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  • Cisco Changes Its DNA

    Cisco is well known as a network hardware company. But we often forget that they are also a software company with a network operating system, IOS. Cisco is now taking that software out of its embedded place in hardware and moving it into another devices.


  • Cisco: CEOs Need To Be More Accountable For IT Security

    If your company’s IT security rests solely on the IT manager, Cisco wants this to change. As part of its recommendations to the Federal Government for the 2015 Cyber Security Review, the networking vendor wants to see CEO level accountability for the “integrity, confidentiality and assured availability of data, systems and services” within businesses.


  • The Future For Audiences: Biofeedback

    During a session at Cisco Live a few hours ago, I was wired up with a device that measured, using electrical impendence, my reactions to various speakers. By monitoring the changes in the composition and volume of my perspiration they could tell which speakers were more engaging.


  • How Delayed Detonation Malware Works

    Having spent quite a bit of time at security events over the last few years, it’s not often I hear about a new form of malware or attack. But during a media briefing with Cisco’s VP for managed security services Tom Powledge, we learned about an emerging threat –- delayed detonation malware.