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Vinccler: When the Cloud’s Backbone Falters: Why Digital Resilience Demands More Than Redundancy

On October 20, users around the world experienced the effects of a widespread AWS outage. In this article, we’ll explore why operations teams need multilayered assurance to understand their cloud dependencies and outline steps they can take now to prepare for future incidents. View Source

Vinccler: SecureBERT 2.0: Cisco’s next-gen AI model powering cybersecurity applications

Today, we are excited to share that the SecureBERT 2.0 model is available on HuggingFace and GitHub with an accompanying research paper. This release marks a significant milestone, building on the already widely adopted SecureBERT model to unlock even more advanced cybersecurity applications. Just see this unparalleled performance across real-world tasks: In 2022, the first […] View Source

Vinccler: IPv6 in 2025 – Transitioning to IPv6

Discover how organizations are navigating the evolving landscape of IPv6, from dual-stack deployments to an IPv6-only future, and see how Cisco is guiding customers every step of the way.. View Source

Vinccler: Build Toward What’s Next with Cisco Marketplace

Cisco Marketplace helps IT teams modernize operations with curated integrations to automate tasks, cut alert noise, and connect workflows. Start now. View Source

Vinccler: SE Labs Names Cisco Secure Firewall Best Enterprise NGFW 2025

Cisco Secure Firewall wins SE Labs’ 2025 Best NGFW award — the first ever to earn dual AAA ratings for both protection and performance. Zero breaches, Zero compromises. View Source

Vinccler: Cyber resilience for all: How Cisco and NIIT Foundation are securing India’s digital future

As India's digital transformation accelerates, Cisco and NIIT Foundation are meeting the moment with Cyber Suraksha — training over one million people in cybersecurity while creating pathways to opportunity and building a safer, more digitally resilient future for all. View Source

Vinccler: The Network as the Foundation for Unlocking Value in the AI Era

How Cisco is empowering our partners with the skills, insights, and tools to lead every AI-ready networking conversation and help customers deliver on the promise of AI. View Source

Vinccler: Partner Study Shows Greater Urgency to Realize AI’s Value, Emerging Opportunities with Agentic and Edge AI

Cisco’s 2025 partner survey reveals urgent customer demand for AI value, highlighting infrastructure, data, and talent gaps. Partners can drive growth by leveraging Cisco’s AI training and specialization programs. View Source

Vinccler: Building Bonds Beyond Business: How Human Connection Defines Cisco Culture

Security Engineering Technical Leader Cole A. shares how a trip to India — and a teammate’s wedding — revealed the power of Cisco’s people-first culture. View Source

Vinccler: Answering the AI Data Center Bottleneck with Efficiency and Scale

This blog explores how public policy and technology innovations are working to address critical challenges facing AI data centers, enabling greater energy-efficiency, performance, and scale. View Source

Vinccler: Striving for Sustainability: Meet Ajay

Learn more about Ajay Ranjith Vempati, Circular Design Lead at Cisco, who is embedding circularity into Cisco’s product design. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Customer Achievement Awards: APJC 2025 Finalists

Cisco is thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural Cisco Customer Achievement Awards in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China (APJC) region! These awards celebrate and honor the remarkable achievements of our customers—organizations that are redefining what’s possible through innovation, collaboration, and digital transformation. View Source

Vinccler: From Perimeter to SOC: How Integrating Cisco Firewalls with Splunk Delivers End-to-End Threat Visibility and Compliance

Learn how Cisco Firewalls and Splunk integration strengthens SOC visibility, improves compliance readiness, and empowers teams with actionable security insights. View Source

Vinccler: Achieve Digital Resilience Through AI-Powered Observability and Assurance

Visibility isn't enough—to ensure digital resilience, security, and performance, organizations need integrated, AI-augmented network observability and assurance focused on the user experience. View Source

Vinccler: SSE That Thinks in Identity and Adapts Access

Identity doesn’t stay still. Trust shifts. Behavior fluctuates. Posture changes. Cisco Secure Access leverages rich data from identity, behaviors, and devices. View Source

Vinccler: Securing the AI agent supply chain with Cisco’s open-source MCP Scanner

As enterprises integrate AI agents into their technology stacks, these agents increasingly rely on external tools and services to navigate complex technology environments. Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI models to access external functionalities, tools, resources, and prompts without custom API integrations. At Cisco, we recognize that MCP adoption and utilization brings new and complex […] View Source

Vinccler: The Architectural Convergence of Hybrid Mesh Firewall and Universal Zero Trust

