Cisco and Hitachi Vantara tackle hybrid cloud complexity
Cisco and Hitachi Vantara are expanding their partnership to make it easier for businesses to move to hybrid cloud environments. To this end, both parties are introducing new IaaS solutions and flexible consumption models.
In June 2023, Cisco and Hitachi Vantara entered into a comprehensive part... Read more
FBI proactively removes Chinese botnet malware on hundreds of SOHO routers
The FBI hindered the operations of the Chinese hacker gang Volt Typhoon yesterday. The U.S. security agency removed proactively these hackers' KV Botnet malware on hundreds of Small business and Home Office (SOHO) routers. Potential future new infections were also prevented.
According to the FBI... Read more
Zoom and Microsoft plan to shake up hybrid meetings, Cisco doesn’t
Hybrid meetings are still inferior to physical meetings in many ways. Big players like Zoom and Microsoft are bringing disruptive solutions to address these shortcomings. Meanwhile, Cisco is opting for evolution, not revolution. What future awaits virtual meetings?
Zoom announced this week that ... Read more
Critical vulnerability in Cisco UC/CC may lead to RCE attack
A number of Cisco solutions for SMBs suffer from a critical vulnerability that could lead to an RCE attack.
Cisco has issued a warning. The vulnerabilities have received a 9.9 CVSS score. The problem involves failure to process user-supplied data read into memory correctly. Hackers not logged in... Read more
HPE and Juniper take aim at Cisco with network fabric
Acquisition of Juniper Networks by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) should make the new HPE Networking BU a unique, new network player that will have to make things difficult for Cisco in particular.
During a Q&A today, HPE CEO Antonio Neri and Juniper CEO Rami Rahim already gave a small hi... Read more
Cisco acquires Isovalent, stresses importance of open-source
Cisco has acquired Isovalent. The company is thus expanding its offerings in the direction of open-source networking and security. It hopes to protect public cloud environments even better than it has before.
With this acquisition, of which no financial details were disclosed, Cisco ultimately w... Read more
Cisco changes licensing model, more changes to come
Cisco's Catalyst line, which includes switches and access points, is getting a new licensing model. Other Cisco solutions will also follow the updated licensing structure later.
The new licensing model bundles payments for hardware, software and support. There was a need of users to simplify pro... Read more
Cisco lets AI assistant help with security
The Cisco AI Assistant for Security supports businesses in making decisions, automates complex tasks and strengthens existing security tools.
The new addition to the Security Cloud was unveiled at Cisco Live in Melbourne. The AI Assistant is trained on a very large security dataset; namely, it u... Read more
Cisco doubles down on Webex: new updates change it fundamentally
Latest updates are not just extra features, we hear from Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel, but are changing the platform in a fundamental way.
This week Cisco organized WebexOne, the annual event at which the company aims to show the world all that Webex can do and how it keeps getting better. It's clear ... Read more
Cisco warns of highly critical vulnerability in IOS XE software
Cisco is warning of a highly critical authentication vulnerability in its IOS XE software. It allows hackers to gain full admin privileges, taking over entire systems remotely.
Cisco discovered the highly critical vulnerability CVE-2023-20198 in its IOS XE operating system in late September. Thr... Read more