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Coming out of our first-ever Partner Summit Digital, I know our partners must be energized by how much Cisco is doing to help world economies recover from our historic challenges.  The UN General Assembly and the World Health Organization have called the pandemic “the challenge of a lifetime”, but I believe that, embedded within every challenge, is an opportunity, and this is the opportunity of a lifetime for our distributors and partners. Because we have…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan (RAT) family known as CRAT. Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint. One of the plugins is a ransomware known as “Hansom.” CRAT has been attributed to the Lazarus APT Group in the past. The…

When asked “what is your favorite candy bar?” my response was simple: a peanut butter cup. Somehow, the combination of chocolate and peanut butter in the right proportion perfectly hits the mark. The ubiquitous Reese’s peanut butter cup in its bright orange wrapper always catches my eye at the supermarket checkout. While I usually resist, sometimes I just can’t, and the two cups in the package provide just the medicine I need. But, when the…

2020 has been an unbelievable year and if you’ve made it this far, you can really get through anything.   As we draw a close to this unforgettable year, organizations and the workforce have given remote work a whole new definition. At the beginning of this global pandemic, leaders in the networking industry helped organizations continue work as usual. More and more months have passed and now organizations must build back stronger to successfully navigate any future disruptions.   Cisco has two options that can provide an enterprise class quality of experience…

Being a Cisco employee luckily comes with many amazing perks for all staff to use throughout the year. In particular, a Cisco favourite is our ‘Give Back Days’ – we receive 40 hours each year where we can shut the computer lid, turn off emails, and come together as a team to work on projects close to our hears, and most importantly; giving back to our local communities. (Cisco even gave us an additional 10…

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating, migration to the cloud is expected to accelerate as enterprises choose to let someone else worry about their server gear. In its global IT outlook for 2021 and beyond, IDC predicts the continued migration of enterprise IT equipment out of on-premises data centers and into data centers operated by cloud service providers (such as AWS and Microsoft) and colocation specialists (such as Equinix and Digital Realty)….

Palo Alto is rolling out a cloud service that promises to protect the highly distributed data in contemporary enterprises. The cloud service — Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – will help prevent data breaches by automatically identifying confidential intellectual property and personally identifiable information across the enterprise, Palo Alto stated. Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but most of the current DLP systems were only designed to help global-scale organizations that have…

Here at Cisco DevNet we are constantly thinking of ways to bring innovative content your way. We have Learning Labs; We have DevNet Sandboxes; We have all the API documentation you could ever want and now we’re doing it again. Back at DevNet Day in June of this year, we offered a segment called DevNet Snack Minutes. It was so well received, that, well, we decided to turn it into a weekly show. We know…

In life and business, there are times when it makes sense to invest, to experiment, to take risks. For most companies, a period of societal upheaval and economic uncertainty – with unknown ripple effects to follow – isn’t one of those times. Countless organizations are trying to find ways to tighten their proverbial belt and stay resilient in today’s challenging business climate. And many of them are reducing their IT budgets. IT spending will decline…

Every year, Veterans Day falls on November 11th – Armistice Day. Armistice Day marks the end of the first world war but now serves to honor all service men and women from many countries around the world. Cisco is proud to connect with, support and hire veterans. Our Veterans Program taps into our culture of service by providing training, mentoring and support to transitioning service members, veterans and military families. Cisco is proving amazing things…