INTERPOL to Work with The Coalition Against Stalkerware to Tackle Surge in Tech Abuse

INTERPOL to Work with The Coalition Against Stalkerware to Tackle Surge in Tech Abuse

INTERPOL is set to join The Coalition Against Stalkerware, and will help advance the group’s efforts by educating the global law enforcement community on how to proactively investigate the use of stalkerware, as well as provide support to victims. The alliance was first set up in November 2019 to try and combat the use of stalkerware, a practice in which victims are monitored through their phone or computer. Initially compromised of 10 stakeholders, including Kaspersky,…

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Cisco and NVIDIA Transform Disruption into Innovation – Cisco Blogs

Cisco and NVIDIA Transform Disruption into Innovation – Cisco Blogs

Almost every aspect of business has been impacted from some form of disruption. For instance, our work has changed so much we now find ourselves operating from just about anywhere. We live in a digital-first world with a new normal that is likely to stay with us into the foreseeable future. Disruption isn’t always a bad thing. It can also motivate and feed the necessity for innovation and invention. The pandemic forced businesses to become…

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One woman’s career in tech and her advice for women and girls – Cisco Blogs

One woman’s career in tech and her advice for women and girls – Cisco Blogs

Celebrating International Girls in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) Day has never been more important. Recent data reveals a startling economic disparity caused by the pandemic – women losing jobs at almost twice the rate of men, leaving 47 million more women and girls around the world below the poverty line. This makes exposing women and girls to the wide range of career opportunities available in IT – the world’s fastest-growing job sector – critical to helping improve the…

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Inside Cisco’s performance in the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CKⓇ Evaluation

Inside Cisco’s performance in the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CKⓇ Evaluation

I am excited to share with you that Cisco Secure Endpoint (formerly AMP for Endpoints) has successfully completed the 2020 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation. This round is particularly rewarding because we had to face the difficult challenge of performing well against a set of simulated attacks from the formidable threat actors Carbanak and FIN7. I will not go into the details of our performance in the Evaluation – you can learn about them here instead….

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5 top open-source infrastructure projects

5 top open-source infrastructure projects

Open source software has been a key underpinning of enterprise IT for years, so it’s no surprise that it’s helping to drive the infrastructure part of the equation forward just as much as application development. Some projects are much more influential than others, and here are five that are doing the most to help enterprise infrastructure keep pace with the demands of an ever-more sophisticated operating environment. OpenStack OpenStack is notable in part for being…

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Payment Security in South Africa: A Discussion with Stakeholders

Payment Security in South Africa: A Discussion with Stakeholders

  The PCI SSC Security Summit of South Africa, an online event took place this week with more than 315 payment security practitioners from South Africa discussing the latest in payment security and standards. Here we talk with Jeremy King, PCI Security Standards Council VP Regional Head for Europe, Naniki Imelda Ramabi, Chief Risk Officer Payments Association of South Africa (PASA), and Sandro Bucchianeri, Group Chief Security Officer ABSA, about payment security trends, highlights from…

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Patchstack Protects The Web With Community

Patchstack Protects The Web With Community

By Oliver Sild, the co-founder and CEO of Patchstack Web applications today are built with heavy use of open source code – all of which is largely put together by large communities of independent software developers. In fact, you can find open-source projects for almost everything. These communities behind open source are powerful. They maintain and develop software that many of us use on a daily basis. For example, WordPress.org is an open-source content management…

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REvil ransomware – what you need to know about the criminal enterprise

REvil ransomware – what you need to know about the criminal enterprise

What is REvil? REvil is an ambitious criminal ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS) enterprise that first came to prominence in April 2019, following the demise of another ransomware gang GandCrab. The REvil group is also known sometimes by other names such as Sodin and Sodinokibi. There’s been plenty of ransomware before. What makes REvil so special? REvil has gained a reputation for attempting to extort far larger payments from its corporate victims than that typically seen in other…

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Monitoring your indoor IoT environment – Cisco DNA Spaces IoT Services – Cisco Blogs

Monitoring your indoor IoT environment –  Cisco DNA Spaces IoT Services – Cisco Blogs

IoT Services Overview Cisco DNA Spaces is the world’s most powerful location platform that uses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to give actionable insights and drive business outcomes. Cisco DNA Spaces IoT services has been transforming how businesses measure and interact with their environment at scale. Cisco IoT services has brought hardware, software, and services together to digitize spatial data into actionable intelligence. Businesses are planning occupancy monitoring, air quality testing, contact tracing, and in-room presence use…

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Inspiring a More Sustainable Future – Cisco Blogs

Inspiring a More Sustainable Future – Cisco Blogs

Each year, around Earth Day, we all put a little more effort into saving our planet. Recycling, reducing and reusing more. For years and year-round, I took small, personal steps to help combat the detrimental effects we were having on our planet and our ecosystem, but I knew it wasn’t enough. I wanted to act on a larger scale, and as a Business Analyst on our Customer Experience team, I knew I could – because…

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