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Is Your Network Ready for Hybrid Learning?
Date: September 24, 2020 Author: Victoria Ryan This year, students are learning online and through hybrid models in unparalleled numbers. The digital divide continues to grow wider and expose inequalities in our education system. Now more than ever, students,...
New Webex Meetings Enhancements
Date: September 23, 2020 Author: Selim Baygin Enhancements for a Video-First Experience It looks like working and learning from home are here to stay. Even when it’s safe to return to the office and school, we’re seeing some big benefits of hybrid work/school...
Faster, secure connections to cloud workloads
Date: September 9, 2020 Author: Imran Bashir As more and more enterprises move their business-critical workloads and applications to the Cloud, top of mind for many is to get the most secure and fast connection to the internet with minimal latency. The goal is moving...
Teaching in the COVID-19 Era
Date: Jessica Highsmith Author: September 3, 2020 How do you keep teaching when being in your classroom isn’t an option? When COVID-19 emerged in late Winter 2020, organizations, governments and schools were forced to work from home nearly overnight. In the blink of...
The Need for Dynamic Health Capacity
Date: September 9, 2020 Author: Vishaal Kishore Never before in living memory have our health systems been so clearly and obviously challenged. They have been at the heart of the storm that is the present pandemic – simultaneously core to our response to COVID-19, and...
Say Hello to Box for Webex!
Author: Jono Luk Date: September 23, 2020 Box & Webex: Providing Better-Together Experiences By now I hope you’ve had a chance to see Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO having a fireside chat with Aaron Levie, Box CEO, at BoxWorks Digital. Chuck and Aaron discussed a...
Cisco SD-WAN Enhances Microsoft 365 Optimization
Author: Ian McLaughlin Date: September 23, 2020 Cisco SD-WAN’s Cloud OnRamp for SaaS has already made great strides in optimizing users’ SaaS experience with features like direct internet access and automatic optimal path selection. These features enable admins to...
Education Is Cisco’s Past, Present and Future
Author: Brandon Casement Date: September 15, 2020 Building the Future of Education with Cisco Capital and Cisco Refresh With over 1.2 billion children out of the classroom across 186 countries worldwide according to the World Economic Forum, the COVID-19 pandemic...
Keeping critical care equipment within reach
Author: Jessica Highsmith Date: September 3, 2020 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust oversees several hospitals in West Yorkshire, England. Back in early Winter 2020, it was preparing to fight COVID-19. Like the rest of the world, it had little idea what...
Why Monitoring for Exposed Credentials is Important
Author: ASi Networks Date: 06/26/2020 Our lives have become increasingly virtual as we fulfill of all our financial, legal, shopping and entertainment needs online. News of malware, phishing and data breaches flood headlines almost every day. However, most people...
The new Cisco Validated Design for Google Cloud’s Anthos now available!
Author: Aniket Patankar Date: May 26, 2020 Over past three years, Cisco and Google have been working on delivering product integrations across our portfolios. One of the most exciting areas of the co-innovation is around hybrid cloud and application modernization....
Meet the nonprofits helping first responders
Date: May 26, 2020 Author: Erin Connor When an emergency happens, first responders are individuals with specialized training who are among the first to arrive and provide assistance. Their response has been no different for the global pandemic. Cisco has always...
The Dawn of the Digital Learner
Date: May 26, 2020 Author: Neal Tilley This week, join us in #EducationNow with this first blog in a three-part miniseries on the transition to hybrid learning. With many educational organizations shifting their entire schedules to distance learning tools or full...
Life lessons: Public charter school finds new ways to connect with at-risk youth
Date: May 21, 2020 Author: Andy Scholl Life Learning Academy (LLA) is a proverbial lifeboat for the Bay Area’s most vulnerable teens. Most of its students have experienced trauma, poverty, and housing insecurity. And all of them have been unsuccessful in traditional...
Cisco and AWS Strategic Partnership: Working to Secure Your Acceleration to the Cloud
Author: Lars Thorsen Date: May 19, 2020 As many know, AWS deploys a shared responsibility security model, which starts with AWS taking responsibility for the security of the underlying cloud infrastructure— compute, storage, database, and networking—within its various...
Leveraging The Power of Proximity
Author: Alex Allen Date: May 19, 2020 When I started in my role as the global lead for Customer Experience (CX) Inclusion & Collaboration, I was tasked with driving our organization to a more diverse, inclusive and conscious culture. I was lucky to be working for...
Providing Digital Security in a Changing World
Author: Jennifer Boynton Date: 04/06/2020 The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. Cisco is the industry leader in creating safe and secure connections and applications for processing data. And in a world with more data, more users, and more services than...
How to Strengthen Your Security in 2020
Author: Angela Cannon Date: 04/06/2020 As part of the recent RSA Conference, we all got to see – either in-person or virtually – the latest and greatest technology coming out of the security industry. While events like this can certainly be helpful in guiding future...
Webex Teams and Jabber Earn Top Rated 2020 Awards in Collaboration
Date: April 22, 2020 Author: Raisa Trifanov Cisco Collaboration Wins More TrustRadius Top Rated 2020 Awards You may remember our last TrustRadius Top Rated 2020 blog in March, announcing a few great distinctions from TrustRadius for Webex Meetings, Jabber,...
Cisco wants its equipment back
Date: April 22, 2020 Author: Andrew Sage We’re celebrating Earth Day with Product Takeback and Reuse. “The Blue Marble” is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972 by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about...
Vulnerability Spotlight: Zoom Communications User Enumeration
Date: April 21, 2020 Author: Talos Group Video conferencing and calling software has spiked in popularity as individuals across the globe are forced to stay home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are a plethora of players in this space, with one or two getting...
“Working from Home? Ten instructional videos to keep your workplace safe.”
The 10 hand selected NINJIO AWARE episodes below will be available through the end of April to those of us quarantined, locked up, and going crazy at home. We hope to educate you in an entertaining and engaging way on scams and cyber-threats you may face while working...
IT preparedness for COVID-19
Date: March 16, 2020 Author: Todd Nightingale At Cisco, we have asked thousands of our employees around the world to work from home. Most of them came to the office every day. Other companies have also taken this step, and many more will do so soon. We are all...
Cisco Announces “Work from Home” Webex Contact Center
Date: March 13, 2020 Author: Omar Tawakol With the widespread impact of COVID-19, it’s important to take care of ourselves, our families, our employees, and our customers. Around the world, our business and personal lives have been impacted. Many companies are asking...