india

Looking back on the past two decades, I can clearly divide my professional experience into two phases: 10 years pre-Cisco and, the decade I’m currently in, all things Cisco. Before Cisco, I worked at five different companies, with my longest stretch being three years spent at Oracle. My experiences…

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and Andrew Williams. Summary Since our initial post on malicious mobile device management (MDM) platforms, we have gathered more information about this actor that we believe shows it is part of a broader campaign targeting multiple pla…

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and Andrew Williams. Summary Cisco Talos has identified a highly targeted campaign against 13 iPhones which appears to be focused on India. The attacker deployed an open-source mobile device management (MDM) system to control enrolled…

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Summary Today, Cisco Talos is uncovering a new piece of malware, which has remained under the radar for the past two years while it continues to be developed. Several weeks ago, we identified the use of the latest version of this RAT…

Digitizing a country is not an easy task. However, Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, wants to make this real for his country to bridge the digital divide and drive growth in the country. The Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a unique initiative in its second year.  Its goal is to ignite the c…

If my niece were to ask me for career advice, I would tell her that Happiness is within. Don’t look for happiness from outside influences. Learn from the challenges you face, and make full use of the opportunities you’re given. One of the opportunities I was recently presented  was to participate in…

Later this month, I will be traveling to India to meet with customers and connect with our Cisco Service Provider engineering teams. I always look forward to my trips to India. Each time I return, I find myself in awe of the pace of technology adoption in India, in general, and in particular, the ra…

This post was guest-written by Dipak Basu, CEO of the Anudip Foundation, a social entrepreneur who has spent over 30 years employing technology in humanitarian missions worldwide. Anudip Foundation is a nonprofit company working for the economic empowerment of at-risk youth. We believe the key to hu…

Seven years ago, many people (including my mother-in-law) thought I had made a career-ending decision to accept a high-risk assignment and relocate to India. My mission:  build from the ground up Cisco’s second headquarters, a Globalization Centre East in Bangalore focused on innovation, talent and…