Elianna Goldstein is a Cisco Intern who shared her story with us this summer before returning to school. We hope your semester is amazing, Elianna! For two summers in a row, I worked at small non-profits and volunteered, as I sou...
Next week the Open Networking User Group meets for its fall conference in New York City. I am looking forward to learning how the SDN landscape is evolving and what is top of mind for IT architects and business leaders. One hot to...
The nation of Iraq is frequently in the news, but up until now not because of its ultra-modern IP and optical network. This week we announced that Cisco is playing a key role to restore and rebuild the Iraqi National Backbone, a m...
"The only constant is change." It's an adage that goes back 2500 years to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. But never has it been as true as it is today. Technology adoption is growing exponentially, driving change at a dizzying p...
Submitted by Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, the Editor of Upskill U at Light Reading As service providers migrate traditional networks to virtualized networks, it's no longer enough to only secure the perimeter. Threats from within the ne...
In late August we began to detect malicious Microsoft Word documents that contained VisualBasic (VB) macro code and the code appeared to be triggering when the document was opened. However, the documents did not contain any of the...
Over the past few years, location-based services such as Google Maps, Yelp, or OpenTable have become pervasive in our lives. In fact, 70 percent of smart phone customers now use location-based services. But similar, location-based...
The way that Jaipur looks at it, every few centuries a city needs an upgrade. As one of the biggest tourist destinations in India, Jaipur wanted to transform itself into a more modern, digital city to handle the needs of the peop...
This post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin and Yves Younan Summary Ransomware has become increasingly prevalent in the industry, and in many cases, unless there is a publicly released decryptor available, there is often not an eas...
Data is growing at an astonishing rate. Trends like cloud, IoT and digitization are imposing higher demands on how data is managed, transported, backed up and restored. Increased business dependence on IT means downtime has more m...
LikeRenee Pattonwho isGearing up for EDUCAUSE 2016, I am equally thrilled to be co-presenting with BruceMaas and BobTurner from the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Our session, Effective Threat Detection: The Key to Constra...
Based on the cybersecurity news proliferating in the mainstream media today -from ransomware incidents to data breaches of massive proportions -it has become clear that organizations need to put security mechanisms in place to pro...