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Microsoft making significant update to Windows Secure Boot
56+ min ago (482+ words) Microsoft is about to make a significant upgrade to its Secure Boot system and if enterprise customers have not gotten started on the upgrade already, they are already behind. Secure Boot is a Windows subsystem that verifies that each driver…...
Forward launches Predict to take the guesswork out of network changes
6+ hour, 28+ min ago (573+ words) Forward Predict runs proposed changes against the company's network digital twin, modeling the impact across routing protocols, ACLs, firewalls and NAT configurations at production scale before anything touches the live network. Forward's network digital twin has historically operated on the…...
Selector targets the network visibility gap in multi-cloud infrastructure
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (716+ words) Enterprises aren't just moving applications to the cloud. They're moving the network itself. An increasing number of organizations are shutting down data centers and migrating networking infrastructure directly into the cloud. BGP sessions, virtual firewalls, transit gateways, and VPN terminations…...
AI reshapes cybersecurity workforce priorities as IT teams brace for new risks
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (476+ words) Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity operations, workforce development, and enterprise risk management, according to separate research reports from Hack The Box and ISC2, which found that organizations are embracing AI security tools while they are also preparing for new AI-enabled threats....
AI, cybersecurity skills top IT pay premiums
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (584+ words) Denise Dubie is a senior editor at Network World with nearly 30 years of experience writing about the tech industry. Her coverage areas include AIOps, cybersecurity, networking careers, network management, observability, SASE, SD-WAN, and how AI transforms enterprise IT. A seasoned…...
How AI is transforming network incident response (and where it still falls short)
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (508+ words) If you've sat through any vendor pitch in the last year, you've heard the promise. AI will detect the anomaly, correlate the signals, identify the root cause, maybe even remediate it. The autonomous network operations center is just around the…...
Net Ops teams look to AI to automate Day 2 operations
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (388+ words) With network operations centers (NOC) and network engineering teams understaffed, many organizations want to automate Day 2 operations "monitoring, troubleshooting, change management " as much as possible." Of course, there are business drivers for automation, too. Network teams want to accelerate mean…...
Five takeaways from Cisco's blowout quarter and what it means to customers
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (17+ words) Cisco's momentum has implications for enterprises with plans to refresh campus networks and boost their AI readiness....
Cisco to cut nearly 4, 000 jobs despite strong growth in AI, enterprise networking
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (349+ words) Despite reporting positive financial news " including record third-quarter revenue of$15. 8 billion, a 12% year-over-year increase " Cisco said it will eliminate almost 4, 000 jobs. "We are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than…...
Cisco open-sources agentic AI security spec
1+ week, 1+ day ago (254+ words) Cisco has turned over an internally developed specification for agentic AI security evaluation to the Git Hub open-source community. The Foundry Security Spec is meant to be used with Git Hub's spec-kit, which is an industry-wide set of development workflows…...