firewall
Cisco RV340 Series Contest Update – First Week’s Winner
Hello Friends, I would like to announce the first week’s winner is Nathan Parker of Mallard Computer in Arkansas! Nathan (@mallardnathan) will be receiving his “care package” in a couple of weeks. Congratulations to you! Please stay tuned here for updates, and please continue to en…
New Cisco FindIT Network Management Platform
Friends, The team is excited, especially our FindIT Product Manager, David Harper for the announcement of his Network Monitoring and Management Platform. But why? Today’s market offers businesses a wide range of networking options. There’s more than a handful of ways to provide your business b…
Team Updates including new programs, recent launches and a new video
Hello all. I trust it has been a good week for you. I am happy to report I am back in-country here in Southern California after a week in Shanghai. I went to visit my fantastic technical product team as we kicked off a new program that will bring five new models in the next couple of years. Exciting…
Firepower NGFW Steps up to Deliver Greater Effectiveness with Reduced Costs and Complexity
Full NGFW integration yields streamlined security and greater value from investments We know that security, when done properly, can be a business enabler. But as IT teams build out their security capabilities, the lack of integrated solutions yields lower threat effectiveness and inevitably leads to…
Introducing Cisco Firepower 4100 Series Next-Generation Firewall
Enable Digital Business with the Industry’s First Fully Integrated, Threat-Focused NGFW Today’s world is undergoing digital disruption that will spark more connectivity than ever before, as consumers, businesses and governments leverage digitization to drive innovation forward. Yet, the more connect…
Threat-Focused NG-Firewall – Who Cares? Part 2
This is Part 2 of our blog series about NG-Firewalls. See Part 1 here. Part 2: Enter Threat-Focused NG-Firewall What does a Threat-focused NG-Firewall do differently? Just about everything. Let’s compare the most popular NGFW systems on the market (typical NGFW) with the Cisco Firepower NG-Firewall…
Threat-Focused NG-Firewall – Who Cares? Part 1
Part 1: Rude Awakening Let us begin with some context in the form of a story. I live in a very bad part of town and I am always worried that my car is going to get stolen or broken into. So, I just invested over a thousand bucks in this awesome vehicle alarm and security system. You know, one of tho…
DMZ Basics
Lately I made the change from deep technical consultant to a more high-level architect like kind of consultant. I now do my work on the turning point between business and technique. One of my first jobs is to make my customer ready for an audit to use the dutch official authentication method, which…
Security or Hybrid WAN’s? Do you need to choose?
Security is hot topic on everyone’s mind and for IT it is a constant challenge to stay ahead of the latest threats and vulnerabilities that their organizations face on a daily basis. Take a quick look at the news and it won’t take you long to find an article talking about the latest cyber atta…
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