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October 17, 2019

GOVERNMENT

RFC 8573: Why Trust in Time Matters for Your Network

The world revolves around trust. From trusting your financial institution to keep your accounts secure, to trusting government keeps your private data out of the wrong hands, network security is critical. And for today’s networks, ensuring that time is a trusted resource within the network is…

October 7, 2016

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Navigating the Next Leap Second

For 27th time since 1972, a leap second is confirmed for 2016. It will take place on December 31 and to ensure our customers have everything they need to know about this upcoming event, Cisco has published an Information Page on Cisco.com. Similar to a leap year, the leap second helps bring our trac…

October 21, 2015

THREAT RESEARCH

Cisco Identifies Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd)

Cisco is committed to improving the overall security of the products and services our customers rely on. As part of this commitment, Cisco assesses the security of software components used in our products. Open source software plays a key role in many Cisco products and as a result, ensuring the sec…

September 10, 2014

NETWORKING

Revamping the MSE User Interface

As part of the WLC 8.0 release, we addressed customer comments and revamped the user interface (UI) for the MSE. We wanted to make it easier for customers using both MSE and PI to adjust to larger deployments. We also wanted to quicken the pace at which we could deliver features to the customers. To…

September 4, 2014

NETWORKING

Show Me the Retail Data

Success in retail often comes down to a counting game.  How many people pass by your store?  How many come inside?   How long do they stay?  And most importantly how many ultimately buy? Today, the retail counting game has gotten a lot easier because we can now count devices as proxies for people, s…