David C. Stuart

We live in a time when lines in IT are blurring, and the line between security and network operations is just one example. When organizations are breached, their network is imperiled and business can suffer. Resiliency, performance, and threat defense are increasingly intertwined. No one understands…

Today’s digital economy is growing at a phenomenal rate. All modes of commerce from entertainment to finance and retail have moved on-line. You name it; there is an on-line business for it. Not only does selling occur on-line, businesses run their operations online and virtually with cloud-based pro…

Cisco Firepower NGFW recognized with Best of Interop 2016 Award for Security Each year at Interop, a group of the most influential IT practitioners, analysts and professionals vote on the technologies that are having “the most significant technical impact on their segment and are helping to move bus…

Full NGFW integration yields streamlined security and greater value from investments We know that security, when done properly, can be a business enabler. But as IT teams build out their security capabilities, the lack of integrated solutions yields lower threat effectiveness and inevitably leads to…

As IT organizations look to the cloud to become more efficient and achieve the agility their business demands, one of the biggest security challenges they typically face is right at the heart of any enterprise – the data center. In cloud environments, where applications have to be location-independe…

Why is platform-based a key imperative for next-generation firewalls (NGFWs)? In our previous blog posts, we outlined what it means to be threat-centric, integrating best-in-class security layers with shared intelligence across all layers to combat advanced multi-vector threats. Multiple point produ…