Learn how Cisco secure campus solutions and Hybrid Mesh Firewall build security into campus networks, reducing attack surfaces and protecting against advanced threats and rapid malware. View Source

Vinccler: 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report Sheds Light on Evolving Technology

A new report from Cisco shows that segmentation is a foundational security technology, but few are fully implementing both macro- and micro-segmentation today. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco’s circular design goal: Our journey to 100%

Cisco has reached its goal to incorporate Circular Design Principles into 100% of new products and packaging by the end of our 2025 fiscal year. View Source

Vinccler: The New Standard for Accurate Power Measurement in AI Data Centers

As AI raises the stakes for energy efficiency, precision is paramount. Discover how Cisco researchers have achieved a breakthrough in power measurement accuracy—paving the way for substantially smarter infrastructure decision-making. View Source

Vinccler: Future-Proof Your Wi-Fi Network with These Three AI-Driven Innovations

Discover how leading IT teams are transforming wireless networks with AI-driven intelligent automation, real-time optimization, and streamlined access control. Learn about the latest Cisco innovations that deliver seamless, secure, and reliable Wi-Fi experiences at scale. View Source

Vinccler: Powering Your AI-Ready Campus of the Future: Join us at EDUCAUSE 2025

Discover how Cisco’s AI-ready solutions are empowering higher education institutions to securely unlock the full potential of AI—visit us at EDUCAUSE 2025 and lead your campus into the future. View Source

Vinccler: Unleash(ed) AI: The Rise of Cognitive Security Operations

Discover how Cognitive Security, powered by agentic AI, transforms cyber defense. Learn how Cisco helps organizations move from reactive to proactive security operations. Explore now → View Source

Vinccler: New Investments, Stronger Grids: Elevating Rural Electric Cooperative Security

In towns and communities across the nation, rural electric cooperatives form the foundation of America’s power grid, delivering energy to millions of homes, businesses, and critical services. As the grid becomes more connected and digitized, these cooperatives face an evolving threat landscape—where cyber resilience is no longer optional, but essential. To help address these challenges, […] View Source

Vinccler: 5 Steps to Building Resilient Industrial Networks

Securing complex industrial environments can seem overwhelming. However, by adopting a structured, step-by-step approach, you can build a strong defense. Read this blog to discover Cisco’s 5-step framework to help you improve your industrial cybersecurity practices. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Secure Firewall 1220: Snort3 – Uncompromised Performance in Rigorous Testing

This evaluation validates our commitment to delivering lightning-fast speed and impeccable protection, engineered to keep the most sophisticated threats away. View Source

Vinccler: Why Machine Speed Needs Machine Trust

When AI operates faster than humans can evaluate, assurance helps ensure safe and accurate decisions, continuously validating AI-driven actions in real time. View Source

Vinccler: Celebrating 10 Years of Lifecycle Advantage: A Decade of Innovation and Success

Celebrating 10 years of Cisco Lifecycle Advantage: empowering partners with digital and AI-driven journeys to deliver customer success, streamline renewals, and drive innovation for the next decade. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco IT’s network observability transformation

Read how Cisco IT rapidly created and deployed a scalable observability system, delivering unified, actionable insights across its network environment. View Source

Vinccler: Mastering the Course of Wireless Transformation with Cisco and USGA

Read how Cisco powered the 125th U.S. Open with Wi-Fi 7, 550 access points, and a cloud-managed gateway for seamless, scalable connectivity and enhanced fan experiences. View Source

Vinccler: Find Yourself in the Future: How Generative AI is Reshaping Entry-Level Cybersecurity Job Roles

Cisco Networking Academy examines the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on cybersecurity careers. View Source

Vinccler: Betting on the Next Decade: Why Cisco’s Innovation Strategy Should Shape Your Partner Roadmap

Discover how Cisco’s innovation strategy is shaping the next decade—from agentic AI and quantum networking to advanced AI infrastructure—and why strategic partners gain a decisive market advantage by joining early. View Source

Vinccler: Igniting our future workforce: Shaping the future in Europe through Cisco Networking Academy

Our European Cisco Networking Academy Partner Conference in Thessaloniki brought together Cisco Networking Academy teachers, government leaders, and public/private sector collaborators from across the region to celebrate the achievements of the past year and to anticipate even greater successes ahead. View Source

