No one wants to be locked into a particular platform or cloud. What is more, enterprises value the freedom of deploying and managing applications in environments that are determined because of business requirements, rather than artificial constraints. After all, applications remain the means by which business value is realized. As a result, management and orchestration ...

If malfunctioning machines and user error aren’t enough to contend with in the battle to preserve productivity, Ransomware is the cyberattack of the moment, and it has the potential to send your productivity into freefall. To defend against ransomware attacks, having a robust architecture designed with security in mind is only the beginning. To recover ...

The need for threat-focused next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) that can effectively mitigate risks that traditional unified threat management (UTM) and point solutions cannot is highlighted by numerous studies, including one from Cisco that reported that every organization should assume it has been hacked. Cisco threat researchers found malicious traffic was visible on 100 percent of the ...

The need for threat-focused next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) that can effectively mitigate risks that traditional unified threat management (UTM) and point solutions cannot, is highlighted by numerous studies, including one from Cisco that reported that every organization should assume it has been hacked. Cisco threat researchers found malicious traffic was visible on 100 percent of the ...

The digitisation of manufacturing is driving innovation and efficiency at a rate not seen since automation was introduced in the 1960s. Manufacturers are connecting factory systems with enterprise networks to create a more agile, efficient and flexible business. But there is a down side. Digital transformation is proliferating vulnerabilities at the same time as cyber-attackers ...

As innovations such as cloud computing, virtualization, and mobility continue to change the way technology services are provisioned and delivered, enterprises need to be able to provide an equally flexible mechanism of protecting important assets from attacks. Cisco provides one of the industry’s most comprehensive advanced threat protection portfolios of products and solutions. Download now ...

Data center administrators face a significant challenge: They need to secure the data center without compromising the performance and functionality that new data center environments enable. Many are looking to secure the data center using solutions designed for the Internet edge, but these solutions are not enough. The Cisco Online Privacy Statement and this summary ...

IT organizations around the world are consolidating and rebuilding data centers, moving infrastructure into the cloud, and looking at flexible and programmable data center architectures (like SDN for data center networks) in an effort to get the scale and agility they need to operate their businesses and manage cost. So what do end-users—companies in the ...

How Will Security Advance in the Data Center in 2016? Read on to get the answers to three key questions posed in this survey: What are the most common data center security incidents, and what impact are they having on organizations? How have threats to data centers evolved and multiplied over the past year? What ...

IT should not impede your business growth, but rather should accelerate it. But to get to a place where IT efforts are focused on achieving results instead of managing complexity, the network needs to get much simpler. Cisco can help you get there, using capabilities embedded in the network you already have in place. Download ...