Security was the elephant in the room at Cisco Live 2018 — just like at pretty much every other IT event. Cisco used the event, held in Orlando, Fla., earlier this summer, to bring together customers and partners to discuss technology trends and innovations such as software-defined networking and digital transformation. But security is an…

With mass store closures by Sears, Toys “R” Us and other major brands, conventional wisdom says brick-and-mortar retail has one foot in the grave. Wrong. Online sales make up just nine percent of all retail sales, according to a new Deloitte study. The study also found that brick-and-mortar sales are actually growing — to the…

If you don’t talk to your business units about the Internet of Things, who will? IT history shows why that’s not a glib question. Over the past decade, many enterprises suffered embarrassing security breaches and hefty noncompliance fines because their business units signed up for a cloud service without IT’s blessing or even knowledge. Why?…

To catch a casino’s big fish, cybercriminals first targeted its little ones. After attackers found a Linux box monitoring an aquarium’s temperature and other conditions, they used it as a back door to the casino’s network, where they were able to nab and extract its database of high-roller customers. This hack highlights how the Internet…

State and local governments host vast amounts of sensitive data — nothing top secret, but information that contains the intimate details of their citizens’ lives: children’s school records, driving records, voter registration information, contacts with police and paramedics, the list goes on. As more communities lean on the internet and the cloud to create efficiencies…

What do Black Friday, PlayStation 5 and the newest iPhone have in common? They’re examples of events that drive a ton of traffic into stores — and onto the back-end IT systems of retailers. That flood of data can be a big problem or a big opportunity, depending on what you do before those events…