access control
Cisco Spark and Sofia Locks: Unlocking the Value of Digital and Physical Collaboration
It’s time to say goodbye to markets based entirely on physical products. Welcome to the new normal, the “as-a-service era.” This irreversible process is called servitization: a transformation where most physical products’ value is increased by the addition of companion services. These new services h…
A Steady Drumbeat for Simple, Open and Automated
I continue to beat the drum for solutions that are simple, open, and automated because it’s something I’m passionate about and Cisco Security is deeply committed to. It’s the clear path forward to security as a force multiplier – helping you to improve your security posture with your existing resour…
The Seven Wonders of User Access Control: Part II
In the first of a two-part blog series, The Seven Deadly Sins of User Access Controls, my colleague Jean Gordon Kocienda provided fresh insights into overly-permissive user access controls as a common underlying cause of data breaches. In this blog, I address the solutions to those “Seven Dead…
The Seven Deadly Sins of User Access Controls: Part I
2014 was a terrible year for corporate data breaches. If there is to be any silver lining, information security professionals must draw lessons from the carnage. A good place to start is to identify common denominators. Several of the most damaging incidents started with phishing emails into office…
A Holistic Approach to Secure Enterprise Mobility
“It’s not secure enough… so we are not going to allow it to happen.” Does this phrase seem all too familiar? Today, IT and business leaders are faced with the challenge of securing any user from any location on any device with access to any information. At times, it can be a daunti…
Ferguson Group Ltd keeps an Eye on Operations with Cisco Physical Security
I remember growing up in the UK years ago during the UK’s ‘North Sea Oil Boom’. It was a time of great excitement and opportunity for the nation. A whole industry was developed to deal with offshore exploration to ‘bring the energy home’. It was Aberdeen’s local…
Cisco IT’s Identity Services Engine Deployment: First Capabilities to Roll Out
Cisco IT is deploying Identity Services Engine (ISE) globally. ISE is a security policy management and control platform that automates and simplifies access control and security compliance for wired, wireless, and VPN connectivity. We’re running ISE 1.2 Patch 3 globally and evaluating Patch 5 for it…
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