cybersecurity
Women at Cisco take on the Cyberstart Challenge – Will You?
Last fall, close to a one hundred Cisco women across the globe participated in the CyberStart Challenge. Cisco is the first public company to test the platform, which involves solving a series of cybersecurity challenges with increasing levels of complexity. There are three verticals, called “Base…
Enforce Endpoint Compliance and Cyber Hygiene With Duo Device Trust
Cisco’s recently released their 2020 CISO Benchmark Report that makes several key recommendations for security professionals to achieve a zero trust vision. The following are a couple of recommendations that are relevant to the discussion in this blog regarding device trust: More than half (52%) of…
Security’s Vicious Cycle
Security Reimagined — Solving an Old Problem with a New Approach A decade ago this January, Steve Jobs challenged the conventional wisdom about tablets, unveiling the iPad with the words, “What this device has done is extraordinary.” Coming on the heels of iPhone’s smashing success three years earli…
Are you leaving your most valued assets up for grabs?
It’s no secret that companies that are investing in applications are rising competitively and having greater customer reach. However, applications have become the number one target for breaches and attacks. Let’s face it, modern applications are hard to protect, and vulnerabilities seem to be out of…
Cisco’s SD-WAN First to Achieve FedRAMP “In Process” Designation
Cisco announces the first FedRAMP In Process cloud-based SD-WAN solution to help U.S. government agencies and their critical infrastructure accelerate their IT modernization and cloud adoption journey. Why Software-Defined WAN? The Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market is growing rapidl…
The road to industrial IoT security
One of the main topics of this year’s RSA Conference is IT-OT cybersecurity convergence. But what are we talking about? Industrial IoT (IIoT) is all around us: in water, in gas, and electricity distribution networks, running power plants and critical infrastructure, in production lines and transport…
A 20/20 Vision for Cybersecurity
As a CISO, where do you see your organization going this year? Perhaps some 20/20 vision could help? If you can forgive the pun, I’m delighted to announce Cisco’s 2020 CISO Benchmark Report. This year we have combined our current standing in the Gregorian calendar with the notion of perfect eyesight…
AMP for FedRAMP: Relentless Breach Defense
Cyberthreats targeting Federal government IT are becoming increasingly evasive and complex. That’s why Federal agencies are rethinking their legacy antivirus solutions. And the best place to start? FedRAMP. Because a FedRAMP Authorized solution means strong, risk-based security that meets stringent…
Is this the Golden Age of the Internet? (Perhaps the Best is Yet to Come)
This week, we released the first Cisco Annual Internet Report (2018 – 2023), a global, regional and country-level forecast with analyses that assess digital transformation across fixed broadband, Wi-Fi, and mobile (3G and below, 4G, 5G) networks. This comprehensive study has been developed by the sa…