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There are moments in time when leaders put stakes in the ground that define the future for decades to come. Today, as the European Union is working to deliver a green and digital recovery, I believe we are at another crucial milestone. Laying the foundations of Europe’s digital future The pandemic has shown us what can be done digitally must be done digitally, but it can’t happen at the cost of security and privacy. We…

There are moments in time when leaders put stakes in the ground that define the future for decades to come. Today, as the European Union is working to deliver a green and digital recovery, I believe we are at another crucial milestone. Laying the foundations of Europe’s digital future The pandemic has shown us what can be done digitally must be done digitally, but it can’t happen at the cost of security and privacy. We…

Your company’s stock price nosedives by 15% in a single day. You get a flood of messages from concerned family and friends about your company. Your company’s name is all over the news. Your colleagues exchange hundreds of frantic messages while trying to figure out what happened and how to respond. This is what it looks like when your organization is breached. I know this from firsthand experience because I was working at SolarWinds when…

Earlier this year Cisco completed its acquisition of imimobile, adding an enterprise-grade CPaaS platform to Cisco’s industry-leading collaboration and contact center solution portfolio. The Cisco Financial Services team welcomes imimobile’s Alex Cambell, SVP Sales at imimobile, as our guest blogger this week. Changing consumer behavior and digital disruptors within the banking industry have redefined how we interact with financial service providers. We can now open new accounts, get approved for credit, transfer money to others and…

Visibility is a key to success across a wide range of disciplines. If you’re a basketball fan like me, you know that visibility is important when a player makes an alley-oop pass to his teammate in an NBA game.  It’s even more important for high-risk operations like landing an aircraft in the fog. Now imagine how essential visibility is for securing a manufacturing site. When you can’t see what’s happening on your network, keeping your…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited for you to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever, $1 million USD, to 20 winning teams from around the world. This…

(Editor’s note: EMA has published “Revolutionizing Network Management with AIOps,” a report based on a survey of 309 network infrastructure and operations professionals who have experience with applying AIOps to network management. This article by EMA Vice President of Research Networking Shamus McGillicuddy further details the results of that report.) Enterprise network infrastructure and operations teams are increasingly recognizing the value of applying AIOps to network management, according to new market research from Enterprise Management…

Ask 50 CXOs what the key to business success is, and you’ll likely get 50 different answers. But according to a Cisco-commissioned study by Forrester Consulting, success has a lot to do with how you answer this question: How adaptable, resilient, and agile are your operations? Or, to use Forrester’s term, how mature are your operations? Mature operations lean heavily into automation. Advanced automation is inextricably linked to an organization’s ability to be agile, collaborative,…

Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the Global 2000 and Fortune 1000 are obsessed with protecting the workforce endpoints as critical vulnerabilities in the cybersecurity and risk management posture of their enterprises. CISOs focus on cybersecurity controls that operate mostly transparently and are focused on mitigating the potential risks to the computing infrastructure’s susceptibility to being breached as a result of actions taken by users, such as clicking on a malicious hyperlink in an email,…

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a wide range of cloud-computing services, workloads, and applications to organizations globally. With Cisco Secure Firewall, organizations are able to build a scalable RAVPN architecture on OCI, providing employees secure remote access to their organization’s resources from any location or endpoint. This scalable architecture brings together Cisco Security and OCI Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and extends remote access VPN capabilities with the combination of Cisco Duo, Cisco Umbrella, and AMP Enabler, also…