It can be tough for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). They need to compete with the deep pockets of bigger organizations who can provide top-notch wireless access to customers, vendors and employees alike. But finding cutting-edge wireless network solutions that won’t break the bank, are easy-to-deploy and don’t take up a lot of space can seem impossible.
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Monday 26 February 2018
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation: The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Closed-Loop Automation Solution
Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers. We are very excited about creating the industry’s most comprehensive closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution that embraces multi-vendor networks. We are more excited about the transformations we are seeing inside of our Service Provider customers and how this can help them accelerate their journey to a fully self-healing infrastructure.
Sunday 25 February 2018
Serverless & Developing Applications Using Multiple Cloud Providers
I’ve been into serverless technologies for a few years now. The thought of not having to care about what platform my code is executing on, or having to manage and operate it, resonated with my developer side that just wants to code. I also saw it as a possible catalyst for change in how we are developing applications using cloud provider services, one that allows services from multiple clouds to be pieced together to form a whole application…but more on that further down this blog!
Friday 23 February 2018
Security Threats – The New Reality for Utilities
Security experts agree: Cyberattacks are the new reality for utility companies.
A major power outage hits the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas. For nearly two hours, participants were reminded that without electricity, the digital economy would not survive very well. In 2016, 3.85 trillion kilowatthours (kWh) [EIA] was consumed in the U.S., enabling consumers, transportations, commercial and industrials business to perform their daily activities. No doubt that over the world, national and regional power grids are critical infrastructures requiring adequate protections such as the North-American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) plan.
A major power outage hits the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas. For nearly two hours, participants were reminded that without electricity, the digital economy would not survive very well. In 2016, 3.85 trillion kilowatthours (kWh) [EIA] was consumed in the U.S., enabling consumers, transportations, commercial and industrials business to perform their daily activities. No doubt that over the world, national and regional power grids are critical infrastructures requiring adequate protections such as the North-American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) plan.
Wednesday 21 February 2018
How to Overcome Privacy Program Stumbling Blocks
Our Security Services team works with customers to navigate these waters.
who is a lead consultant in our Privacy and Data Protection Services practice. According to Steve, there are a few key areas where organizations can stumble:
◈ New dimensions of data access management
◈ Transparency
◈ Traceability and assurance
who is a lead consultant in our Privacy and Data Protection Services practice. According to Steve, there are a few key areas where organizations can stumble:
◈ New dimensions of data access management
◈ Transparency
◈ Traceability and assurance
Monday 19 February 2018
Manufacturing mobility: Data, voice, video, and location
Manufacturers use wireless to increase margins, reduce cycle times, enable lean, and improve equipment productivity. While pervasive wireless connects sensors, tools, robots, AGVs, and RFID devices, it also enables mobility. Mobility supports far more than just cell phones, tablets, and laptops.
Very simply put, mobility drives data, voice, video and location applications.
Very simply put, mobility drives data, voice, video and location applications.
Friday 16 February 2018
DevSecOps: Security at the Speed of Business
We will describe another key aspect of DevSecOps – developing security guardrails with a hands-on approach via Agile hackathons.
DevSecOps is about bridging DevOps workflows with Information Security (Infosec) Operations by embedding security as code during development, validation during testing and leveraging automation to run continuous operations. From many years in IT, we know that it’s a good idea to first prove ideas manually before we automate. Agile security hackathon is how we bring in participants from relevant disciplines within Information Security and application teams to first go through a set of implementation steps to configure the most important security requirements – the guardrails. With the winter Olympics in progress, this is akin to the guardrails that help a gravity powered Bobsled go faster along iced tracks in a safe manner.
DevSecOps is about bridging DevOps workflows with Information Security (Infosec) Operations by embedding security as code during development, validation during testing and leveraging automation to run continuous operations. From many years in IT, we know that it’s a good idea to first prove ideas manually before we automate. Agile security hackathon is how we bring in participants from relevant disciplines within Information Security and application teams to first go through a set of implementation steps to configure the most important security requirements – the guardrails. With the winter Olympics in progress, this is akin to the guardrails that help a gravity powered Bobsled go faster along iced tracks in a safe manner.
