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crucial in keeping their business running they have come to expect from Meraki.” IoT, Cisco. “With this announcement, Cisco
smoothly,” said George Bentinck, Director “Connecting sensors to the network and is taking another step forward to provide
of Product Management, Cisco Meraki. gaining access to multiple dashboards customers and partners with scalable,
“Meraki MT provides real-time awareness and its correlated data has become an simple solutions that provide end-to-end
and monitoring into IT environments increasingly challenging requirement at visibility and automation.”
via a single cloud dashboard, providing scale within today’s OT environments,”
customers with the signature simplicity said Vikas Butaney, General Manager of

Cisco Buys Devop and Kubernetes Security Vendor Portshift

Cisco is boosting its security solutions of security concerns while 90% of the "They bring cloud native application
with a deal to buy Israeli startup respondents have experienced a security security capabilities and expertise for
PortShift. While Cisco didn't announce incident. Misconfiguratons are generally containers and service meshes for
the financial terms of the deal, which is the top culprit for security issues related to Kubernetes environments to Cisco, which
slated to close in the first half of Cisco's containers while monitoring applications will allow us to move toward the delivery
fiscal 2021, Globes reported that Cisco is is also an issue. With PortShift in hand, of security for all phases of the application
paying around $100 million for PortShift. Cisco will be able to address a multitude of development lifecycle.”They bring cloud
According to Crunchbase, PortShift was container and Kubernetes security issues. native application security capabilities
founded two years ago by CEO Ran Ilany "Today, the application security space and expertise for containers and service
and CTO Zohar Kaufman. Ilany was the is highly fragmented with many vendors meshes for Kubernetes environments to
former Head of the Security Infrastructure addressing only part of the problem. The Cisco, which will allow us to move toward
Division at Check Point Technologies while PortShift team is building capabilities that the delivery of security for all phases of
Kaufman previously co-founded CTERA span a large portion of the lifecycle of the the application development lifecycle."
Networks, according to their LinkedIn bios. cloud-native application," said Cisco's Liz Centoni said once the deal closes, the
PortShift has raised $5.3 million in seed Centoni, Senior Vice President for Strategy, PortShift team will join Cisco's ET&I Group.
funding from Team8, which is an incubator Emerging Technologies and Incubation.
and backer for security startups in Israeli.
As one of the corporate backers of Team8,
along with Wal-Mart and Microsoft,
Cisco was able to get an early look at
PortShift's Kubernetes-native security
platform. Using Kubernetes, which is the
de facto standard for containers, PortShift
enables DevOps, security and operations
teams to continuously secure the entire
containerized applications lifecycle, from
code to runtime. Despite the proliferation of
containers and Kubernetes, organizations
are still struggling with security. According
to recent report by Kubernetes security
vendor StackRox, nearly half (44%) of
respondents have delayed rolling out
applications into production because

Cisco Helps To Bridge the Digital Divide in the United States

Delivering on its commitment to power nearly 30 million Americans still do not potential to lift 500 million people out of
an inclusive future where everyone has have high speed internet access. Being able poverty globally. The report also asserts
access to the internet, Cisco unveiled its to connect to high speed internet opens that internet usage and lower levels of
network solutions for rural broadband many doors, and more opportunities are inequality often have a close correlation,
designed to help U.S. service providers created through education, skill sharing, making digital communications
extend and improve the cost-efficiency of access to better healthcare, and so much infrastructure essential to attain equality.
their networks for infrastructure buildouts more. Cisco’s 2020 Inclusive Future Report Cisco has announced plans with Mural Net
in rural areas. According to the U.S. Federal estimates that providing internet access to launch a Sustainable Tribal Networks
Communications Commission (FCC), to unconnected parts of the world has the program to provide consistent internet

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