Dan Stotts

Frost and Sullivan recently announced Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) won their 2018 NAC Market Leadership Award. The importance of Network Access Control (NAC) is actually growing, with a compound annual growth rate of 23.7 percent, according to Frost and Sullivan. We at Cisco certainly see th…

See and stop threats using your existing network. If you live in the United States, there’s a 44% chance your most valuable personal data were recently compromised[1]. The silver lining, if there is one, is that this breach compelled many to start actively monitoring their credit report for signs of…

At the most recent RSA Conference, SC Magazine awarded Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) the top spot for Best NAC Solution. In the words of the award panel, “this honor goes to vendors and practitioners who make a difference… and detect, respond and recover from cyber attacks.”[1] Network Access…

Visibility doesn’t just mean seeing data move within the network – it also means seeing who and what is on the network. Trends like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Enterprise Mobility – that will result in tens of billions of connected devices and users – are fundamentally changing the enterprise n…

Networks today are supposed to be digital-ready, meaning fast and agile to propel business into a world where everything is connected. Getting there has hit some major speedbumps due to highly publicized hacks. And this has started a virtual arms race, where no expense is spared to deploy numerous,…

Infrastructure is aging, networks are expanding, and more devices are connecting. The Cisco 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report finds that attackers are remaining active and undetected for weeks, months, or even longer by taking advantage of well-known vulnerabilities that organizations should have ad…

During the last few weeks I’ve used this blog to talk a lot about how the Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) Express License Bundle is the perfect security complement to your wireless network. I’ve written about the ease of set-up, the very reasonable pricing and how it doesn’t matter about your or…

If you’re like me, you don’t like to mix things. The components for my home theater are the same. My tablet, cell phone and laptop all run the same OS. I don’t even like Neapolitan ice cream. Some might think I’m boring, but I prefer orderly. Your network is made up of Cisco products, so why are you…

For a small to medium sized business owners, the thought of creating a wireless network can be a bit daunting. Now add a security deployment on top of that and a daunting task quickly turns into Mission: Impossible. Many business owners share these feelings of technology dread and in their worry two…