best practices
Driving a Successful Sustainability Agenda – A Deep Dive into a Holistic Approach
As sustainability becomes a business imperative among business leaders, a Cisco executive identifies 6 key technology maturity dimensions and looks at how taking a holistic approach to sustainability can give you a competitive advantage to your business and help meet sustainability goals at the same time!
Secure Your Hybrid Workforce Using These SOC Best Practices
Learn how your SOC can better support your hybrid workforce with practical advice from Cisco technical marketing and an expert from our award winning Talos Threat Intelligence group.
Five Tips on Working from Home from a 20-Year Work from Home Veteran
Many of us and our partners will be working from home for the foreseeable future. Here are my five best practices (and lessons learned) for making the most of your work situation.
The Fast Pace of Change
Rethinking Secure Technical Innovation to Enable Successful Business Outcomes Over the past 25 years I have been employed in the technology field, my non-technical friends often ask me, “How do...
Cognitive Bias in Incident Response
This blog is a co-authored by Jeff Bollinger & Gavin Reid Are You Too Confident in Your Incident Response? When Charles Darwin stated “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge,” civilization’s evolution from Industrial Age to Information Age was nearly a century away. Yet, when it comes to many aspects of IT, he nailed […]
Detection in Depth
Defense in depth is a well understood and widely implemented approach that can better secure your organization’s network. It works by placing multiple layers of defense throughout the network to create a series of overlapping and redundant defenses. If one layer fails, there will still be other defenses that remain intact. However, a lesser known […]
How to turn your customer crisis into a competitive differentiator
Cisco strives to deliver a great customer experience, every time. It’s a top priority at our company. But even with that focus, we still trip up from time to time....
Using best better practices with Cisco UCS Manager
I’ve been working with Cisco UCS since the very beginning. From the earliest days, whenever a customer ran into problems, I would often be asked to help figure out what was going wrong and to help fix it. Generally, this would involve a review of the system, and when we found less desirable configurations we […]
Cisco Active Advisor: Get the Most From Your Enterprise Network
When I was little, my father kept our family car in tip-top shape. He overhauled brakes, rebuilt engines, tuned carburetors, and swapped out suspensions. He could do just about anything, and he knew every component, inside and out. From an early age, I enjoyed “helping” my father whenever there was a chance. I handed him […]