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How To Navigate Your Path to a Digital-Ready Network
As we face the biggest network disruption in 25 years, these tools can help light up the path ahead for IT leaders “Digital transformation” often sounds like the latest buzz, but it’s not. Everything – and I mean “everything” – is being connected over the network: processes are connected across busi…
Quantifying the Benefits of Network Transformation
IDC analysis shows that organizations deploying digital network technologies receive over $48K annual benefits per 100 employees with a 9-month payback. Meeting with IT leaders always fascinates—and often challenges—me. There is always some new insight or perspective I take away from these encounter…
Effective Security Made Simple
Every day companies are turning to digital to create new customer experiences, new business models and gain greater efficiencies. But all the while, attackers continue to advance. To defend against aggressive adversaries, security must advance to more effective solutions that are simple, automated a…
The Service Provider Security Question
I talk to a lot of customers and partners in the Service Provider space, and among the many conversations, I notice a common set of concerns centered around a simple question: have we done all that we can to secure both our own infrastructure and that of our customers? Simple enough question, but th…
Cisco recognized for security leadership at the 2016 RSA Conference
Best Security Company and Best Security Organization Awards for Cisco I speak with customers and partners frequently and I always hear common themes in the challenges that prevent them from achieving effective security. The diversity, rate of change, and complexity of what customers and partners are…
Introducing Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall
Enable Digital Business with the Industry’s First Fully Integrated, Threat-Focused NGFW Today’s world is undergoing digital disruption that will spark more connectivity than ever before, as consumers, businesses and governments leverage digitization to drive innovation forward. Yet, the more connect…
Extending Security Everywhere
Just a few months ago at Cisco Live U.S., we announced both our strategy and several new offerings for Security Everywhere Across the Extended Network. We believe that our vision of delivering Security Everywhere – from the cloud to the network to the endpoint – is essential to reduce risk, gain com…
Security Everywhere Across the Extended Network
The digital economy and the Internet of Everything (IoE) are creating a host of new opportunities. With as many as 50 billion connected devices by 2020, this wave of digitization will spell new opportunities for organizations and governments and the consumers and citizens they serve. Yet, the more…
Introducing the Industry’s First Threat-Focused Next-Generation Firewall
Cisco is a strong proponent for shifting the mindset regarding the capabilities a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) must provide to stay relevant in a world that is dealing with dynamic threats. While nothing is technically wrong with legacy NGFWs, much is wrong with their approach. To meet current an…
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