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NightDragon, Cisco, WWT Partner with NPower to Drive Talent Diversity in Cyber Industry

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the talent gap continues to present a massive and growing challenge within the cybersecurity industry, NightDragon, Cisco and World Wide Technology (WWT) today announced a collaboration with NPower to increase diversity and empower individuals from all backgrounds to pursue careers in cybersecurity.

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  • Additionally, the organizations will work together to evangelize the importance of closing the cyber talent gap and increasing diversity within the industry.
  • The collaboration with NPower builds on existing efforts from Cisco, NightDragon and WWT to advance inclusion across the industry.
  • We are grateful to NPower, WWT and NightDragon for partnering with us to drive meaningful change within our industry," said Gloria Goins, Chief Diversity Officer at Cisco.
  • "At NightDragon, we believe that it takes a village to solve critical industry challenges like closing the cyber talent gap and increasing diversity across the sector.

Cisco Unlocks AI-Powered Intelligence for Self-Hosted Observability

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new virtual appliance for its AppDynamics On-Premises application observability offering, enabling customers to use a self-hosted observability solution built on AI-powered intelligence for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP monitoring. The latest innovations allow IT operations teams to detect application performance anomalies faster and with greater accuracy, protect against security vulnerabilities and attacks, and maintain the performance of SAP applications and business processes, all while retaining full control of their observability deployment. Cisco also announced AppDynamics Flex, a new licensing model that provides optionality for customers to choose between self-hosted and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) observability offerings and support them through the transition from self-hosted to SaaS when the time is right for their business.  

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new virtual appliance for its AppDynamics On-Premises application observability offering, enabling customers to use a self-hosted observability solution built on AI-powered intelligence for anomaly detection and root cause analysis, application security, and SAP monitoring.
  • While there has been a significant increase in demand for SaaS observability solutions in recent years, for many organizations, self-hosted observability solutions remain in high demand.
  • Self-hosted observability - also referred to as customer-managed observability - includes on-premises deployments or cloud-based deployments where the customer retains control of all the data and associated operations.
  • "As a partner for Cisco AppDynamics and Full-Stack Observability, SG Solutions is committed to helping our joint customers with observability solutions for their applications wherever their business regulation requires," said Jindřich Kasal, CEO, SG Solutions.

Cisco Schedules Conference Call for Q3 Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results

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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

To Listen via the Internet:

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  • To Listen via the Internet:
    A telephone playback of the Q3 FY2024 conference call is scheduled to be available beginning at 4:00 PM (PT) on May 15, 2024, through 4:00 PM (PT) May 21, 2024.
  • The replay will be accessible by calling 800-391-9851 (International callers: 203-369-3268).
  • The call runs 24 hours/day, including weekends.

Cisco is Delivering on Platform Strategy with Rapid Innovation Across Cisco Security Cloud

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Monday, May 6, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA CONFERENCE 2024 -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise networking and security, today announced new industry-shaping innovations across the Cisco Security Cloud to both power and protect the AI revolution. The new capabilities across Cisco's unified, AI-driven, cross-domain security platform help companies better protect their applications, devices, users and data as well as detect, respond and recover faster from incidents.

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  • Cisco Identity Intelligence is now available in Cisco Duo to enable Continuous Identity Security to protect organizations against the sharp rise in identity-based attacks.
  • "At the RSA Conference last year, we delivered enhanced customer efficacy and economics through a true platform approach to security with the Cisco Security Cloud.
  • With 'zero to one' innovation like Cisco Hypershield and strategic acquisitions like Splunk and Isovalent, the power of Cisco's security platform is supercharged and unmatched."
  • "Cisco's integrated AI-driven platform, the Cisco Security Cloud, is a solution that helps reduce complexity.

Cisco and Morgan Solar unlock clean energy adoption in office spaces

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Monday, April 22, 2024

TORONTO, April 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Cisco and Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based company that specializes in solutions for integrating solar energy into urban environments, have announced a pilot project to power collaboration and meeting spaces with solar energy.

