Christina Hausman

One of the key challenge’s businesses face is how to provide a secure infrastructure for applications without compromising agility.  With the rise of cloud usage, containers, and microservices, many companies choose microsegmentation as the means to protect critical applications from compromise.  Ch…

With our recent acquisition of Duo, Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewalls work with Duo to give you the enhanced security your business requires today. Just as importantly, it addresses a concern we’re hearing more frequently from our customers: How to help an overwhelmed IT team. Better network…

Let’s focus on the Zero Trust approach first. If your infrastructure was on the Internet, how would you design your organization’s cybersecurity framework? Authentication to confirm who logs into your infrastructure and multi factor authentication for your Admins? Would you encrypt everything? VPN…

In the recently released Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, 2017 saw growth in malware targeted at ransom or profit motives, but also the destruction of systems and data. Malware continues to get more sophisticated and is now able to elude sophisticated sandboxing environments.  Encryption cont…

There have been a number of articles written on data center outages and their business costs of lost productivity, infrastructure damage, loss of brand reputation and goodwill in the marketplace, and litigation costs.  Data center outages can occur from a number of factors such as such as component…

RATS in the Data Center, a recent blog post by Cisco’s Tom Hogue, highlighted the current threat landscape for data centers. Tom was referring to Remote Access Toolkits, not the disease-carrying vermin that likely started the plagues that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. However, the destructive e…

We invite you to join us for a webinar scheduled for 20 November 2012 where we’ll discuss how to protect Industrial Control Systems using Cisco Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). Industrial control systems is the term used to identify several types of control systems, including supervisory co…

Data Centers are going through a rapid evolution due to industry trends of virtualization, cloud computing and bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives, putting an even greater strain on IT resources to secure the data, applications and access critical to the success of the business. Today’s data ce…