network segmentation

March 6, 2020

SECURITY

Cisco Identity Services Engine wins…again!

For the fourth time in the last five years, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) was recognized as the top solution in the Trust Awards category for Best NAC Solution at the 2020 SC Awards. The announcement was made on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 during the 24th annual SC Awards gala in San Francisco…

April 25, 2019

DATA CENTER

How to Find Relief for Your Network Infrastructure in the Age of Apps

If you’re like most IT people, never does a day go by that you’re not working on multiple tasks at once: ensuring on prem data centers and public cloud networks are running smoothly; monitoring the consistency of network security policies; and making sure all of it meets compliance demands. And that…

March 13, 2019

SECURITY

Hello World! Contextual Identity Within the Spacetime Continuum

Hello world! I think that’s the obligatory first line for any technology blog, right? But, how do you know I am here? How do you know I exist? I have a blog profile, I have a picture, I have a blog tagged to my name. All of these are contextual clues that I exist in reality, without actually being p…

October 25, 2017

SECURITY

Fireproofing your network with software-defined segmentation

We often hear of the many challenges of the industrial revolution, but one of the scourges of this time period that often goes unmentioned was mass fires. To the people of the time, great fires threatened the very viability of industrialization. The number of fires bearing the moniker ‘great’ helps…

June 29, 2016

SECURITY

Cisco TrustSec, the “Swiss Army Knife” in your network security toolbox

A new approach to segmentation that simply delivers more Network segmentation has been around for quite a while as a way to isolate environments and critical systems to secure data and IT assets. Recent breaches have highlighted the value of segmentation in reducing the attack surface and preventing…

May 11, 2016

GOVERNMENT

Cybersecurity for Defense: Network Segmentation

Classifying and compartmentalizing information has been around within the Department of Defense before it was even called the Department of Defense. However, as DOD information that was once secured in vaults and safes has become digital data, many new regulations have been introduced that mandate h…

February 16, 2016

SECURITY

Take a Strategic Approach to Security Segmentation

[This post was written by Pavan Reddy, Customer Solutions Director, Cisco Security Services] You’ve read the stats: by the end of the decade, the Internet of Everything will result in 50 billion networked connections of people, process data and things. You don’t need to look far to see it come to li…

February 14, 2014

SECURITY

Safety first, business second, security none?

Based on 25 years of professional experience in various businesses around the globe, I can say that many industry verticals have a pretty good state of safety culture as it relates to the health and safety of their employees.  This is especially true for companies involved in high-risk businesses su…