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  • Cisco and Morgan Solar are piloting a project that powers collaboration and meeting spaces with solar energy.
  • TORONTO, April 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Cisco and Morgan Solar, a Toronto-based company that specializes in solutions for integrating solar energy into urban environments, have announced a pilot project to power collaboration and meeting spaces with solar energy.
  • The concept leverages Morgan Solar’s Energy Blinds, capturing clean, solar energy in a direct current (DC) microgrid, and Cisco’s Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) switch, which helps to distribute energy within the room.
  • If expanded across office spaces, the solution could enable greater energy efficiency and on-site energy generation than rooftop solar alone.

Cisco Reimagines Security for Data Centers and Clouds in Era of AI

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in security and networking, today unveiled a radically new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure. Cisco is rearchitecting how we harness and protect AI and other modern workloads with industry-first, Cisco Hypershield. With this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping the scales in favor of defenders, building on its recent announcements to accelerate AI infrastructure with Cisco's ethernet switching, silicon and compute portfolio.

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  • Cisco is rearchitecting how we harness and protect AI and other modern workloads with industry-first, Cisco Hypershield.
  • Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it.
  • "Cisco Hypershield is one of the most significant security innovations in our history," said Chuck Robbins, Cisco Chair and CEO.
  • "With our data advantage and strength in security, infrastructure and observability platforms, Cisco is uniquely positioned to help our customers harness the power of AI."

Cisco Reimagines Security for Data Centers and Clouds in Era of AI

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in security and networking, today unveiled a radically new approach to securing data centers and clouds in response to the increasing demands the AI revolution has put on IT infrastructure. Cisco is rearchitecting how we harness and protect AI and other modern workloads with industry-first, Cisco Hypershield. With this unprecedented innovation, Cisco is tipping the scales in favor of defenders, building on its recent announcements to accelerate AI infrastructure with Cisco's ethernet switching, silicon and compute portfolio.

Key Points: 
  • Cisco is rearchitecting how we harness and protect AI and other modern workloads with industry-first, Cisco Hypershield.
  • Cisco Hypershield protects applications, devices and data across public and private data centers, clouds and physical locations - anywhere customers need it.
  • "Cisco Hypershield is one of the most significant security innovations in our history," said Chuck Robbins, Cisco Chair and CEO.
  • "With our data advantage and strength in security, infrastructure and observability platforms, Cisco is uniquely positioned to help our customers harness the power of AI."

Cisco Completes Acquisition of Isovalent to Define the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security

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Friday, April 12, 2024

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the completion of the acquisition of Isovalent, a leader in open source cloud native networking and security. This marks a significant step forward in Cisco's commitment to define the future of secure, multicloud networking.

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  • Cisco has completed the acquisition of Isovalent, Inc., a leader in open source cloud native networking and security
    Cisco is committed to nurturing and supporting eBPF, Cilium, Tetragon, and cloud native open source communities
    SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the completion of the acquisition of Isovalent, a leader in open source cloud native networking and security.
  • This marks a significant step forward in Cisco's commitment to define the future of secure, multicloud networking.
  • Isovalent's innovative technologies will become a cornerstone of the Cisco Security Cloud vision, an AI-driven, cloud-delivered, integrated security platform designed to accommodate organizations of any size, offering cutting-edge protection against threats in a multicloud world.
  • The Isovalent team joins the Cisco Security Business Group.

Cisco to Host Tech Talk on Splunk

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Sami Badri, Head of Investor Relations & Strategic Finance, Cisco

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Sami Badri, Head of Investor Relations & Strategic Finance, Cisco
This event will be webcast and a replay will be available shortly after the event.  Interested parties can register for and view this event on Cisco's Investor Relations website at investor.cisco.com .

Cisco Study Reveals Very Few Organizations in Canada Prepared to Defend Against Today's Rapidly Evolving Threat Landscape

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

TORONTO, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Only one per cent of organizations in Canada have the ‘Mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against modern cybersecurity risks, according to Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) 2024 Cybersecurity Readiness Index.

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  • Only one per cent of organizations in Canada have the ‘Mature’ level of readiness needed to be resilient against today’s cybersecurity risks.
  • The 2024 Cisco Cybersecurity Readiness Index was developed in an era defined by hyperconnectivity and a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
  • Companies today continue to be targeted with a variety of techniques that range from phishing and ransomware to supply chain and social engineering attacks.
  • “We cannot underestimate the threat posed by our own overconfidence,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration at Cisco.