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Continuous Integration and Deployment for the Network
The requisite for Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline being used in the network is growing. Continuous Integration and deployment helps counteract inaccuracies in daily network deployments and changes, hence is critically required. The upshot for change release and automated network testing is that changes are simplified, done more quickly and more streamlined, with CI/CD.
Monday 12 February 2018
Five things that are bigger than the Internet: Findings from this year’s Global Cloud Index
The scale of the Internet is awe-inspiring. By 2021, there will be 4.6 billion people and 27 billion devices connected to the Internet, and Internet traffic will reach 2.8 trillion Gigabytes (or 2.8 Zettabytes) per year.
Even with multiple Zettabytes crossing the network each year, there are some things that dwarf even the Internet. We started the Global Cloud Index (GCI) seven years ago in order to capture the scale of data more generally, as it relates to the advent of the cloud. In our most recent report, there are five categories of data that meet or exceed Internet traffic volume by 2021.
Even with multiple Zettabytes crossing the network each year, there are some things that dwarf even the Internet. We started the Global Cloud Index (GCI) seven years ago in order to capture the scale of data more generally, as it relates to the advent of the cloud. In our most recent report, there are five categories of data that meet or exceed Internet traffic volume by 2021.
Friday 9 February 2018
Cisco AMP for Endpoints
Cisco Email Security
Cisco Firepower Device Manager
Cisco Stealthwatch
Cisco Umbrella
Cisco Web Security
effective security
Better design for simpler, more effective security
Few will contest the notion that security is complex.
Evolving threats. Clever, motivated attackers. And all too often, vendor-inflicted complexity of managing security from the mismatched consoles from dozens of vendors.
In this case, not only must users jump between consoles but the actions that become familiar in one console are not at all helpful or relevant in another. Each new console amounts to a new security management process – adding to greater complexity.
Evolving threats. Clever, motivated attackers. And all too often, vendor-inflicted complexity of managing security from the mismatched consoles from dozens of vendors.
In this case, not only must users jump between consoles but the actions that become familiar in one console are not at all helpful or relevant in another. Each new console amounts to a new security management process – adding to greater complexity.
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Secure by Design: Enhanced Interfaces Improve Email Security and Malware Analysis
In the infosec world, it’s well established that time is a precious commodity. Time to detection and time to resolution are critical concepts that can mean the difference between a minor incident and making the news. In order to be effective, security teams need to be able to quickly access data, gather insights and take the necessary actions to keep their organizations safe. To that end, we’re committed to simplifying our user interfaces and making it easier to manage security effectively across an enterprise. Cisco Email Security and Cisco Threat Grid are two prime examples.
Sunday 4 February 2018
Cisco Container Platform – Kubernetes for the Enterprise
Developed by Google to shepherd their in-house container clusters, Kubernetes has been vying for the attention and adoption of cloud architects. For the past several years, Docker Swarm, Mesos and Kubernetes have engaged in the duel to bring orchestration nirvana to containerized applications. While there are other participants in the fray and while Mesos has had a longer showing, Kubernetes seems to be capturing the pole position according to this research. This assertion is reinforced by the recent addition of support for Kubernetes to Apache Mesos, to Pivotal Container Service and to Cloud Foundry. The most recent admission of market realities is Docker’s seamless integration of Kubernetes into their Enterprise Edition offering. Whichever container orchestrator eventually arises as the de facto standard, it is clear that enterprises are looking for more and more infrastructure abstraction so they can laser focus on core business objectives.
Friday 2 February 2018
Network Visibility for Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions bring major challenges to nearly every aspect of a business, but integrating two different networks while maintaining enterprise security is perhaps one of the most demanding trials an organization can undergo.
Every organization has their own security policies, and applying new ones to hundreds or even thousands of new machines and users can be a logistical nightmare. On top of that, increasing the size of a network also increases its threat surface, potentially giving attackers new avenues to gain access and compromise sensitive data.
Every organization has their own security policies, and applying new ones to hundreds or even thousands of new machines and users can be a logistical nightmare. On top of that, increasing the size of a network also increases its threat surface, potentially giving attackers new avenues to gain access and compromise sensitive data.
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