Cisco Blogs / Partner / Sneak Peek at Exclusive Cisco Live Content I’m looking forward to the end of the month when we’ll TURN IT UP at Cisco Live. While I can’t wait to see all the new Cisco technology that will be announced and how this helps meet our customers’ needs, I’m even more excited about the exclusive content we have planned just for our partners and distributors. Be sure to register for the…
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Hadeel Ayoub, Founder and CEO of BrightSign This blog post comes from Hadeel Ayoub, a London-based designer, programmer, and researcher in human computer interactions. Hadeel is the Founder and CEO of BrightSign and the inventor of a smart glove that assists people with hearing impairments to sign and translate with others. Hear how Hadeel’s using technology to change the world at the upcoming Women Rock-IT broadcast on April 22. I was born into a family…
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Sigstore could eliminate the headaches associated with current software signing technology through public ledgers. The Linux Foundation, in partnership with Red Hat, Google and Purdue University, has announced a new digital signing project, potentially eliminating many of the headaches that come with securing open source software, files, images and binaries. Called sigstore, the new cryptographic signing platform uses public logging similar to (but not the same as) cryptocurrencies and other blockchain technologies, the end result…
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YouMail, an anti-spam call company claims that in 2020 robocalls actually declined by 22% from 2019. I don’t believe it. Mind you, even with the drop, the company claims there were still an estimated 45.9 billion robocalls. That’s an insane number of calls, and I swear many of them went right to my number. Lots of you just ignore phone calls from numbers you don’t know. As a journalist, I don’t have that luxury. I…
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Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals. In a press release, Europol said that crime-fighting authorities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands had not only arrested a large number of suspected criminals, but also shut down the SKY ECC communication platform. According to Europol, authorities have been able to monitor “the information flow of…
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Security event management company Sumo Logic has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire DF Labs S.p.A. The deal will allow Sumo Logic to incorporate DFLabs’ security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) software into its cloud-native SIEM solution. Sumo Logic said these new capabilities are especially important amid the rapid digital transformation taking place across organizations since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes increased cloud adoption and the shift to remote working….
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The transition by K-12 schools to hybrid learning environments for engaging students has helped them continue their missions of providing quality education to students, despite the challenges of distance, unexpected sickness or limited resources. But once the pandemic wanes, will teaching and learning “return to normal” and look like it did before the pandemic? With an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine what education can and should look like, now is the time to discuss that question…
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Part 1: Top threat categories When it comes to security, deciding where to dedicate resources is vital. To do so, it’s important to know what security issues are most likely to crop up within your organization, and their potential impact. The challenge is that the most active threats change over time, as the prevalence of different attacks ebb and flows. This is where it becomes helpful to know about the larger trends on the threat…
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Cloud data management company Rubrik has announced the appointment of Ajay Sabhlok to the dual role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Data Officer (CDO). Sabhlok has more than 10 years of experience in the technology industry and first joined Rubrik as VP and head of IT enterprise business applications in 2018, developing its IT applications and architecture functions. Prior to that, he oversaw various IT application portfolios at VMware including business intelligence, advanced…
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Almost a third (30%) of global office workers have been admonished by their bosses after sending sensitive business and personal information via non-approved online channels, according to Veritas Technologies. The data protection vendor polled 12,500 white collar workers in Europe, the Middle East, APAC and the US to better understand the risks they’re taking during lockdown. The vast majority admitted to sharing business-critical data (71%) and sensitive personal information (75%) via IM or online collaboration…
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Introduction Cloud computing services have grown exponentially in