Maintaining Digital Compliance with the PCI DSS 4.0

Maintaining Digital Compliance with the PCI DSS 4.0

The Payment Card Industry data security standards have evolved since 2002 when the first version was released. The most recent update, version 4.0.1, was released in June 2024. This updates the PCI 4.0 standard, which  has significant updates to both scope and requirements. These requirements are being phased now and through March 2025. Cisco has been involved with PCI since the outset, having a seat on the board of advisors and helping craft the development…

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Downtime Costs Large Companies $400 Billion a Year, According to Splunk Report

Downtime Costs Large Companies 0 Billion a Year, According to Splunk Report

Unplanned downtime is costing the world’s largest companies $400 billion a year, or roughly 9% of their profits, a new report has found. This is the equivalent of about $9,000 lost for every minute of system failure or service degradation. The report, published by the data management platform Splunk, also revealed that it takes 75 days for revenue for a Forbes Global 2000 company to recover to where it stood financially prior to the incident….

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Transforming Security: Latest Innovations Driving Partner Growth

Transforming Security: Latest Innovations Driving Partner Growth

Cisco Security was one of the four G.O.A.T.s at Cisco Live US 2024! I’m here to give our #CiscoPartners a recap on our Cisco Security announcements. Read on to hear about all the security innovation, what it means for partners, and what’s ahead together. Catch up on Cisco Live We’ve been on a roll with rapid innovation across the Cisco Security Cloud. Building on that momentum at Cisco Live, we shared a few big product…

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Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Combines Cisco & Splunk Tools

Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Combines Cisco & Splunk Tools

Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk is playing out with a new full-stack observability product, the Unified Observability Experience, Cisco announced at the Cisco Live conference on June 5. As part of the same suite of conference announcements, Cisco also showed off the initial availability of a free trial version of Motific, a generative AI delivery platform made in concert with Mistral AI. Unified Observability Experience creates easy connections between AppDynamics and Splunk Platform Cisco acquired data…

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Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better Together story to Cisco Live

Bringing the Cisco AppDynamics + Splunk Better Together story to Cisco Live

When Cisco initially closed the acquisition of Splunk, we promised we would swiftly deliver more together, capitalizing on each company’s incredible products and skillsets to bring exponential value to our customers. This week at Cisco Live, I have the pleasure of helping showcase how Cisco AppDynamics and Splunk are making our Better Together vision a reality and how we are expanding Cisco Full-Stack Observability to an organizations’ entire enterprise. In less than three months since…

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Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

Cisco Live 2024: Cisco Unveils AI Deployment Solution With NVIDIA

Cisco will invest $1 billion in AI and package a new networking solution with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, the organization announced at its annual consumer event on June 4. Cisco Live is being held in Las Vegas from June 2 – 6. These and the other announcements from Cisco Live respond to the enterprise trends for AI, plus increased visibility and security. Cisco partners with NVIDIA on Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters A new networking solution from…

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Cisco Security at Cisco Live 2024: Innovating at Scale

Cisco Security at Cisco Live 2024: Innovating at Scale

Every year I look forward to Cisco Live because it’s a chance to showcase all the incredible innovations our teams have been delivering and hear unfiltered feedback directly from our customers. In security, we delivered more innovation in 2023 than in the previous decade. And in 2024 we will deliver multiples of last year. We’ve accelerated innovation to ensure we provide the scale of protection and digital resilience that our customers demand. No matter how…

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Inspiring Innovation at Cisco Live Las Vegas 2024

Inspiring Innovation at Cisco Live Las Vegas 2024

Being in the technology industry means we’ve all had a front-row seat to witness tectonic shifts such as the inception of the internet and now Cisco will impact that level of change again. This will happen with Cisco-driven Artificial Intelligence, which will be on full display at Cisco Live in Las Vegas! To assist you in this journey at Cisco Live, and beyond, is the Partner Launch Experience. This curated launch experience takes you through…

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Cisco’s Splunk Acquisition Should Help Security Pros See Threats Sooner in Australia and New Zealand

Cisco’s Splunk Acquisition Should Help Security Pros See Threats Sooner in Australia and New Zealand

Cisco announced in 2023 it would acquire Splunk for US $28 billion (AU $42.4 billion). Described as “the Moby Dick” of deals, it aimed to combine Cisco’s extended detection and response systems with Splunk’s security information and event management tech. Because of both Splunk and Cisco’s existing customer bases in Australia and New Zealand, this is big news for these local markets. Since the deal closed in March 2024, customers have been wondering what the…

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RSA: Google Enhances its Enterprise SecOps Offerings With Gemini AI

RSA: Google Enhances its Enterprise SecOps Offerings With Gemini AI

The RSA Conference, held in San Francisco from May 6-9, brings together cybersecurity professionals from across the world. This year’s conference is buzzing with conversation about generative AI: how to use generative AI to protect against attacks and how to secure generative AI itself. We’re rounding up the enterprise business tech news from RSA that is most relevant for IT and tech decision-makers. This article will be updated throughout RSA with more tech news highlights….

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