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end Segment Routing enabled IP network, simplification, collapsing redundant said Afizulazha Abdullah, Chief Operations
one of the very first deployments in the layers, removing legacy technologies and Officer (Technology) of Celcom Axiata
country, Cisco provides a unified, policy- overlapping functionalities, resulting into Berhad. “Together with Celcom, we have
aware network architecture with seamless Capex efficiencies. “We at Celcom continue delivered a 5G-ready transport network
integration between the transport and the to strive to be the most reliable and most with a cross-domain orchestrator for IP
data center domains. Segment Routing trusted network service provider for all and Optical layer that is designed to exceed
also provides the network with the most Malaysians, with the widest coverage and all consumer and business customer
cost-effective, end-to-end network slicing consistent performance. With over 14 needs,” said Sanjay Kaul, President, Asia-
and low latency capabilities, which also million users on our network and the Pacific and Japan, Cisco Service Provider
future proofs Celcom’s network. With rapid growth in data traffic, we are always Business. “Our focus is to ensure that
a central SDN Controller as Network innovating our services with the latest Celcom has a strong foundation from
Orchestrator for IP and Optical multiple technology. Our continuous collaboration which to grow revenues, reduce costs and
domains, enabling automated operations, with Cisco is another innovative milestone mitigate risk.”
Celcom is well-positioned to optimize that enables us to deliver enhanced digital
operational investments with this network and network services to our customers,"

Cisco Reveals Top Cybersecurity Threats Trends in Q2 2022:

Cisco Talos, one of the world’s largest
private threat intelligence teams released
its latest quarterly report that examines
incident response trends and global cyber
threats. According to the report, during
April, May and June 2022, commodity
malware outpaced ransomware for the first
time in more than a year, comprising 20
percent of the threats observed, followed
by ransomware, phishing, business
email compromise (BEC) and advanced
persistent threats. This quarter mainly
saw an increase in commodity malware
threats, widely available for purchase or
download. This type of malware is typically
not customized and is used by a variety
of actors to deliver additional threats in
various stages of their operation and/or to
deliver additional threats. Cisco Talos also
observed ongoing Qakbot activity, which healthcare sectors. Other targeted verticals and businesses of all sizes and across
leverages thread hijacking, allowing threat include financial services, local government, industries in our region, addressing the
actors to use compromised email accounts food services, retail, automotive, cyber security challenges they are facing,
to insert malicious replies into the middle information technology, production and and helping them increase their security
of existing email conversations. Compared manufacturing. Meanwhile, the United resilience.” In order to protect from
to previous years, ransomware made up a States continues to be the top targeted these threats, Cisco highly recommends
smaller portion, comprising 15 percent of country followed by Europe, Asia, North organizations to implement multi-factor
all threats, compared with 25 percent last America and Middle East. Commenting authentication (MFA), such as Cisco Duo,
quarter. The drop is attributed to various on the report’s findings, Fady Younes, on all critical services. Endpoint detection
factors including the closure of several Cybersecurity Director, EMEA Service and response solutions like Cisco Secure
ransomware groups, whether it be of their Providers and MEA said: “Organizations Endpoint are also key to detecting malicious
own volition or the actions of global law across countries of the Middle East and activity across machines and networks.
enforcement agencies and governments. Africa hold a huge amount of sensitive Cisco Secure Firewall can help protect
Targeted Industries: data that is prone to cyber threats and from commodity trojans and malware such
The top-targeted industry continues to be needs to be secured. With cyberattacks as Qakbot, , while Cisco Secure Email and
telecommunications, following a trend becoming more sophisticated, the demand Secure Malware Analytics can help protect
where it was among the top targeted sectors for comprehensive cybersecurity solutions users from from targeted phishing emails
in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022, closely followed is increasing.” He added: “Cisco is uniquely and business email compromise, which
by organizations in the education and positioned to support governments adversaries commonly used this quarter.

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