cybersecurity

October 25, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Trick-Or-Treat? As Cybersecurity Month winds down, which will your agency pick?

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month draws to a close and All Hallows’ Eve nears, it’s time for one last thought. And it is, appropriately, a dark one – the “Dark Web”. It is the graveyard of the Internet, a maze of death-filled tombs and twisted conjurings that are giving average, everyday…

October 25, 2017

EDUCATION

EDUCAUSE 2017: 8 Things You’ll Take Back to Your University

Get ready to take some serious notes! Cisco’s Higher Education experts have a lot to share when they meet you in person at EDUCAUSE. 1. A new view of Higher Education. The Network. Intuitive. Make decisions faster, mitigate more security threats, and manage the unprecedented scale of connected devi…

October 20, 2017

GOVERNMENT

124th IACP Underway: Law Enforcement Tech to be highlighted

Cisco is excited to be a Platinum Sponsor for the 124th Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in Philadelphia. Every year, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) brings together Law Enforcement leaders from around the nation to learn, network and problem solve about the hot topics…

October 17, 2017

SECURITY

Tackling the Threat Landscape with Innovative Partnerships

As countries digitize to expand economic growth, promote a secure environment for investment, job creation and global competitiveness, cyber attackers are also seeing the monetary and political opportunity to exploit digital expansion and its data to their advantage. The dynamic threat landscape is…

October 13, 2017

EDUCATION

An IT Security Top 5 from the University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is using October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM), to emphasize the creative and common-sense actions they are taking to improve cybersecurity and educate users across campus about the importance of being smart online. Higher education organizations fac…

October 12, 2017

SECURITY

Taking the Necessary Cybersecurity Steps Forward with Federal Government Programs

As government agencies begin deploying cloud solutions and strategizing to meet cloud IT modernization mandates, a question arises – what will the future of the agency look like when they update their systems and start implementing cloud solutions? And further, possibly most important – will cyberse…

October 11, 2017

GOVERNMENT

Top 3 Future Cyber Threats For State and Local Governments

Law Enforcement evidence held for ransom, utilities taken offline and transportation derailed. All have happened in the last 12 months. Sometimes it feels like TV supervillains from our childhood have come to life; CHAOS, Cobra and, worst of all, the dreaded Legion of Doom. But in a world of interna…

October 4, 2017

SECURITY

Securing the Campus

From student data and intellectual property, to reputation and grant funding…higher education institutions are at risk if cybersecurity is not a foundational element in their operations. This fall, more than 20 million students returned to their college or university. Each student will walk on campu…

October 4, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

#CiscoChat Podcast | Ask the IoT Whiz: Defending Your Operations in the Era of IoT

This Cybersecurity Month, I’m pleased to present you with the second installment of the Ask the IoT Whiz #CiscoChat podcast, Defending Your Operations in the Era of IoT. In this episode we take a look at the possibilities and potential threats of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. As connected dev…