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Do you remember the movie “Die Hard”?  Arguably the best Christmas movie ever.  All kidding aside, this movie has a great correlation into Security best practices.  Before we go into that, let’s recap.  The bad guys in the movie were going to steal $640M in bearer bonds.  In order to do so, they nee…

Cloud based collaboration is being adopted rapidly by organizations in all verticals, and education is no exception. Access to collaborative tools can’t be as simple as an on/off switch. School administrators need visibility to prevent the loss of sensitive data and to ensure that students aren’t en…

Today marks another big step in the forward progress of Cisco Spark for its adoption in enterprises worldwide. Cisco Spark is now ready for use in healthcare consistent with customer needs for HIPAA compliance! The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a U.S. healthcare law…

Unidentified Flying Objects, or unexplained aerial observations, have been reported throughout history. The term ‘flying saucer’ wasn’t coined until 1947, when an amateur pilot in the US was misquoted in the press when he claimed he saw nine crescent-shaped objects flying through the air like “sauce…

We’ve all heard the saying: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But have you ever tried? I know, I know, you didn’t come here for canine training tips. Stay with me, there’s a point to all this. Anyways, it’s super hard. I tried, and all the dog wanted to do was sleep. Your best bet? You guessed…

Cloud products have a very different kind of buyer than traditional hardware gear.  Sure, there’s some overlap between these two constituents but for Cisco, who has long been a trusted supplier of the IT organization we have a new group of people we’re getting to know: Developers in line of business…

There is a certain value associated with getting in early, riding the wave, and then jumping ship to go to work for the next hot company. Serial startup employees assume folks that work for “large” companies like Cisco fantasize about joining an early-stage, venture-backed technology company and won…

It is all about security, isn’t it? Take every other customer survey and ‘security’ bubbles up at the very top of most respondents’ concerns. One of the latest data points I can share is part of an IDC cloud study in which security was cited as an important concern. In fact, 48% of respondents are c…

What a giant year for Cisco Security! In 2016, we pursued our effective security architecture with innovative solutions – from the network to the endpoint to the cloud. I couldn’t be more proud of our team and the strides we made to bring together so many elements of our architecture in an integrate…