#Security

November 6, 2017

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Prevention or Cure? Focusing your Cybersecurity Efforts and Investments

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so the saying goes. When it comes to protecting your organization against the imminent threat of a cyber attack, it’s essential to factor in both. Here’s why. Today’s hackers are motivated and more organized than ever. This past year has shown how vul…

October 26, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Securing the Video Streaming Business

It is that time of year again; leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and every week teams from the National Football League line up to participate in the ‘ultimate team sport’, American football.  As a lifelong fan, I watch every Patriots game and I am certainly not alone. It is that diehard devotio…

October 18, 2017

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Accelerating Productivity and Profitability with the Power of Services

What if you could simultaneously reduce your network downtime by 74 percent and increase IT efficiency by 30 percent? What would you do with your newfound time? Maybe you would divert recovered costs toward revenue-generating activities. Perhaps you would redirect resources to take meaningful steps…

October 13, 2017

EDUCATION

An IT Security Top 5 from the University of Oklahoma

The University of Oklahoma (OU) is using October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (CSAM), to emphasize the creative and common-sense actions they are taking to improve cybersecurity and educate users across campus about the importance of being smart online. Higher education organizations fac…

October 3, 2017

EDUCATION

Access: A Tale of Three Academics

It’s 2am. Four college students are huddled around a laptop and a whiteboard. Unfolded laundry is littered across the bed. A crumpled bag of chips lies face down on the desk, spilling salt across the scattered pages of a forgotten problem set. Speakers are humming lowly with the rhythms of the top 4…

September 27, 2017

SECURITY

When it Comes to Network Security, Your Best Defense is Security Everywhere!

New troubling cyberattacks are in the news almost daily. No one is immune. Have you checked your credit score lately? I just finished freezing mine. A national credit bureau breach is the latest wide-ranging theft of data to hit the news. You are probably wondering: “Is my network secure and what wo…

September 6, 2017

SECURITY

Culture of Security Nets Industry Recognition

One of the best aspects of my job is when I get to recognize my team for their passion, dedication and excellence – characteristics that I see and appreciate in them every day. It is always exciting and humbling when they are recognized across the industry for their outstanding work. Today, I’m extr…

September 1, 2017

DATA CENTER

What’s new with ACI Micro Segmentation

I can’t believe it has been a year since I wrote the blog series (part-I, part-II, part-III and part-IV – last one with help from Vincent Esposito) to share some ideas about how to bring theory to practice when it comes to ACI and Micro Segmentation. In the last 12 months we have added quite a…

August 29, 2017

FINANCIAL SERVICES

How to Prevent the Bank Robbery No One Can See

“This is a stickup! Give me all your bitcoins!” Those words may not seem as terrifying as the shouts and gunshots of infamous bank robbers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid sounded to bankers in the early 1900s. But they would quickly create a crippling panic if you saw them flash across your scre…