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Surveys and studies often point to other job factors, such as opportunity for learning and career growth, sense of satisfaction, organizational culture, and relationships with fellow team members and managers, as more important to happiness than salary. Nonetheless, while money doesn’t bring happiness, it doesn’t necessarily hurt either! The Robert Half Technology Salary Guide indicates that technology professionals remain in high demand as companies worry not just about recruiting talent but retaining it, and this reality should keep IT salaries competitive...........READ MORE

Use this page as a starting point for exploring the exam topic lists in which you are interested.......READ MORE

The widely respected IT certification programs available through Cisco Career Certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to networking professionals, to their managers, and to the organizations that employ them. Choose a career path below that meets your goals for professional and financial rewards.......READ MORE

The Global State of Information Security 2016, published recently by PWC*, showed 3 things:

1. CIOs and CEOs are seeing an increased security threat across all markets and segments.
2. The average financial loss due to security incidents in 2015 was $2.5M!
3. To cope with this risk and financial liability, security budgets have increased by 24% in 2015.........READ MORE

“The Cisco FirePOWER 8120 with NGIPS and Advanced Malware Protection received a breach detection rating of 100.0%. The FirePOWER 8120 proved effective against all evasion techniques tested. The solution also passed all stability and reliability tests.”..............READ MORE

Using Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 6500 Series switches along with Cisco Aironet 700 and 1600 Series access points, MKUH was able to redesign and deploy an entirely new network. And with Cisco Identity Service Engine making sure that devices are safe and able to securely connect to the network, the hospital had the security that that they needed......READ MORE

When most clients purchased Meraki products last year, they didn’t get many of the features you have today, Advanced Malware Protection (AMP), iWAN, Port Isolation, templates, NetFlow, these are not small features – these are huge – and with most vendors you would be forced into a costly upgrade – upgrade, click enable on feature – done. That is one hell of a way to deliver value....READ MORE

In the future, I would expect to see the engineering world bifurcate even more strongly between those who know a particular vendor product, and those who know the technology. Which will be better paid, or more in demand, is hard to judge, but it’s likely to be those who know the technology..........READ MORE

My recommendation is to capture syslog, then pull, say, a month or two’s worth, run the free Python scripts that are out there to summarize, and look for “gee, I wish I’d known that” items.........READ MORE

Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) have a history of utilizing proprietary hardware and protocols that are hard to integrate with network security. They may be segregated from industrial IP networks, but they’re still at risk because they’re often set up as simple, open-network machine islands, with limited or no security........READ MORE

We also had multiple sites in play across a L3 WAN, so simple VLAN segregation would not work. (yes yes, I know there are other ways to do it, but we are keeping it simple here) Meraki MR has the ability to L3 or VPN tunnel traffic back to an MX – but be aware of the following warning and important design considerations....,..READ MORE

In the words of one wise sage at MWC: “A network with high bandwidth but no security is like a two-legged stool!” People must be assured that the data they put over the network is secure. Ditto for the apps they use to do it. The networks have to offer security to deliver the revenue we all expect and make the investment worthwhile.......READ MORE

It was all scripted quite fast as we developed visuals within just a few days. Not my preferred way to work but I was pleased with the balance of rushing it and maintaining a low budget..........READ MORE

Whilst holding down the Mode button power up the switch ensuring the mode button stays depressed.  You need to wait between 30-40 seconds or if watching the console until the text USB Console INIT appears, let go of the mode button when you see this and it will then drop you into the switch.......READ MORE

Minnesota’s vRad, a leading national teleradiology service and telemedicine company, wants to take the impersonality out of test results. To do so, they tasked Cisco with creating a new wired and wireless network where video traffic is prioritized and carried with great accuracy. This way when a patient is given test results—even if the doctor is remote—he or she is able to communicate directly with the expert who made the diagnosis........READ MORE

Facebook just announced that it’s paying $50 million to media companies for live video content. The social media giant has partnered with celebrities, media companies, and other partners for breaking news, live programming, and more..............READ MORE

The main objectives of public-safety organizations are to keep citizens, communities, and public spaces safe; with faster response, improved operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The challenges in public safety and emergency response are becoming more complex, and expectations are rising higher........READ MORE

In short, last week's post made this point: "The network that was once manual, rigid, and device-centric is giving way to a digital-ready network that is automated, flexible, and extends programmability beyond the data center and into all segments of the network. Hardware is moving more and more to software, and individual endpoint device management is shifting to a policy-based level of automation.".......READ MORE

A number of enhancements have been introduced into the Spanning Tree Protocol to make it flexible for today’s increasingly complex and demanding networks. Using enhanced STP features like BPDUGuard helps protect the network from rogue switches and avoid unwanted STP topology changes, however, it is important to understand the correct usage of BPDUGuard to ensure it’s correctly configured and placed in the STP topology........READ MORE

Offering true zero-touch provisioning, Meraki switches can be pre-staged and configured entirely from a web browser. The Meraki management experience accelerates and simplifies the work of the network engineer..............READ MORE