playbook

November 8, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

What is the role of NFV and SDN in Digital Transformation?

1 min read

Playbook to guide your customers through the transformation of their network and operations to meet the demands of becoming a digital service provider. Findings on what it takes to transform their operations, technology adoption, organization to meet the demands of SDN and NFV.

November 1, 2013

SECURITY

Using a “Playbook” Model to Organize Your Information Security Monitoring Strategy

7 min read

CSIRT, I have a project for you. We have a big network and we’re definitely getting hacked constantly. Your group needs to develop and implement security monitoring to get our malware and hacking problem under control.   If you’ve been a security engineer for more than a few years, no doubt you’ve received a directive […]

October 24, 2013

SECURITY

To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part II

10 min read

The Great Correlate Debate SIEMs have been pitched in the past as "correlation engines" and their special algorithms can take in volumes of logs and filter everything down to just...

October 3, 2013

SECURITY

Big Security—Mining Mountains of Log Data to Find Bad Stuff

4 min read

Your network, servers, and a horde of laptops have been hacked. You might suspect it, or you might think it’s not possible, but it’s happened already. What’s your next move? The dilemma of the “next move” is that you can only discover an attack either as it’s happening, or after it’s already happened. In most […]

August 21, 2013

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

The Role of Executives in Employee Engagement: Crossing Your T’s and Dotting Your I’s

3 min read

In our #ciscosmt Twitter chat yesterday, we talked about how to engage employees in social media. On a very high level, I presented the pillars of our program: identify, activate, recognize and measure. And previously, I blogged about a potential framework you can use for your own Social Ambassador program (that’s what we call our […]

July 25, 2013

PARTNER

The Impact of Cloud Consumption Models

1 min read

Details on a groundbreaking new study that explores the forces transforming IT organizations, and determines the skills our IT leaders and service providers will need to succeed.