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A Guide for Encrypted Traffic Analytics
By now, you’ve heard of Encrypted Traffic Analytics, Cisco’s latest innovation that allows organizations to leverage the network to find threats in encrypted traffic. Wondering why this is big news? Consider these statistics (Gartner and NSS Labs): … 63 million new devices are attaching to enterpris…
How to Automate Your Network (and More)
A network powered by intent. Informed by context. Growing more intuitive every day. The Network. Intuitive. This is Cisco’s vision, built on intent-based networking technologies that can turn days of work into hours, and hours into seconds. One way for you to get started is with centralized manageme…
2017 Enterprise Network Security Trends
In 2016, there seemed to be constant reminders in the news about the latest hack or newest type of attack. As a result, the security market experienced a significant amount of growth. Gartner expects the cybersecurity market to cross $100 billion in 2019 from $76 billion in 2015. To take advantage o…
Your Branch Could Save You Millions or More from Security Attacks
Like a trusted partner, Cisco is there. With the ISR 4000s, you’re in good hands. Why all the cleverly-crafted references to insurance companies and security at the branch?…
Cisco Umbrella Branch: the Fastest, Easiest Security for Branches
As an organization, providing secure guest and corporate Internet access at the branch can be a major challenge. Not only do you have to protect the enterprise, you also have to protect your customer. Protection is good… but it also needs to be simple to deploy, easy to manage, and integrates seamle…
Fulfilling Your WAN Resolutions with Cisco DNA and the IWAN App
We’ve been talking about WAN automation and SD-WAN for some time. Now, with the recent introduction of the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (#CiscoDNA), it is part of a much broader and more comprehensive architecture for networking. And we’re not the only ones saying it…for example, Dan Conde fro…
Making a Difference One Bike at a Time
“Do a good turn daily.” I was in the 6th grade when I first confidently recited the Scout Slogan in front of my troop. My uniform swallowed the frame of my entire body, but the words left my mouth with sound conviction as I accepted the challenge to perform a kind deed daily—big or small. 8 years la…
Your Right to Choose Your WAN Connectivity and Your Right to Security
Still too often, nowadays, I look at my phone and my stomach drops. I see: “3G”… Even worse, I see: “1x”… I think to myself: It’s the year 2015 and the world is becoming increasingly digitized. IDC’s Internet of Things Forecast states that there will be 4 billion people using 50 billion devices all…
Save money with branch security
Trends like bring-your-own-device, mobility, and cloud computing are creating a surge in the number and types of devices connecting to the network and driving demand for WAN bandwidth. Remote and branch office employees expect fast, secure connectivity but most enterprises don’t have spare operation…
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