security
How Retailers Can Chart a Path to Digital Value
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Digital disruption is here. According to a 2015 survey from the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation (DBT Center), a joint initiative of Cisco and the Institute of Management Development (IMD), 47 percent of retail executives say digital disruption increases the risk of going out of business. In addition, the survey revealed that four of […]
Security Enables Next Generation Business Outcomes
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The Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona is host to almost 100,000 attendees. That’s a lot of people! Since the mobile industry has such a significant impact on the world and the worldwide economy, no wonder there is so much interest. This is an industry that employed nearly 13 million men and women in […]
Cisco and Splunk Drive Operational Intelligence at Enterprise Scale
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Guest Blog from Friea Berg, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk As a member of the Splunk Global Strategic Alliances organization, Friea Berg is responsible for Splunk’s overall Cisco partnership. She leads a cross-functional team driving core technology alignment, solution development, GTM initiatives, and sales strategies across Cisco Data Center, Security, ACI, Collaboration and IoE teams. Friea has more than 15 years […]
AFCEA West 2016: Digitization & Security for the U.S. Navy
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I’m writing to you from AFCEA WEST 2016, one of the biggest naval conferences on the West Coast. Here in San Diego, I’m surrounded by both industry experts and military leaders who are discussing how to use technology to advance the Navy’s mission to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, […]
Moving to the DevOps Model with Cisco and Ansible
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Written by Shane Corban and Mike Cohen Today, SDN is being embraced by many companies to increase operational speed and efficiency of network management, and Cisco ACI is rapidly becoming the SDN solution of choice. A key part of Cisco’s SDN work is collaborations and integration with a diverse group of industry leaders and innovators. […]
Cisco Live Berlin: Managing the Hyper Adoption of Cloud
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As I shared in my last blog, cloud use is rampant, pervasive, exploding! As a short recap, large organization are now using an average of 1,220 cloud services (most unknown to IT departments). The tremendous spike in cloud service usage presents challenges for IT including higher business risks, costs, and a shortage of IT resources […]
Linux Kernel Zero-Day Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2016-0728
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On January 20, 2016, a new Linux Kernel zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-0728) was disclosed by Perception Point. The vulnerability has the potential to allow attackers to gain root on affected devices by running a malicious Android or Linux application. Our investigation is ongoing; however, at this time we have not identified any Cisco products as exploitable. […]
#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 3. 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report
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#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing the 2016 Cisco Annual Security Report with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Tim Gurganus. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTunes Cisco Guest Tim Gurganus (@hotzoner), Security Incident Manager at […]
The Wizard of nOZ (Part 1)
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I am going to show you how to discover one of the best kept secrets within Cisco’s portfolio. A service that when our customers become aware of it, it becomes a must-have for their environments! There is no man behind the curtain, pulling strings, making various noises and effects like the famous movie inferred by […]
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