There’s a growing realization among leaders in the cybersecurity community that 2020 will be the year of significant legislative action to protect user data. The problem is that safeguarding data may actually be harder than ever. “There’s more activity, more concern and more acknowledgment of privacy now than I have seen in the last 30 ...

Point products have created a feeling of “tool fatigue” for many enterprises today, especially when it comes to security. Cybersecurity infrastructure has grown significantly for many organizations, and Cisco Systems Inc. has responded to this concern around too many tools with a simplified platform containing zero trust, cloud endpoint, and breach defense capabilities. This should ...

When Cisco Systems Inc. acquired Voicea Inc. last year, the move prompted speculation around how the firm’s technology would enhance its Webex product. This week, Cisco delivered an answer. The company announced at its Cisco Live event in Barcelona that it would integrate Voicea’s technology into its Webex video collaboration platform, providing users with speech recognition ...

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, a new decade commenced with four U.S. technology companies at or very close to the $1 trillion mark in valuation. The question on the table for the next eight to 10 years is whether Apple Corp., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Inc. will manage to stay ...

Cisco Systems Inc. made a series of announcements at its Cisco Live EU conference today in Barcelona that were designed to help its customers deliver and monitor applications from the edge to cloud. The networking giant is leveraging its application monitoring software — AppDynamics — along with an Intersight Workload Optimizer tool to optimize the infrastructure where ...

Big fish eat smaller fish, and in the annals of corporate acquisitions, Cisco Systems Inc. has a well-documented, king-sized appetite. Since its founding in 1984, Cisco has acquired more than 200 firms, an average of approximately six per year. The company’s acquisition strategy has been the subject of Harvard case studies, detailed media profiles and continual ...

Cars have basically become computers on wheels, and there is one startup company that wants to give “feeling the road” a whole new meaning. Tactile Mobility Ltd. was founded eight years ago with a mission to fill a missing gap for smart and autonomous vehicles. While advances in automotive technology resulted in a comprehensive visual-based ...

It would be nice if imported open-source code arrived vulnerability free, but that’s not how the real world works. Code can have hidden traps, and corporate cybersecurity organizations are often too busy putting out fires to effectively monitor open-source integrations for cleverly disguised viruses or malware. So, why not put security tools in the hands ...

In 2011, the co-creator of GitLab Inc., Dmitriy Zaporozhets, found himself working for a software company in the Ukraine, and he had a choice to make: Bring running water to his home and avoid daily trips to the communal well, or create a collaboration tool to make the lives of software developers easier. He chose the latter, and ...

What can’t be seen also can’t be protected. That’s why NetScout Systems Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. have teamed up to provide customers with a networking security feature to improve security. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Traffic Mirroring enables AWS customers to replicate network traffic from an EC2 instance and forward it to security appliances for ...