mean that someone forgot their password or is mistyping it. In this post, we look at how you can check for failed login attempts and check your system’s settings to see when accounts will be locked to deal with the problem. One of the first things you need to know is how to…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between November 13 and November 20. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive and…

The edge is being sold to enterprise customers from just about every part of the technology industry, and there’s not always a bright dividing line between “public” options – edge computing sold as a service, with a vendor handling operational data directly – and “private” ones, where a company implements an edge architecture by itself. There are advantages and challenges to either option, and which is the right edge-computing choice for any particular organization depends…