data center security

When IDC consults with enterprise customers or performs worldwide surveys, security is invariably an acute concern. That’s regardless of geography, industry, and identity of respondent (executive, LoB, IT, DevOps, etc.). While the challenge of providing protection and security extends across all pla…

Application security is top-of-mind for all of our customers. Companies are expanding to the cloud, and with the proliferation of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) accessing applications, the environment outside of the data center is becoming more difficult to secure. That is why it is imperative that ou…

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In the recently released Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report, 2017 saw growth in malware targeted at ransom or profit motives, but also the destruction of systems and data. Malware continues to get more sophisticated and is now able to elude sophisticated sandboxing environments.  Encryption cont…

There have been a number of articles written on data center outages and their business costs of lost productivity, infrastructure damage, loss of brand reputation and goodwill in the marketplace, and litigation costs.  Data center outages can occur from a number of factors such as such as component…

If you were to ask any security administrator who had to manage the security policies across an organization, they would probably define the “5-Tuple” as a “hard to understand, cryptic method leftover from the 1990s’ policy management for implementing access control and segmentation capabilities in…

As data center operations managers and business owners analyze their budgets to uncover economic headwinds, the importance of deriving ROI from each purchase and initiative is considered. To better understand the costs and benefits of the Cisco Secure Data Center Solution, we engaged with analyst fi…

The data center landscape is undergoing remarkable transformation and security is being forced to evolve as organizations embrace more dynamic services. For instance, Gartner predicts 17.9% CAGR in cloud services usage through 2016. As such, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) will need to c…