Stories by Michael Cooney

Tweaks to ISE, DNA Center can better track, secure internet of things devices

Cisco’s Tetration analytics upgrade focuses on protecting data center workloads and detects potential application vulnerabilities.

Are you getting the most out of your next generation firewall? Probably not if you take to heart recent research from SafeBreach.

Cisco today warned user of a critical vulnerability in its CVR100W Wireless-N VPN router execute that could let an attacker issues arbitrary code or cause a denial of service situation.

Cisco had a pretty large dump of security advisories today – seven “high priority” and one “critical” – impacting a variety of products.

Cisco today issued two “critical” security advisories, one for Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software, the other for the ongoing discovery of problems with Apache Struts2

Cisco issues one "Critical" warning for vulnerability in Aironet 1830 Series and 1850 Series Access Points

Cisco today closed its approximately $3.7 billion deal for application analytics specialist AppDynamics.

A vulnerability in Cisco’s widely deployed IOS software that was disclosed in the recent WikiLeaks dump of CIA exploits has triggered the company to release a critical warning for its Catalyst networking customers.

In its quarterly financial results announcement, this week, Cisco said it had set aside $125 million to help cover the cost of replacing networking gear impacted by a fatal clock component.

In an attempt to address such anxieties Cisco today announced Umbrella, a secure, cloud-based gateway, based on technology from OpenDNS and other technologies it acquired such as CloudLock as well as existing Cisco security services that together ultimately promises to offer secure business access to resources even when users are not using the safety of a VPN.

Cisco has rolled out a second release of its Tetration Analytics package with features such as a smaller footprint and a cloud service that will go a long way toward making the system alluring to more data center customers.

Interestingly the TSA finds some amusement or amazement in these finding as it now posts its own Top 10 Most Unusual Finds which outlines the most “dangerous and often times wacky items” it has kept off commercial airliners.

IBM and NASA have had one of the longest, most successful relationships in the high-tech world and it looks like the future holds much the same.

IBM Watson goes to the enterprise with 40 companies now adding smarts to the cognitive system.