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Giving credit where credit’s due Now that it’s been a while since we dealt with the initial blows from the pandemic, it’s time to pause and appraise.  First, as organizations and individuals, we should take a moment to express our gratitude for the remarkable efforts that our IT and networking teams have led. Without their contributions to the networks they build and manage day-in and day-out, most organizations would have fared much worse. This isn’t…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between October 30 and November 6. 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…

Did you miss EDUCAUSE 2020? Discover the key trends in Education Technology in our latest blog from #EducationNow. There’s no disputing the massive shifts the world has experienced in the way we learn, work, and play in 2020. Following suit, the way we gather with peers to share best practices and learn from the industry has changed too. Last week, Educause, the premiere higher education technology and innovation conference, looked a bit different than years past: it was hosted fully virtually. Despite a global pandemic, Educause created a space for like-minded leaders, professionals, and educators…

“Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.” The Star Trek fans amongst our readers may well recognise that Spock quote.  And it’s a line that I thought of whilst I was chatting to my latest guest on the Security Stories podcast, Gabriel Gumbs, Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion. Gabe’s role is to lead the charge on where data security is going next, including how organizations…

Part 1: In the Beginning (2001-2011) Secure Network Analytics (formerly Stealthwatch) was recently recognized as the industry leader in Network Detection and Response (NDR). This product journey began in 2001, and through the years, we have had to innovate to remain a leader. Yes, I said 2001. A time when we were still imaging machines from optical drives, Windows XP had just shipped, before the social media boom and maybe even before some of you…

Over the past few years, I’ve worked in many amazing areas within Cisco, spanning Systems Engineering, Sales, IoT, and Digital Transformation. Today, I’m supporting our Partners in developing and enhancing their customer success practices. And with my new role,  I’ve taken up a new challenge: how to help partners drive attach, upsell, and renewal of our support service offers and grow their businesses. As I transitioned to my new role, the first thing that stood…

If you asked our customers and partners what their most important asset is these days you’d get a variety of answers. Everything from infrastructure to real estate to mission-critical applications. To Bell Canada, one asset you can’t overlook is your people. Their philosophy is investing in people will always pay positive dividends. While investing in people may seem like common sense, Bell has taken this to the next level and has streamlined and optimized the…

John Hodson had been on the job for less than three months when the unthinkable happened. With the pandemic grinding the Western United States to a standstill, the new head of IT for Cheetah, a wholesale food supplier in the Bay Area, had to lay off staff and relinquish the company’s managed IT services. “The restaurant industry basically shut down,” says Hodson. “We went from explosive business growth to extreme contraction in a matter of…

When you think of cloud-based businesses, telecommunications companies may not be the first ones to spring to your mind. They should be. Telecom, thanks to software-defined networking (SDN) and Network functions virtualization (NFV), runs on the cloud. Now, Canonical, best known for Ubuntu Linux, has won a significant customer for its Charmed OpenStack: Leading Russian telecom MTS. With over 80 million mobile subscribers, MTS is a serious player, and the company needed a serious cloud…

I’ve written before about how Cisco Silicon One changes the paradigm of energy consumption and why that matters to the environment and how we’re dramatically more efficient than other 12.8T silicon. As the father of two young children, this is something I spend a considerable amount of my free time fretting over. As an engineer at Cisco, I feel fortunate that I can help control the continued rise of carbon emissions by developing products that…