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“If you want to achieve success in whatever you set out to do, you have to start as though you are hand-in-hand with all of creation.” – Keetoowah Cherokee Saying  From an early age, these words were instilled upon me by my dad as enrolled members of the Cherokee tribe – one of over 560 federally recognized tribes – with roots from Indian country in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are seven Cherokee clans and I’m from…

Cambridge Consultants is working to deliver the largest airborne communications antenna available commercially. The technology consultancy and product development firm, which part of Capgemini, has built a functioning, scaled-down version of a wireless antenna designed to beam connectivity from the sky. The prototype, announced this month, is part of a four-year project with UK-based start-up Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL). SPL is developing a High-Altitude Platform (HAP) and communication system that’s designed to deliver affordable, fast…

A German startup wants to use IoT sensors and a wireless-mesh network to detect forest fires within 10 minutes to an hour of when they start as opposed to the hours or even days it can take using current methods based on thermal imaging, satellite surveillance and human smoke spotters. Dryad Networks is developing sensors to detect gases associated with forest fires and engineering how to network them using LoRaWAN and other wireless technologies so…

As remote work becomes the new normal for many enterprises, collaboration is being tested like never before. And few feel the pressure more than enterprise IT leaders. In addition to delivering performance and reliability, they need to envision how their organizations can use technology to achieve results remotely. They’re searching for an ideal vision of a modern meeting and collaboration experience. What does that look like? A hybrid cloud collaboration platform can provide an attractive…

Your IT is the foundation of everything you create. Whether you’re exploring new ways of working, engaging customers, or driving growth, having a resilient foundation is key to unlocking opportunities to capture new value. Invest in resiliency, an adaptive workforce, and ongoing transformation to stay agile and grow your business. Prioritize IT resiliency for growth and agility In today’s environment, market volatility, business and IT disruptions, evolving customer demands, and workforce changes have all become…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Nibiru ransomware variant decryptor Nikhil Hegde developed this tool. Weak encryption The Nibiru ransomware is a .NET-based malware family. It traverses directories in the local disks, encrypts files with Rijndael-256 and gives them a .Nibiru extension. Rijndael-256 is a secure encryption algorithm. However, Nibiru uses a hard-coded string “Nibiru” to compute the 32-byte key and 16-byte IV values. The decryptor program leverages this weakness to decrypt files…

I love it when data surprises me. In cybersecurity, we’re good at researching how things can go wrong, but it’s harder to figure out when things are going right. Most of our prescriptive advice starts to sound obvious after all these years: least privilege. Patch all the things. Segmentation. Redundancy. Resilience. And always, always, encryption. But which practices actually lead to a successful security program? This year we decided to take a new strategy, with…

The COVID-19 pandemic set a new high bar for organizations and their need for increased business resiliency. When the pandemic hit, thousands of organizations around the world found themselves forced to rethink how to keep things running while keeping their employees safe and serving customers and the community. Cisco was one of them. When work-from-home policies took effect in March, we sent home virtually our entire workforce of 100,000-plus employees, contractors, and partners almost overnight….

The Rise of Digital and Customer Expectations According to a global survey by McKinsey & Company, 62% of organizations are experiencing increasing demand for online purchasing and services by their customers, and 53% believe this trend will continue in the future.  The banking industry is one example of widespread adoption of digital and omnichannel service. By July 2020, contact center usage in banking across the US was up by about 6% and mobile usage was…

Join us for the latest installation in the Global Leaders Forum highlights series in #EducationNow. This week, we welcome back Ronaldo Mota.  Entering a New Era The current era might best be called “the age of algorithms.” If you haven’t had the chance to read our previous blog – an algorithm is a sequence of instructions that tells computers what to do. Computers are made up of many tiny keys, transistors, and algorithms turn those keys on and…