Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach US$3.8 trillion in 2021, an increase of 4% from 2020, according to research firm Gartner, but still shy of pre-pandemic levels.
Cisco describes the new SecureX service as offering an open, cloud-native system that will let customers detect and remediate threats detected across Cisco and third-party products from a single interface.
Cisco took its integration with AWS to a new level by saying it would integrate its SD-WAN, network services and security with the cloud giant’s just-released Outposts hybrid cloud environment.
Cisco this week warned its IOS and IOS XE customers of 13 vulnerabilities in the operating system software they should patch as soon as possible.
Cisco is separating the operating system and applications from the underlying hardware, and is making it possible to host apps on certain switches and routers.
