Cisco Wins “Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025” Award from IoT Breakthrough Organization

Cisco Wins “Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025” Award from IoT Breakthrough Organization

I’m pleased to report that Cisco was named Industrial IoT Company of the Year 2025 in the IoT Breakthrough Awards Program. Since 2017, IoT Breakthrough has made annual awards to industrial IoT companies and products based on quality, unique technology, and market leadership. I would like to thank our customers, partners, and the entire Cisco industrial IoT team for making this award possible. “Most people know Cisco for their enterprise networking products, but for over…

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Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

Darktrace: 96% of Phishing Attacks in 2024 Exploited Trusted Domains

Threat actors are increasingly targeting trusted business platforms such as Dropbox, SharePoint, and QuickBooks in their phishing email campaigns and leveraging legitimate domains to bypass security measures, a new report released today has found. By embedding sender addresses or payload links within legitimate domains, attackers evade traditional detection methods and deceive unsuspecting users. According to Darktrace’s Annual Threat Report 2024, the authors detected more than 30.4 million phishing emails, reinforcing phishing as the preferred attack…

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Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

Meeting the Moment: Innovation for Unprecedented Times 

The last thirty days have been unprecedented. DeepSeek, Operator, Deep Research, and a wave of innovation and competition have changed the global narrative on AI. We’re no longer talking about incremental improvements to AI; these innovations are challenging foundational beliefs and redefining how we perceive the economics and timelines for how AI is going to impact our lives. We are living in incredible times. I couldn’t be more proud of the innovation, velocity, and grit…

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Cisco Learning Promotes AI Readiness with AI Learning Journey and New Certifications

Cisco Learning Promotes AI Readiness with AI Learning Journey and New Certifications

AI is everywhere – and not just in conversation and on the news. It’s in software, in workflows, and across network and security operations. It’s a transformational moment for job roles and job tasks, whether you are using AI or building AI infrastructure. Cisco’s recent AI Readiness Index, released in November 2024, showed that just one in seven organizations are fully prepared to deploy new AI technologies. A lack of skills is a key reason…

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Future Proofing the Workplace in the age of AI

Future Proofing the Workplace in the age of AI

Over the past few years, AI has radically changed the business landscape. As organizations race to meet unprecedented demands for access, connectivity, and flexibility, it’s clear our workplaces need to evolve. Modern workplaces need to be dynamic environments where people and technology intersect to drive innovation and productivity. The influx of IoT devices and AI applications has introduced new complexities. As more devices connect to networks, data demands increase, and security risks intensify. Legacy infrastructures…

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Cisco Silicon One Powers New Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center Solutions

Cisco Silicon One Powers New Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center Solutions

As the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution continues to unfold, service providers and enterprises are preparing to meet its unique demands. Cisco Silicon One has been deployed with hyperscalers building AI data centers at an unprecedented scale. Today, we are announcing three new Cisco Silicon One processor families that extend the scalability, security, and programmability of Cisco Silicon One to new use cases and enable future-proofed, resilient networking for service providers and enterprises.   Expanding Silicon One-based…

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IT Leaders Fear AI-Driven Cybersecurity Costs Will Soar

IT Leaders Fear AI-Driven Cybersecurity Costs Will Soar

IT leaders are concerned about the rocketing costs of cyber security tools, which are being inundated with AI features. Meanwhile, hackers are largely eschewing AI, as there are relatively few discussions about how they could use it posted on cyber crime forums. Featured Partners: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software 1 New Relic Visit website Optimize your business operations with New Relic’s comprehensive observability platform. Designed for multi-dimensional enterprises, it provides real-time insights and robust application performance…

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U.K. Announces 'World-First' Cyber Code of Practice

U.K. Announces 'World-First' Cyber Code of Practice

The U.K. government has introduced its “world-first” AI Cyber Code of Practice for companies developing AI systems. The voluntary framework outlines 13 principles designed to mitigate risks such as AI-driven cyberattacks, system failures, and data vulnerabilities. The voluntary code applies to developers, system operators, and data custodians at organisations that create, deploy, or manage AI systems. AI vendors that only sell models or components fall under other relevant guidelines. “From securing AI systems against hacking…

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Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender

Microsoft Will Remove the Free VPN That Comes With Windows Defender

As of Feb. 28, Microsoft Defender customers will lose access to the VPN that came with the subscription. Billed as “the privacy protection feature,” the VPN included in the subscription isolated Microsoft 365 applications for additional security. It was released in 2023. Why did Microsoft remove the VPN feature? “Our goal is to ensure you, and your family remain safer online,” an anonymous Microsoft employee wrote in the end-of-support notification. “We routinely evaluate the usage…

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GhostGPT: New Chatbot for Malware Creation, Scams

GhostGPT: New Chatbot for Malware Creation, Scams

Security researchers have discovered a new malicious chatbot advertised on cybercrime forums. GhostGPT generates malware, business email compromise scams, and more material for illegal activities. The chatbot likely uses a wrapper to connect to a jailbroken version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT or another large language model, the Abnormal Security experts suspect. Jailbroken chatbots have been instructed to ignore their safeguards to prove more useful to criminals. Must-read security coverage What is GhostGPT? The security researchers found…

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