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Cisco Finds Organizations Not Ready to Operate as Usual During Workforce Disruptions

2009-11-23T12:00:00+00:00

SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 23, 2009 – Cisco today announced the results of its 'Securing the Mobile Workforce' nationwide survey, conducted last month. The survey shows that while many organizations appreciate the increased employee productivity and other benefits offered by laptop computers, smart phones and virtual private networks, they may be unprepared to enable the majority ...

Global Security Information Now On-the-Go with Cisco iPhone Application

2009-11-20T12:00:00+00:00

SAN FRANCISCO – November 20, 2009 – Cisco today announced the availability of Cisco® SIO To Go, an Apple iPhone application that puts the power of the Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO) in users' hands, giving them real-time access to a wealth of actionable global security information no matter where they are. The Cisco SIO iPhone application enables users to ...

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire ScanSafe, Leading SaaS Web Security Provider

2009-10-27T12:00:00+00:00

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct. 27, 2009 – Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held ScanSafe, Inc. Based in London and San Francisco, ScanSafe is a market leader of software-as- a-service (SaaS) Web security solutions for organizations ranging from global enterprises to small businesses. "With the acquisition of ScanSafe, Cisco is executing on our vision to ...

Digital Schools Sponsored by Cisco Are Set to Connect Isolated Islands to IT Opportunities

2009-10-19T12:00:00+00:00

October 19, 2009 By Mike Stone Some 1500 km from Lisbon and about 3900 km from the east coast of North America, the Azores may appear cut off from the world. But this Portuguese Autonomous Region is becoming more connected every day, in part thanks to a digital schools project supported by the Cisco® Networking Academy®. The project is part of an ambitious initiative which ...

Cisco Shines a Spotlight on the Dark Web

2009-10-08T12:00:00+00:00

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 8, 2009 – Cisco today launched Cisco® IronPort® Web Usage Controls, a next-generation acceptable-use product that offers real-time content categorization to accurately identify up to 90 percent of Dark Web sites in the most egregious content categories. Web 2.0 sites built on collaboration technologies with dynamic content and high churn are ...