The Journey: Quantum's Yellow Brick Road

The Journey: Quantum's Yellow Brick Road

The world of computing is undergoing a revolution with two powerful forces converging: Quantum Computing (QC) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). While GenAI is generating excitement, it’s still finding its footing in real-world applications. Meanwhile, QC is rapidly maturing, offering solutions to complex problems in fields like drug discovery and material science. This journey, however, isn’t without its challenges. Just like Dorothy and her companions in the Wizard of Oz, we face obstacles along the…

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Empowering Your Company to Embrace Integration & AI

Empowering Your Company to Embrace Integration & AI

According to the recently released Brivo 2024 Top Global Security Trends Report, the security industry today is bursting with innovation. But there are also constraints and challenges to adopting these innovations. At the heart of this transition is the chief security officer, and their budget and authority to get these initiatives accepted by their company. This is the seventh annual Global Trends report, this year based on 850 responses from security professionals across the U.K.,…

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Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

During our 10 years of DevNet celebratory webinar on March 14th, Shannon McFarland, VP of Cisco DevNet announced a coding challenge for the DevNet community. We call it the Build for Better Code Challenge and this year’s topics are AI and sustainability. We give you a bit more than a month, from March 14th to April 22nd to build an application on AI or sustainability or both that will hopefully amaze the judging panel and…

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Tech Tools for the Future: Zebras, AI, and Girls in ICT Day

Tech Tools for the Future: Zebras, AI, and Girls in ICT Day

I’m excited to announce that Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf will be joining our special Women Rock-IT broadcast to support International Girls in ICT Day, featuring women who have turned their passion for technology into rewarding and successful careers. Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is the Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute  and a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University (OSU). As a computational…

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Navigating the identity security landscape

Navigating the identity security landscape

In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Jeff Reich, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance, we discuss the challenges security professionals are facing in the evolving landscape of identity security threats. “Something we see often is when we were asking the question, ‘how long do account stay active or in your system after someone leaves your organization?’ And certainly there are a number of organizations that say within two days it’s been…

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Securing the LLM Stack

Securing the LLM Stack

A few months ago, I wrote about the security of AI models, fine-tuning techniques, and the use of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in a Cisco Security Blog post. In this blog post, I will continue the discussion on the critical importance of learning how to secure AI systems, with a special focus on current LLM implementations and the “LLM stack.” I also recently published two books. The first book is titled “The AI Revolution in Networking,…

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From Academia to Cisco: How I’m Inspired and Empowered as a Woman in Tech

From Academia to Cisco: How I’m Inspired and Empowered as a Woman in Tech

Graduating with my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and securing a post-doctorate position, I was well on my way to staying in academia and becoming a professor. After a year into my post-doctorate, I realized I sought something beyond the satisfaction of publishing in scientific journals and peer recognition. I found myself standing at a crossroads, contemplating my next move. That is when an exciting opportunity at Cisco arrived. The position — Wireless System Engineer —…

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AI Trends in Program Management

AI Trends in Program Management

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world according to the popular press and the statements of tech CEOs in the last year. There is a lot of discussion about the impact of AI on all areas of business. This post is about how AI impacts program management. As program managers, we build our expertise in a certain domain, technology, and industry and the bulk of our time is spent managing programs, which align that expertise…

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Five AI topics to discuss with your CEO

Five AI topics to discuss with your CEO

AI is the biggest topic of conversation these days. At Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam in early February, you couldn’t swing an Ethernet cable without hitting someone who was talking about it. Even though AI comes with especially useful applications and some very practical downsides, it’s important to know how to frame the conversation with your CIO or CEO before your company invests in it. Here are five things to think about as you’re weighing…

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A New Day for Data: Cisco and Splunk

A New Day for Data: Cisco and Splunk

Today, we are excited to share that Splunk is now officially a part of Cisco. This means, starting now, our customers will begin to see the benefits of the power of our technologies coming together to not only solve many of their most complex challenges, but also enable tremendous opportunities. Cisco – supercharged by Splunk – will bring the full power of the network together with market-leading security and observability solutions. Organizations need to connect…

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