Initiatives to enable progress: Taking action during a global pandemic

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Cisco employees continue to seek ways to make an impact, especially during this difficult time. We made this easier by doubling the number of paid days off available for employees to volunteer from five to 10 in 2020. In addition, we increased the annual match for employee giving...

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2021 Security Outcomes Study: Timely Incident Response as a Business Enabler

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Cybersecurity has a set of starting signals as well, but they differ in one aspect. In the event of a cybersecurity event, the team responsible for incident response is not the initial actor. Incident response is based on the same readiness as a world-class performer; however, incident responders...

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Improving Application Experience with Full-Stack Observability

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In the not-too-distant past, everything in the application and networking stack was under IT’s control. Workloads lived securely in the on-premise data center—people sat in their campus offices connected to the secure wireless network, and an MPLS service with an SLA connected branch offices to the data center.Today,...

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How Agility Has Become The Ultimate Superpower For IT

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Many CIOs and IT professionals are feeling between a rock and hard place right now, battling the disruption caused by the global pandemic while facing immense pressure to accelerate their digital journeys.Yet out of the crucible of these opposing forces, remarkable opportunities have emerged, along with new learnings...

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New Cisco 500-450 Exam: UCCEIS Sample Questions | UCCEIS Exam Info

Cisco UCCEIS Exam Description:This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of installing and deploying Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Cisco Unified CCE) solutions. Cisco Unified CCE is part of the Cisco Unified Communications application suite, which delivers intelligent call routing, network-to-desktop computer telephony integration (CTI), and multichannel contact management...

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Threat Trends: DNS Security, Part 2

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Part 2: Industry trendsIn our Threat Trends blog series, we attempt to provide insight into the prevalent trends on the threat landscape. Our goal in giving you the latest info on these trends is that you’ll be better prepared to allocate security resources to where they’re needed most.Knowing...

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Five ways we’re improving telework with SD-WAN and telemetry

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Bad dream for an IT engineer? Try this: an executive working from home gets booted off an all-hands video meeting. Then it happens again. And again.That happened to me a couple of months ago. Fortunately, when I received the call, I could see immediately that the problem lay...

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Introducing the Cisco DNA Traffic Telemetry Appliance

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Add-ons extend the latest technology to legacy systems, like how my old TV turned smart overnight with an additional streaming player. It is even better when the supplements work in cohesion with the primary products to deliver a seamless experience. Imagine if you could utilize the same remote...

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Why Cisco Joined the Confidential Computing Consortium

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Building a Networked Mesh of Hacker-Resistant SoftwareThe world’s digital devices are based on layered software stacks.  Each of these layers has its own security vulnerabilities. A successful attack made into one of the layers of software is typically leveraged to exploit another layer.Some digital devices embed internal protections...

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Improving DNS Security While Preserving Resiliency

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The IETF’s Discovery of Designated ResolversThe Domain Name System (DNS) has played a key role in the Internet’s success. It was designed to be scalable and resilient to handle enormous growth. The DNS has also proven to be a strong control point used to identify and remediate threats...

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