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Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), we’ve all heard of this often-used term (maybe overused) but what does it mean? What do you get if you have one and how do you get it? All great questions that begs to be answered.

Earlier this month Cisco released their 2017 Mid-year Cybersecurity Report. Cisco has been publishing this comprehensive cybersecurity report for nearly a decade with the goal to keep security teams updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and steps they can take to improve security and cyber-resiliency. The latest report highlights the “rapid evolution of threats and the magnitude of the...

Cisco Live day three started with a security keynote with Cisco Chief Security & Trust Officer, John N. Stewart. Stewart opened with bold statements about IoT and today's digital transformation. He dove into many of the dilemma's IT teams today:

Only 46 days after the WannaCry ransomware attack began a new threat has emerged, and appears to be spreading quickly. "Researchers with multiple firms identified the ransomware as Petya, malware that makes computers inoperable by encrypting their hard drives and demands ransoms in exchange for a digital key to restore access." [Reuters] 

In our first LookingPoint Tech Talk Dominic Zeni, LookingPoint Consulting Services SME, discusses Cisco's Identity Services Engine, how it works, and why you should care. 

As threats become more sophisticated, organizations are responding by introducing layers of security that go beyond just securing your internet edge and deploying anti-virus on the desktops. A big challenge with this approach is managing the often disparate systems that make up these layers. Cisco has made huge strides to correct this with their software releases this year, but in reality, it...

Network security is often delegated to singular devices within the network. For instance, you might allow unfettered access for all endpoints within the core of your corporate network and enforce the access policy at the edge firewall. For your wireless users, you might choose to enforce a singular policy for all users allowing every wireless user access to HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, and Telnet and...

Fireside Chats are a LookingPoint video series where we bring casual technology conversations to you! In this chat we are discussing a topic that many of our customers are talking about this year: Security and Network Visibility. Sit back, relax, and enjoy another fireside chat. 

Collaboration solutions for the modern workforce are focused more and more on enabling the mobile workforce, and why should security be any different? Today’s workforce is digitizing rapidly with more and more companies’ business model reflecting trends like mobility and “bring your own device”. The exponential growth of online devices is expected to grow from 15B today to 500B by 2030. With...

Last week Cisco hosted it’s second Partner Summit of 2016 in San Francisco, CA. At the summit Cisco announced the release of numerous new products and product updates to its partners. A few members of the LookingPoint team attended the summit and shared with us their top takeaways and exciting announcements from the Partner Summit.