network as an enforcer

January 24, 2017

SECURITY

pxGrid Turns 50 in Just Two Years!

3 min read

Since its introduction in 2015, pxGrid has provided you an open, automated, and effective way for your disparate security technologies to work together.  In just two years we’ve added 50 separate products that you can integrate to see and stop threats faster, and demonstrate compliance. And we’re bringing on board a mix of new technology […]

December 19, 2016

SECURITY

To be Effective, Security Needs to Be a Force Multiplier

4 min read

Effective security is simple, open, and automated.  We’ve already talked about simple and open. Now let’s talk about automated. Security admins can relate to this scenario. You just learned of an infected system in your environment of thousands of devices. How many others are affected? That’s hard to figure out even in elite operations. What […]

December 2, 2015

NETWORKING

Celebrate the Holiday Season with Better Security Defense

2 min read

Holidays are here. It is time to take a pause from work for travels and family celebrations. But hackers are not taking a rest. Just recently, a major hotel chain reported that it suffered a security breach related to customer credit and debit card payments. The hospitality industry is certainly not the only victim of data […]

June 8, 2015

NETWORKING

The Network as a Security Sensor and Enforcer

3 min read

The Digital Economy and the Internet of Everything means everything is now connected. Digitization is fundamentally transforming how we conduct business. It creates new opportunities to develop services...

June 8, 2015

SECURITY

Leveraging the Network as a Security Sensor and Policy Enforcer

3 min read

The topic of cybersecurity has become so ubiquitous that it’s almost a daily occurrence to read or hear about security breaches in the news. Cisco understands this paradigm shift within the nature of computing, that the Digital Economy and the Internet of Everything now requires what we are calling Security Everywhere. Security has to span […]