security

October 6, 2017

SMALL BUSINESS

Cisco Small Business Update – Kaseya Integration, IT-SA and Spiceworld 2017

This week has been a busy one for us. Besides the MLB postseason starting as well as the regular season openers for the NHL, our team was all over the world covering events and shows. In Tennis, the world finals start later this month, the men will be in London, while the women will be in Singapore.…

October 4, 2017

NETWORKING

A Guide for Encrypted Traffic Analytics

By now, you’ve heard of Encrypted Traffic Analytics, Cisco’s latest innovation that allows organizations to leverage the network to find threats in encrypted traffic. Wondering why this is big news? Consider these statistics (Gartner and NSS Labs): … 63 million new devices are attaching to enterpris…

October 4, 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

#CiscoChat Podcast | Ask the IoT Whiz: Defending Your Operations in the Era of IoT

This Cybersecurity Month, I’m pleased to present you with the second installment of the Ask the IoT Whiz #CiscoChat podcast, Defending Your Operations in the Era of IoT. In this episode we take a look at the possibilities and potential threats of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. As connected dev…

October 2, 2017

SMALL BUSINESS

Cisco RV340 Dual WAN VPN Security Router: Tolly Report – Most Downloaded

I wanted to share some exciting news from our friends at the Tolly Group. Our Cisco RV340 Dual WAN VPN Security Router Tolly Report has been downloaded more than any other report in September! Here is the Tolly Report. Launched earlier this year, the RV340, along with the other models including the…

September 27, 2017

SECURITY

September 2017 Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Bundled Publication

Today, we released the last Cisco IOS & IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication of 2017. (As a reminder, Cisco discloses vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software on a predictable schedule—the fourth Wednesday of March and September in each calendar year).  Today’s edition o…

September 27, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Combating evolving threats with a global intelligence network

Hackers are always finding new ways to target service providers. But Cisco’s global intelligence network Talos can help protect them against the latest threats In 2015, a group of hackers known as SSHPsychos were causing trouble. They were abusing service provider resources to try and guess people’s…

September 26, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco Intersight – A Transformative Evolution

Cisco recently introduced Cisco Intersight, a revolutionary cloud-based systems management platform. Intersight was designed to deliver significant benefits while being easy to use and simple for Cisco UCS and HyperFlex customers to transition. Non-Disruptive Transformation Great innovations need to…

September 21, 2017

INNOVATION

Securing IoT: Job #1 for Everyone

If you’ve followed my blogs for long, you know I’m a big believer in the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is part of a digital transformation that will revolutionize virtually every industry—manufacturing, healthcare, mining, transportation, agriculture, and the list goes on. But to fulfill its promise…

September 20, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

If you want to get to grips with cyber security, look at the big picture

An integrated architecture can help service providers get the upper hand over the ever-increasing range of cyber security threats I’ve visited RSA, the world’s biggest internet security conference in San Francisco, for the past few years. And it’s really brought home to me how fast the world of cybe…