I’ve written extensively about the performance and economic advantages of Cisco UCS servers. Just last year they claimed seven new world-record benchmarks, showcasing ongoing innovation in online analytic processing, Java enterprise middleware, and raw CPU performance. But benchmark tests are conducted in a lab under carefully controlled conditions. What truly matters is how well the servers perform in the real world and how capable they are in supporting multifaceted – and continually changing – business…

We recently announced the launch of our fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, with prize money totaling $1 million USD. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is a competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage technology entrepreneurs solving the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory Increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere trap heat, drive up global temperatures, and impact the Earth’s ecosystem. Despite several…

Applications can be thought of as living and evolving pieces of your organization. They are unique, constantly changing and running everywhere. From the time they are written by developers, to being tested, deployed and finally hitting runtime, the application journey leaves room for increased attack surface. Let’s explore how you can you keep yourself at lockstep with securing apps with these three must-dos: 1. Secure the workloads that apps run on Protecting workloads is the…

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…