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Now is a pivotal time for all businesses, but especially so for healthcare organizations. The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation like never before. From telehealth to new non-traditional delivery models, it’s clear the future of healthcare is digital. Consumers now expect a more personalized and digital care experience because of the pandemic, and will demand better reliability, ease of use, and the utmost privacy. Providers must be agile to meet patient demand and to counter…

In Part One of the Cisco TrustSec Policy Analytics blog series, Samuel Brown spoke about the challenges associated with designing, implementing, and verifying security policies and introduced new reports in Cisco Secure Network Analytics that are designed to help accomplish these tasks. In Part Two, I dove deeper into the need for visibility and how to leverage some of these new reports – specifically the TrustSec Analytics report – in order to design and help…

In light of the recent May 2021 Federal Budget, which puts focus on Cybersecurity, the Australian Government’s increased emphasis on protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks is an important step in strengthening our ability to defend the Australian economy and society at large. The Australian Government’s Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020 introduces an expanded and enhanced legislative framework for protecting critical infrastructure and systems of national significance (CISONS), building on 2018’s Security of Critical…

When we look back years from now on life before and after COVID-19, I think it’s going to be surreal to explain to future generations this blip in time we all went through. There’s no going to back to “the way things were”, but at the same time it’s encouraging and even exciting the road we are paving for the future ahead. For retail in particular, the opportunities are tremendous, and the technology Cisco can…

Ready to roll up your sleeves and get back to the office? Many employers are eager to get their workforce under one roof. CEOs like Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon have announced their current remote workforce will soon return to the office either full time or in a hybrid model. The thinking is that face-to-face interactions result in clear communication and collaboration. As more and more people are getting vaccinated, and…

Extending the alignment to include more Cisco products Why should you care? With so many security frameworks, it can be difficult to know where to start from. While many organizations are challenged with managing and improving their cybersecurity programs against the dynamic threat landscape, it’s not easy to pick one framework over another. So where do they start from – ISACA COBIT 5? ISO27000 series? CIS CSC? NIST CSF? SABSA? Or something else? National Institute…

SecureX has changed the way our customers do the work of securing their environments. We have been able to bring together the Cisco Secure portfolio, 3rd party tools and data sources, and a robust platform architecture into which these technologies can be plugged, in a way that saves organizations time and money and increases their security, using just the free SecureX architecture and the tools and people they already have. Along the way, we have…

This blog was co-written by Mirko Grabel, Technical Marketing Leader, and Flo Pachinger, Developer Advocate Get ready for an all-new Cisco industrial router: the Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series. With many new interfaces and modules backed by a stronger CPU and more memory, the IR1800 series gives IoT application developers new possibilities for innovating at the IoT Edge, for example to host applications that can extract and transform IoT data right at the edge. The…

This blog was co-written by Mirko Grabel, Technical Marketing Leader, and Flo Pachinger, Developer Advocate Get ready for an all-new Cisco industrial router: the Cisco Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series. With many new interfaces and modules backed by a stronger CPU and more memory, the IR1800 series gives IoT application developers new possibilities for innovating at the IoT Edge, for example to host applications that can extract and transform IoT data right at the edge. The…

If there are 915,103,765 different ways to set up just six Lego® blocks, imagine the number of options you have when you set up an IT datacenter. Dependencies notwithstanding, the choices are endless. Needless to say, to create a perfectly synchronized hybrid-cloud environment, you need all the help you can get. (Click on the Legos) https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/92127/how-many-combinations-are-possible-using-6-lego-bricks   I have five children — four boys and one girl. They get bored with most toys quickly and…