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With the growing threat landscape, it is imperative for product designers to build integrated security. This means that the security must be total and go across the board from procurement to deployment. This total security allows customers to establish trust. Often the introduction of this security…

My path to cybersecurity looks more like a winding road than a straight line, but it’s the influential role models and valuable information I consumed with every turn that paved my path towards a career in cybersecurity – specifically privacy. I fell into secure networking by chance. I was attending…

Pieter-Jan Nefkens is a Cisco Champion, an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over four years and has earned two industry awards as an industry…

Why software automation support is needed in today’s networks Anyone working in network admin today knows that the network has long since blown passed the days of being managed as a collection of devices.  The days of network admins using the CLI to configure devices, or “automating” some tasks with…

Most of the people who work and receive care at Sentara Healthcare facilities in Virginia and North Carolina didn’t notice when the organization underwent a substantial technology infrastructure upgrade. And that’s just the way the system’s leadership wanted it. To get the full sto…

Here I am again at another Cisco Live! I’m pretty excited about this one, because I’m not hosting anything…I’m really just here to learn and spread some of that information to everyone else. If you’re interested in what Ruba Borno had to say, which technologies she made…

In my last blog, I stressed the importance of migrating to a network that predicts, adapts and protects. Your network infrastructure is the enabler for digital transformation and is crucial to your organization’s success. Once you have the right network infrastructure in place, what new benefits can…

Will You Sniff and Scurry? Or Hem and Haw? One of my favorite business parables is a New York Time’s bestseller by Dr. Spencer Johnson, Who moved my cheese? It is a tale of adapting to change, for change happens and is constant. The way to cope is to anticipate, monitor, adapt, change, enjoy the cha…

Enterprise app developers want to use the power and ease of cloud services with enterprise-class security, and cloud developers want to reach the information in enterprise applications and data warehouses. Cisco DevNet is excited to bring developers a new solution from Cisco & Google. This solut…