This overview presents the vision for Cisco® Digital Network Architecture (DNA). The architecture is built to facilitate fast and flexible network services that support digitalized business processes. DNA centers around a network infrastructure that is not only fully programmable and open to third–party innovation, but can also fully and seamlessly integrates the cloud as an ...

What if you could give time back to IT? Provide network access in minutes for any user or device to any application – without compromise? Software-Defined Access is the industry’s first intent-based networking solution for the Enterprise built on the principles of Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA). SD-Access provides automated end-to-end segmentation to separate user, ...

Miercom was engaged by Cisco Systems to independently configure, operate and then assess aspects of competitive campus-network infrastructures from Cisco Systems and from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The goal was to assemble the products of each vendor strictly according to their recommend designs, and using their respective software for campus-wide network management, control, configuration and ...

The rapid rise in encrypted traffic is changing the threat landscape. As more businesses become digital, a significant number of services and applications are using encryption as the primary method of securing information. More specifically, encrypted traffic has increased by more than 90 percent year over year, with more than 40 percent of websites encrypting ...

The promise of digital for your business is all about innovating faster while reducing risk, cost, and complexity. Your network forms the foundation of your transformation to a digital organization. We are transforming your network with new switching products and systems that enable time-saving automation, greater scale with virtualization, and valuable analytics that directly address ...

Cisco ONE Software helps you purchase the right software capabilities to address your organization’s business needs. It provides a valuable and flexible way to buy software for your data center, WAN and access domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco ONE Software helps make buying, managing and upgrading your network and infrastructure software ...

Intent-based networking is the difference between a network that needs continuous attention and one that simply understands what you need and makes it happen. It’s the difference between doing thousands of tasks manually and having an automated system that helps you focus on business goals. Cisco DNA is the open, software-driven platform that turns vision ...

2016 is the year of ransomware, says a recent report by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, an industry think tank. When it comes to battling ransomware, your best offense is a good defense. Is your organization prepared to ward off an attack? Don’t waste hours pondering a defense strategy. Use this checklist instead to ...

Ransomware is nefarious: it creates a digital hostage situation that costs businesses in not only a possible ransom, but lost revenue in time, personnel allocation, data, and innumerable other resources. Ransomware is commonly delivered through exploit kits, malvertising (infected ads on a website), phishing (fraudulent emails masquerading as trustworthy), or spam campaigns. The actual infection ...

2016 is the year of ransomware, says a recent report by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, an industry think tank. When it comes to battling ransomware, your best offense is a good defense. Is your organization prepared to ward off an attack? Don’t waste hours pondering a defense strategy. Use this checklist instead to ...