machine learning

March 11, 2020

SECURITY

Are You Going About the Talent Shortage Wrong? It’s Time to Stop MacGyvering

We all know the stats. The security workforce shortage is impacting two-thirds of organizations, while the gap — currently at 4 million — continues to grow. Security teams are short-staffed, to the point where a 25% say the inability to keep up with the workload is a root cause of security incidents…

March 11, 2020

NETWORKING

5 Challenges for the Future of Wireless Networking

One of the most satisfying aspects of working at Cisco is tackling a thorny problem of engineering or computational science, and seeing your work reflected in a global standard or a shipping product within a few years. In wireless networking in particular, we have teams on the leading edge of resear…

February 26, 2020

SECURITY

A Platform Approach + Precise Analytics = Better Equation

There are so many companies each year at the RSA Conference, it would be useful to have some analytics to help guide your time there; which of the 700 plus vendors should you try and spend time with to solve your current problems? Similarly, customers are trying to keep up with the growing list of t…

February 19, 2020

LIFE AT CISCO

Exploring the Unknown: My Machine Learning Internship at Cisco   

This post was authored by Cisco Sales Intern Samy Doloris. As my studies in Computer Science and Engineering ended, there was one thing left to achieve – my master thesis. Most students at my university look up thesis topics with their professors. But I chose an alternative direction and found mysel…

November 18, 2019

SECURITY

The Importance of the Network in Detecting Incidents in Critical Infrastructure

As we saw in my last blog, the network plays a key role in defending critical infrastructure and IoT. The devices that we are connecting drive our business, enabling us to make smarter decisions and gain greater efficiency through digitization. But how do we ensure those connected devices are acting…

September 17, 2019

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

11 Rules of Innovation from Cisco CX’s Chief Architect

  “Even when we’re about three years old working with Lego blocks, we want to do something different, we want to build something unique with our own hands.” It’s clear that from a young age Cisco Customer Experience’s Chief Architect, Dave Malik, had a knack for innovation, the process of…

September 6, 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

AI and machine learning are here—is your workforce ready?

Retail banks are taking artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies and running with them. Armed with these tools, they’re adding speed and ease to banking and completely transforming the customer experience. Algorithms are churning out faster, more accurate credit decisions, speeding…

AI, the scientist

Scientific discovery is one of the engines of human and societal progress. Scientists spend years and years learning, devising hypotheses, carrying out conclusions, and publishing results, in pursuit of advancing the state of the art. What now if a machine were able to do science, only much faster?…

July 8, 2019

COLLABORATION

How AI is Changing the Game For Knowledge Workers

Have you ever wanted to ditch your mobile device, step back into the pre-internet everywhere era and pop on a Depeche Mode cassette? Yeah, me either. But for knowledge workers dealing with a constant stream of notifications and requests, stepping back a few decades might seem like a welcome reprieve…