Vinccler: Announcing a New Framework for Securing AI-Generated Code

Software teams worldwide now rely on AI coding agents to boost productivity and streamline code creation. But security hasn’t kept up. AI-generated code often lacks basic protections: insecure defaults, missing input validation, hardcoded secrets, outdated cryptographic algorithms, and reliance on end-of-life dependencies are common. These gaps create vulnerabilities that can easily be introduced and often […] View Source

Vinccler: Think Like an Adversary: How Cisco Safely Finds the Flaws Attackers *Will* Exploit

Take a look at how Cisco penetration testing strengthens your defenses. View Source

Vinccler: Common Threat Themes: Defending Against Lateral Movement (Part 1)

Discover why lateral movement is a key tactic in cyber breaches and how defenders can strengthen security by focusing on this critical threat vector. View Source

Vinccler: 20 years of Cisco Crisis Response: Reflecting on resilience from Hurricane Katrina to Helene

As we mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene and the 20th anniversary of Cisco Crisis Response (CCR), I find myself reflecting on the true meaning of resilience — both within communities facing unimaginable disaster and within the teams mobilizing to help restore hope. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco research warns EU infrastructure debt could be the emerging drag on AI value

About 7% of organizations in the EU are fully prepared to leverage AI. Early warning signs point to a gap between AI ambition and operational readiness. View Source

Vinccler: Your Future, Powered by AI: Cisco’s Game-Changing Partner Experience Platform

Cisco's AI-powered Partner Experience Platform (PXP) revolutionizes the partner journey with Cisco’s AI Assistant. It's the "front door" to the Cisco 360 Partner Program. PXP delivers real-time support, insights, empowering partners for growth, informed decisions, and profitability in the AI era. View Source

Vinccler: Ultra Ethernet for Scalable AI Network Deployment

Cisco, in collaboration with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), is addressing the networking challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) data centers with innovative solutions like link layer retry (LLR), credit-based flow control (CBFC), packet trimming, and congestion signaling. Discover how Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches empower organizations to build reliable, high-performance, and scalable infrastructure for the AI era. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco & NetApp: Powering Enterprise Data Centers with AI Networking and Storage

Power your AI transformation with Cisco AI Networking and NetApp AFX—a unified, scalable, high-performance infrastructure solution designed to accelerate innovation, simplify operations, and unlock the full potential of enterprise AI. View Source

Vinccler: Two Years Ago, I Took a Chance — Now I’m at Cisco Living the Dream

Jordan B., Inside Account Executive, shares his full-circle journey to Cisco, immersed in people-first culture, mentorship, and growth. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Joins Forces with OCP in the Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) Collaboration

Cisco is proud to continue our efforts to accelerate scale-up connectivity as an initial member of the Open Compute Project’s (OCP) Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) collaboration. View Source

Vinccler: Unlock GPU Clouds with Cisco AI PODs and Rafay

Discover how Cisco AI PODs and Rafay GPU PaaS deliver secure, self-service, production-ready GPU cloud platforms—accelerating AI adoption with governance, efficiency, and multi-tenant control. View Source

Vinccler: Your Computing Future Is at the Edge: Are You Ready for AI’s New Frontier?

Central to AI transformation is an edge infrastructure that helps drive innovation. Learn how a unified edge strategy unleashes the full power of data and computing for AI. View Source

Vinccler: Empowering Rural Healthcare: How Cisco and HCF Drive Digital Transformation

Unlock the full potential of rural healthcare—discover how the Rural Healthcare Connect Fund, paired with Cisco’s innovative solutions, empowers providers to modernize their networks, enhance patient care, and overcome unique rural challenges. View Source

Vinccler: SVS Engineers: Who are the people that test-drive your network?

Cisco Solution Validation Services (SVS) engineers design tailored test blueprints, validate complex network deployments in labs, and deliver future-proof, reliable solutions. View Source

Vinccler: Your Direct Line to Cisco Automation: Ask Ed Novak About Workflows

Have you ever wished you could sit down with the engineer building Cisco’s cutting-edge automation tools and ask them anything? On October 8, that’s exactly what you’ll get.  Join us for a truly unique, interactive session where Ed Novak, a Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer, will be live to answer your questions about Cisco Workflows. This […] View Source

Vinccler: The New Benchmark for Distributed AI Networking

Today’s AI clusters can no longer be confined within a single data center. Instead, a “scale-across” approach is needed to seamlessly extend AI workloads and optimize resources across multiple data center locations. Cisco is introducing the Cisco 8223, our latest addition to the Cisco 8000 fixed series routers based on the groundbreaking Silicon One P200 ASIC, optimized for deep-buffered WAN and Data Center Interconnect. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Silicon One P200 Powers the First 51.2T Scale-Across Routing Systems

