Top 5 Reasons You Should Consider Cisco ASA with FirePOWER

IT has reported a rising number of cyberattacks over the past twelve months. While threats are on the upswing, IT has also gotten pretty good at repelling those attacks during that same period. That’s certainly good news, however, there’s still work to be done to ensure cybercriminals’ persistence doesn’t start to pay off any time […]
Improve Network Access Control with Cisco’s ISE Portal Builder

How’s this for a balancing act? A company’s network must be an impenetrable fortress to the wrong people (hackers and cyber crooks) while being easily accessible and user-friendly to the right ones (employees, guests and all of their devices). That’s the security tightrope today’s IT pros must walk. However, there is a solution: Cisco’s Identity […]
What is Advanced Threat Analytics?

In early August, I happened to be working on some Enterprise Mobility Suite collateral and noticed that the price of it went up about a dollar per user per month. What could account for this change? Well, Advanced Threat Analytics had been added to the Enterprise Mobility Suite. Just to recap, EMS is much more than […]
Cisco Study Reveals Perception Gap on IT Security

You’ve heard of the generation gap, well, it turns out there’s also an IT-security-perception gap. The name doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, but here’s how it works: Ask IT leaders about the state of their companies’ security and there’s a decent chance they’ll reply with a rosy image. Ask companies’ lower level […]