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Be in the Know! All things Security at Cisco Live US
Cisco Live San Diego is in full swing! There is a lot going on throughout the week and Cisco Security is showing up in a big way. Whether you’re in person or not, some exciting announcements came out during the week and I want to make sure you are in the know about all things security. Check…
AI in Cisco IT Operations: Finding Golden Needles in Ever Larger Haystacks
Customers often ask us whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be the kind of game changer that analysts are predicting. From what I’m seeing, the answer is an unconditional yes. The trick is figuring out the right use cases. While any computer can calculate pi to a million places faster th…
Why is the New Cisco ISR 1000 Important for Small and Medium-sized Businesses?
Why can a single device be so important for small and medium businesses (SMBs)? How can it run the normal day-to-day operations—such as phones, printers, computers and WiFi? For SMBs, Cisco’s 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 1000) provide an affordable solution for switching, routing, an…
Verizon and Cisco Optimize Customer Experience for Verizon Retail Stores
Even though business has shifted from brick-and-mortar to online, many retail stores are beginning to realize that optimizing the in-store shopping experience is just as important as the online experience. Providing a pleasant and unique in-store visit could mean a direct increase in online sales. T…
Cisco Extends Encrypted Traffic Analytics to Nearly 50,000 Customers
It’s here. Cisco has solved one of the biggest challenges facing the security industry – and now thousands of Cisco customers can start using this breakthrough new network security technology. Back in June, Cisco announced Encrypted Traffic Analytics – a breakthrough technology that identifies malwa…
Harnessing the Power of Network Meta Data: Finding Malware
Probably not a day goes by without someone telling you about a new vulnerability or threat to your network and your data. These threats are seemingly everywhere. In order to protect against these threats, we use strong passwords and encryption. Unfortunately, our adversaries are getting the same…
Reimagining Customer Value with Artificial Intelligence
Here are a few lesser-known data points about Cisco: More than 600 billion emails originate on Cisco-based networks every day About 2/3 of the world’s Internet traffic runs on Cisco Over 20 billion security breaches are thwarted every day by Cisco From this vast amount of data flowing across Cisco…
A Guide for Encrypted Traffic Analytics
By now, you’ve heard of Encrypted Traffic Analytics, Cisco’s latest innovation that allows organizations to leverage the network to find threats in encrypted traffic. Wondering why this is big news? Consider these statistics (Gartner and NSS Labs): … 63 million new devices are attaching to enterpris…
Encrypted Traffic Analytics – Why Should You Care?
I was recently introduced to Dave McGrew – Cisco’s version of Yoda! This unassuming, humble engineer looks like a geography teacher and is the kind of guy who creates encryption algorithms in his spare time as a hobby – just like we might do crosswords (OK, I don’t do crosswords but you get my poin…