Tag: cisco

Introducing Cisco Meraki Presence Analytics

Presence displays real-time location statistics to improve customer engagement and loyalty across sites, and is built-in to Cisco Meraki APs with no additional cost or complexity. Data collected by APs is synced with the Cisco Meraki cloud and automatically reported in the dashboard, revealing visitor traffic trends, dwell time, and new vs. repeat visitor loyalty. […]

Episode 95: Cisco vs. Aruba — Network Visibility

Examining Aruba’s Spectrum Analyzer Claims. See a technical side-by-side comparison of the Cisco CleanAir proactive spectrum management solution and Aruba Networks’ RFProtect analysis tool. Discover ways that Aruba’s spectrum analysis tool may fail to mitigate RF interference, with the potential to reduce enterprise productivity. The time has come for mainstream spectrum management, and IT managers […]

Java Patch Plugs 19 Security Holes

Oracle this week released its quarterly patch update for Java , a widely-installed program that for most casual users has probably introduced more vulnerability than utility. If you have Java installed and require it for some application or Web site, it’s time to update it. If you’re not sure you have Java on your computer or are unsure why you still have it, read on for advice that could save you some security headaches down the road

Achieving Data Center Agility With Converged Infrastructure

Most enterprises rely on their data centers to offer services to internal and external users. Important concerns for any data center today include the following: Faster provisioning of new services to meet sudden business demands Scaling existing services without affecting users Optimizing resources for reduced power and energy costs Achieving service-level agreements (SLAs) Reducing management complexities Reducing energy costs Provisioning and Scaling Services Data centers must be more agile to meet growing business needs. The conventional infrastructure is very rigid and takes a lot of time for both provisioning and expansion.

Still Spamming After All These Years

A long trail of spam, dodgy domains and hijacked Internet addresses leads back to a 37-year-old junk email purveyor in San Diego who was the first alleged spammer to have been criminally prosecuted 13 years ago for blasting unsolicited commercial email. Last month, security experts at Cisco blogged about spam samples caught by the company’s SpamCop service, which maintains a blacklist of known spam sources

Who’s Watching Your WebEx?

KrebsOnSecurity spent a good part of the past week working with Cisco to alert more than four dozen companies — many of them household names — about regular corporate WebEx conference meetings that lack passwords and are thus open to anyone who wants to listen in. Department of Energy’s WebEx meetings. At issue are recurring video- and audio conference-based meetings that companies make available to their employees via WebEx, a set of online conferencing tools run by Cisco