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Cisco and Downer Partnership Delivers First Smart Cities Project
Cisco and Downer have an ongoing strategic Internet of Things (IoT) partnership that was recently expanded to include Smart Cities. Downer, a diversified engineering and services company headquartered in Australia, in August of 2017, secured a contract to build out and, with the system owner, co-man…
Cisco Firepower + IBM QRadar: Integration for Enhanced Security Protection
Cybercriminals are more creative, more relentless, and more strategic than ever, working feverishly to extract as much sensitive data as they can, and often inflicting considerable damage upon today’s businesses. Considering the dynamic, ever-growing threat landscape that continues to increase secu…
Cisco and IBM: Partnering for Better Security
Considering the spate of cyber threats faced by customers, the need to more easily prioritize these threats, understand the scope and veracity of the attacks, and subsequently automate the responses, has never been more critical. While many security vendors exist to address some challenges, no singl…
Firepower Programmable APIs for Developers. Learn about them at Cisco Live Barcelona
The Firepower Management Center (FMC) helps manage and monitor Cisco next generation firewalls – also known as Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) systems, and legacy Firepower devices. FMCs are your administrative nerve center for managing critical Cisco network security solutions. FMCs provide co…
Automate Threat Intelligence Using Cisco Threat Intelligence Director
Blog co-authored by Pramod Chandrashekar. Over the past year, cyber attacks have become increasingly common and sophisticated, they were carried out by not only individuals, hacker groups but also nation actors that are well equipped and financed. The sheer scope and audaciousness of these attacks a…
Cyber Security is As Much about People as Technology
Cisco hosted the Southern California Cybercup Challenge in December in Cisco’s Customer Experience Center, and I was lucky to welcome a group of college and high school kids from across the state of California for the competition. Cisco hosts more than 2,500 customers a year in the John T. Chambers…
Developing Network Security in the DevNet Sandbox
A great part of working on the DevNet Sandbox team is the exposure to new Cisco technologies and integrations. Up until recently I had always worked with collaboration stuff. Call manager, Presence, Jabber, Contact Center etc. It’s always good to get out of your comfort zone though and that’s what I…
When it Comes to Network Security, Your Best Defense is Security Everywhere!
New troubling cyberattacks are in the news almost daily. No one is immune. Have you checked your credit score lately? I just finished freezing mine. A national credit bureau breach is the latest wide-ranging theft of data to hit the news. You are probably wondering: “Is my network secure and what wo…
Cisco ACI Ecosystem Brings Digital Innovation to Dutch Healthcare
Healthcare costs are rising globally and making it increasingly difficult for patients to get the care they need. In the Netherlands, one very specific non-profit organization, VECOZO, was founded to maintain cost control in the Dutch Healthcare sector. VECOZO operates the national portal for data e…