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Welcome back! In this entry, we're diving into one of the most compelling features of Cisco Secure Access – Clientless Zero Trust Access, or as I like to call it, "the VPN killer that actually works." If you've been following along with our zero-trust journey, you know that the traditional perimeter-based security model is about as effective as a screen door on a submarine. So, what's the...

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In today’s world, employees use their phones and tablets for both personal and work tasks. That’s great for productivity—but it also means company data can end up on devices outside your control. Microsoft Intune makes this easy with App Protection Policies (APP)—a simple way to keep corporate information safe without touching personal apps or data.

In today’s fast-moving digital landscape, organizations don’t just need technology; they need someone to help them use it well. That’s why partnering with a technology integrator has become one of the smartest moves an IT team can make. A strong integrator does far more than deploy solutions. They bring a true Customer Success practice to ensure your technology delivers measurable outcomes,...

I’ve always been fascinated by the quiet resilience of infrastructure — the invisible backbone that keeps businesses humming. But nothing highlights that resilience quite like an unexpected outage in the field.

Welcome back to our exploration of modern zero trust technologies! In this entry, we're going to pull back the curtain on Cisco Secure Access and examine how Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) client traffic steering actually works under the hood. If you've been wondering how your private applications and internet traffic know which path to take through the Secure Access cloud, you're in for a...

In three decades we went from shared 10 Mb hubs and beige pizza-box routers to leaf-spine fabrics pushing 400 GbE (and beyond), software-defined overlays, and AI-optimized data centers with liquid cooling and smart NICs. The big shifts: switches replaced hubs, virtualization and cloud changed traffic patterns, leaf-spine killed big L2 domains, EVPN-VXLAN became the standard overlay, copper gave...

In today’s connected world, protecting your business means more than simply having a firewall in place. Threats evolve by the minute, and every misconfiguration or missed update creates potential risk. A Managed Firewall is the smarter way to keep your defenses strong; combining advanced technology with continuous oversight from security experts. At LookingPoint, we built our Managed Firewall...

Wifi-7 (802.11be) was ratified last year and we have now started seeing vendors shipping APs based on these new standards. In this post lets discuss what is new with Wifi-7 and compare it to how it its an improvement over Wifi-6e.

Managing large numbers of devices in Microsoft Entra ID is easier when you organize them into groups. These groups can be used for applying policies, deploying apps, and managing access through Intune or other Microsoft services.