In mid-2020, Mark Grayson, Andrew Myles and I published a White Paper (shameless self-plug!) that examined and compared the security features of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G. We concluded that both WI-Fi 6 and 5G provide the features necessary to serve as the basis of secure wireless communications, together and separately, well into the next decade. Our conclusion stands today! A key theme of the White Paper was that the security features specified for use in…

By Mason Coffman, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. The circumstances of the past 18 months have made an indelible impact on the enterprise and has challenged traditional business models. Early in the flight to work-from-home scenarios, organizations had to adapt quickly to changing requirements to ensure business continuity. Today, armed with lessons learned, enterprises are not only adapting to and thriving amidst new business realities, many organizations are also…

As I mentioned in my last blog, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about SASE – but Were Afraid to Ask!,” there are a lot of opinions, misconceptions, and questions about SASE. SD-WAN is dead! SASE is a replacement for SD-WAN SASE is cloud-hosted security with basic SD-WAN functionality added SASE and SD-WAN are different networking technologies However, if you carefully read Gartner’s initial report, “The Future of Network Security is in the Cloud,” that…

The role of the Service Provider’s telecommunications network has never been more critical than it has been since the turn of the decade. During this unprecedented time, the world has seen a total transformation in the way people go about their daily lives. Remote teleworking has become a default for many employees, school children are having lessons online and even governments have begun to legislate virtually between nations. In parallel, the availability of high-end devices…

Guest Author: Frank J. Grimmelmann, President and CEO of Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA) In a previous blog post ACTRA: Nurturing a Cyber Threat Response Community, Cisco’s Peter Romness introduced readers to the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA), an organization which I founded back in 2013. We discussed how ACTRA is helping to foster community in the landscape of cyber threat response as well as train tomorrow’s defenders. The purpose of ACTRA is…

   You hear a lot about bringing your full self to Cisco – passions and all – and I’m here to say that I can vouch for that! We’re not just tech geeks looking to change the world, but we’re dog lovers and cat lovers and, yeah, even bird lovers When I was interviewing for a contract position with Cisco, the standard, “Do you have any planned vacations coming up?” question came up. I replied…

Linux systems generally start out with a large number of fonts available, especially once you’ve installed LibreOffice. Even so, you might find yourself craving some highly distinctive or unusual fonts to add a special tone to some of your projects. If so, you’re in luck. You’re likely to find many thousands of free fonts available online – bold, italic, calligraphy, modern, script, hand lettering, cursive, brush lettering, symbolic and more. Here’s a small sampling of…