If you still only see SD-WAN as a replacement for your branch WAN solution, you haven’t been looking closely enough. Of course, distributed organizations still need a flexible and reliable solution to move data, applications, and workflows between branch offices and the cloud. Traditional MPLS connections backhauling traffic through the corporate network no longer meet evolving business needs. It’s why IDC expects that 80 percent of enterprises will have defined an SD-WAN strategy by the…

Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Talos Tools of the Trade If you’re looking for something to keep you busy while we’re all stuck inside during the holidays, Cisco Talos has a few tools for you you can play with in the coming days and weeks. We recently updated GhIDA to work with the latest version of IDA and we are releasing new features for the award-winning Dynamic Data Resolver (DDR). READ MORE…

If there’s one thing 2020 taught us, it’s that you need to expect the unexpected. If you’re like a lot of people at small businesses, you’ve had to adapt and change repeatedly. Unexpected events like a global pandemic affect your people and where they work. Some small businesses have changed their business models completely, which means they’ve either added new satellite locations or consolidated offices. Maybe you have more employees are working from home or…

While 2020 brought a barrage of unexpected disruptive challenges, they were mitigated somewhat by a variety of technologies that helped people stay safely connected and collaborating. Organizations of all types began using key technologies—from video conferencing for virtual meetings, connecting home offices to work applications, and extending compute resources from multiple clouds to micro-office sites—in order to maintain some semblance of normalcy in decidedly abnormal circumstances. So, what will 2021 bring? What digital transformations should…