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October 10, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Chasing a Dream: Security, Data Protection, Privacy, and the Law

As teenagers on the cusp of adulthood graduate and head into their college years, we tell them it’s okay to not fully know what they want to do for the rest of their lives.  Some, of course, do and will go on to chase down those dreams.  While others may struggle to find where the fit in the work fo…

October 8, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Once an Intern, Always an Intern

This post was authored by Engineering Intern Dhwan Wanjara. As my summer internship at Cisco Allentown came to an end I was filled with gratitude for the incredible opportunity I received to be a Cisco intern.  My time was full of action, a bit of learning, a bit of growth, hard work and a lot of fu…

October 7, 2019

SECURITY

Bringing Cybersecurity Home

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, reminding us that cyber-attacks know no boundaries between work and home, so we need to be diligent about cyber hygiene across all environments. With the abundance of connected devices we all depend on, protecting your digital footprint is no longer optional…

October 3, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Reflections on Cisco Leader Day 2019

I recently had a great experience attending Cisco’s third annual Leader Day which happened to fall on a pretty historic day for us — the day Cisco was named the #1 World’s Best Workplace by Great Places to Work. We took a moment to celebrate this exciting recognition, but then dove in to the f…

Distance + Capacity = Cisco Sets Global Spectral Efficiency Record

Ask any network operator what keeps them up at night, and the ability to transport massive amounts of data is sure to come up in the conversation. Additionally, they’ll tell you that their data might require low latency, that it might be transactional, and that it definitely has to be encrypted. But…

October 3, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

Inspired and Empowered through Cisco Cyber Security

Three months after joining Cisco as a Cyber Security Specialist in South Africa a friend asked how my new job was going, and how it felt to work for such a large, global company. The answer was easy – my new job was going fantastic, and I told her any time I have a question I was always met with th…

October 2, 2019

INSIDE CISCO IT

Principles of Agile Infrastructure

Agile has long been considered an exclusive software paradigm. Agility as we all know is a mindset and as the Law of Conservation of Agility states, it needs to be inculcated. Imagine that you want to go on a healthy diet, and you focus only on lunch, ignoring the dietary considerations of breakfast…

October 1, 2019

LIFE AT CISCO

One Second Every Day at Cisco

This post was authored by Alyssa Cuffie a Cisco Marketing Intern for Summer 2019. Can you tell a story in just a one second video clip every day?  Our initial reactions might be, “No way!” But in Jon Favreau’s movie Chef, his son documents the cross country journey of his father’s food truck by stre…

September 27, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cable Service Providers: You Have a New Game to Play. And You Have the Edge.

Time to take gaming seriously Video gaming is huge, by any measure you choose. By revenue, it’s expected to be more than $150 billion in 2019, making it bigger than movies, TV and digital music, with a strong 9% CAGR.  And it’s not just teenagers. Two-thirds of adult Americans — your paying customer…