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Good communication isn’t about the message sent; it’s about the one received. In this blog, Ruba Borno explains how empathy plays a role in getting the intended message to every audience.

To meet consumer demands for greater technological capabilities, as well as to comply with regulations and meet their own sustainability goals, Cisco’s customers are asking for more energy-efficient products.

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5G is thirteen times faster than 4G, and Wi-Fi 6 is three times as powerful as its predecessor, 802.11ac. Together they create a reliable, high-performance infrastructure to enable future network traffic. Discover their role in financial services here.

Latest video - watch now! We look at the recent FBI "webshell hacking" controversy from both sides.

Simply put: reading from RAM in your program could write to RAM in someone else's

Listen now - and have your say on this divisive issue in our comments!

Join us for Episode 2 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we discuss the history of pluggable optics in a conversation with Ray Nering, an engineering product manager in the Cisco Optics product management group.

This week Cisco launched the 2021 Security Outcomes Study for Small Midsize Businesses (SMBs). See how partners can use these findings with their customers to help have more outcomes based conversations around their security investments.

TK Keanini's first in a series of interviews with members of the Cisco Telemetry Broker team. Sunil Amin, Principal Engineer, talks about what went into creating the product.

How do financial services companies support new hybrid physical/virtual work models, deliver a seamless online customer experience, simplify secure access to multicloud apps—all while improving the security, flexibility and operational efficiency of the network?

FBI cleans up compromised Exchange servers – Data of Clubhouse users scraped and posted online – WhatsApp bug alert The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

On Aug. 13, 2020, someone uploaded a suspected malicious file to VirusTotal, a service that scans submitted files against more than five dozen antivirus and security products. Last month, Microsoft and FireEye identified that file as a newly-discovered fourth malware backdoor used in the sprawling SolarWinds supply chain hack. An analysis of the malicious file and other submissions by the same VirusTotal user suggest the account that initially flagged the backdoor as suspicious belongs to IT personnel at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a division of the U.S. Commerce Department that handles telecommunications and Internet policy.

The transition to open RAN (Radio Access Network) based on interoperable lower layer splits is gaining significant momentum across the mobile industry. However, where best to split the open RAN is a complex compromise between radio unit (RU) simplification, support of advanced coordinated multipoint RF capabilities, consequential limitations on transport delay budgets as well as bandwidth expansion. This post compares the two leading alternative splits for realizing an interoperable open RAN.

Here are some quick and easy tips to help you clean up your cyber-clutter and keep your digital footprint tidy The post Spring cleaning? Don’t forget about your digital footprint appeared first on WeLiveSecurity