Cisco Silicon One has reached a pivotal milestone with the launch of the Cisco 8223—powered by Silicon One P200—delivering an unprecedented 51.2 Tbps capacity that sets the industry standard for the emerging "scale-across" era, where AI workloads must be distributed geographically due to power constraints that have become the primary limiting factor in AI scaling. This groundbreaking routing system uniquely converges routing and switching capabilities with unmatched power efficiency, advanced programmability, and uncompromising security—enabling hyperscalers to confidently architect distributed AI environments that seamlessly extend across broad geographical regions for sustained AI innovation and growth. View Source

Vinccler: Defining a Standard Taxonomy for Segmentation

We need a standardized taxonomy so organizations can evaluate, implement and manage segmentation projects most effectively. View Source

Vinccler: Cisco Duo MSP: Your Trusted Identity and Access Management is Available Through Distribution

Cisco Duo for MSPs is now available via Secure MSP Center MSLA, enabling MSPs to deliver scalable, cloud-based security and identity solutions easily through their chosen Cisco Authorized Distributor. View Source

Vinccler: Revolutionizing Farming: Planet Farms and Cisco Industrial Networks

Planet Farms uses Cisco URWB to power automated, sustainable vertical farming with reliable, ultra-low latency wireless connectivity for robots and AGVs. View Source

Vinccler: A Tech Career That Makes Room for Life — and a Book

Ana N., Marketing Networking Manager, shares how Cisco's supportive culture and flexibility helped her balance career, family, and made her dream of authoring a book a reality. View Source

Vinccler: Future-Ready WAN: New Innovations in Cisco SD-WAN

This blog explores the latest innovations in Cisco SD-WAN, designed to simplify operations, strengthen security, and streamline cloud connectivity. Learn how these enhancements help IT teams manage complexity with ease, improve performance, and stay ahead in an increasingly dynamic network landscape. View Source

Vinccler: Trust and Talent: The Human Foundations for AI Adoption

Building trust and skills is key to unlocking AI’s full potential. Discover how collaboration shapes AI’s future. View Source

Vinccler: Racing Against Threats: How Cisco Security Powers McLaren’s F1 Prowess

Discover how Cisco helps McLaren protect data and stay fast with world-class cybersecurity across every track and continent. View Source

Vinccler: Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Become a Champion of Digital Resilience

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is here, and so are our tried-and-true offers to help you leap to the forefront of cyber tech. There’s never been a better time to find your place in cybersecurity or take your career to the next level. This month, it’s all about driving digital resilience. Cisco Cybersecurity Training and Certification Giveaway […] View Source

Vinccler: Building a Digital Backbone: How States Can Modernize Rural Healthcare with RHTP Funding

Discover how states can leverage $50 billion in federal funding to modernize rural healthcare through secure, scalable digital infrastructure—and why timely action is critical to transform care for millions. View Source

Vinccler: Zero Trust: The Foundation of Industrial Cyber Defense

Zero trust architecture reduces industrial cyber risks. Learn how Cisco helps secure OT networks at scale without disrupting production. View Source

Vinccler: Revolutionizing Farming: Planet Farms & Cisco Industrial Networks

Planet Farms uses Cisco URWB to power automated, sustainable vertical farming with reliable, ultra-low latency wireless connectivity for robots and AGVs. View Source

Vinccler: Don’t Miss Out: Attend the 2025 OCP Global Summit

The 2025 OCP Global Summit is fast approaching, and Cisco is set to showcase its latest innovations in AI networking, security, and open networking. Discover how these groundbreaking solutions from Cisco—spanning AI infrastructure, P4 programmability, and SONiC—are empowering organizations to lead in the AI era. View Source

Vinccler: Connected Intelligence: Building the workplace of today for the workforce of tomorrow​

Today, as artificial intelligence reshapes our world, the fabric of how we work—and who we work and connect with—is changing in ways we have only ever imagined. Tomorrow’s workplaces will look dramatically different—not just because of new technologies, but because the fundamental nature of work itself is evolving. View Source

Vinccler: How Cisco IT streamlined network operations with Cisco Catalyst Center and Splunk

Discover how Cisco IT uses Catalyst Center automation and AI to streamline network operations and cut code vulnerabilities by 97%, slash upgrade times by 59%, and reduce MTTR and MTTD. View Source