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We Can’t Ignore the Digital Skills Shortage: Six Public Policies to Address This 21st-Century Crisis
3 min read
Businesses, governments, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations are entering a new era of connectivity and technology. Whether to boost productivity, improve public services, or help make cities more sustainable, this rapid adoption of technology is creating endless benefits. However, one challenge is threatening to stall the digital transformation of the future: the growing digital skills […]
Trust, Transparency and Transatlantic Data Flows
3 min read
The new EU-US Data Protection Framework is intended to create an effective mechanism for transatlantic data flows and to bring renewed legal certainty. This blog looks at approaches to privacy, trust and the roles of government and industry: what are consumers thinking?
Jeff Campbell to Serve as Cisco’s Chief Government Strategy Officer
2 min read
Today, I am excited to announce that Senior Vice President Jeff Campbell has been promoted to Chief Government Strategy Officer of Cisco. Jeff succeeds Michael Timmeny, who previously held the role and opened Cisco’s Washington, D.C. office in 1998. Michael will now serve as an Executive Advisor for Cisco. As Chief Government Strategy Officer, Jeff […]
An Action Plan to Boost Open Source Security
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Last week, Cisco’s Head of Open Source, Stephen Augustus, and I joined nearly 100 executives from 37 companies and leaders from the White House and across the U.S. federal government in Washington DC at the Open Source Software Security Summit II to finalize an action plan to boost the security of open source software (“OSS”). […]
Welcoming new European law to ward off cyberattacks on critical infrastructure
4 min read
European policymakers reached a deal on a new law regulating cybersecurity for critical infrastructure entities. Cisco welcomes this agreement and the continued attention that the European Union is dedicating to secure critical infrastructure.
Cisco Welcomes Bill Davenport as Senior Director, Government Affairs
1 min read
Cisco is proud to announce that Bill Davenport will serve as a Senior Director of Government Affairs in our Washington, DC office.
Meeting Europe’s 2030 Digital Decade Targets
3 min read
Cisco’s vision for powering the internet of the future looks to close the digital divide. We explore the results of Cisco's latest Broadband Index and why Europe’s 2030 Digital Decade targets are so important.
Our vision for AI policies that bolster beneficial uses and uphold human rights
4 min read
Taking stock of the global policy landscape and initiatives to regulate AI and discussing how Cisco upholds human rights and principles in AI offerings.
Cisco Applauds Senate Passage of the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022
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Cisco applauds and continues to emphasize the importance of the govenment sharing actionable cyber threat information with the private sector as quickly, and at the lowest level of classification, as possible.