Steve Caimi
Industry Solutions Specialist
US Public Sector Cybersecurity
Articles
What’s in a Name? Cisco Visibility Is Now Cisco Threat Response
What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot. A television commercial comes to mind. It’s the scene of a bank robbery, and alarms are blaring overhead. Two people have taken cover on the floor, and they look up at a nearby security guard who’s standing there cool and calm — and doing absolutely n…
Sting Explains the Importance of IoT Threat Defense
Most of you know Sting, the Grammy-winning solo artist and singer/bassist for English rock band The Police. So many great hits over the years. But how many of you know his late-80’s song “Englishman in New York?” I’m an alien The song opens with Sting, the Englishman, feeling somewhat out of p…
GDPR Compliance: Weather You Like it or Not
Imagine this: A weather app that tracks you without your knowledge or consent! An Innocuous Weather App? Weather apps are great. Who doesn’t have one? Like everyone else, you downloaded a free weather app to your smartphone years ago. At that time it asked you to share your current location, as it p…
Cisco Security: To the Tune of the Dark Side of the Moon
As the days grow shorter and colder, I’m reminded that November is Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month here in the US. According to the Department of Homeland Security, this observance “builds awareness and appreciation of the importance of critical infrastructure and reaffirms the…
Cisco and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Benefit from a Fresh and Innovative Approach to Cybersecurity
Picture in your mind a typical US federal agency. Go ahead, close your eyes and imagine it. Seriously, do it. As you think about that agency, pick the first two adjectives that came to mind. Did they happen to be fresh and innovative? If not, then maybe you should take a look at today’s National In…
Cybersecurity in Education: Critical Information Held Hostage
You’re headed into the office, and your mind is on everything you need to finish today. Sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day! It’s a good thing you’ve gotten an early start this morning… But as you approach the office, you notice something strange: Are all of the blinds closed?…
Cybersecurity for Defense: Cisco Supports the NIST Risk Management Framework
In our Cybersecurity for Defense Blog Series Kickoff, Peter Romness mentioned that we at Cisco are hard at work delivering advanced cybersecurity capabilities that support the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy. That’s certainly true, and each blog in our series will further that point. But it’s a…
Tackle the Cybersecurity Problem with a Best Practices Approach
It’s late in the day, and the Chief Information Security Officer walks over to you. She asks you a single question: “How do you think about cybersecurity?” The question catches you by surprise. How do I think about cybersecurity? So many things run through your mind at once: Do I think about it in t…
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