Tag: IT Networks

April 10, 2024

Information technology teams at institutions of higher learning face unique network challenges based on lean budgets and lengthy evaluation and approval processes to upgrade any hardware or software components. Yet IT managers are still responsible for securing and managing sensitive […]

July 17, 2023

Cisco announced a containerized firewall package for its venerable Catalyst switch family that’s designed to help enterprise customers with mixed IT and OT systems more easily segment network resources and save money by consolidating network and security deployments. Specifically, Cisco […]

April 16, 2019

There are plenty of historic and technological reasons why utilities’ industrial networks have been disconnected from their enterprise IT networks. As utilities continue to plan for and invest in new infrastructure for the coming decades, they have a critical opportunity […]

December 7, 2018

We are already entering into the era of 5G. It will enable a host of new applications for enterprises and consumers, including augmented reality, virtual reality, IoT, autonomous vehicles, enhanced mobile broadband and many more. Soon, there will be an […]

November 27, 2018

It’s Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, but I think we can all agree that the topic at hand is, uh, more of a long-term necessity. About 85 percent of the nation’s critical infrastructures are privately owned and operated, as […]

November 5, 2018

As with traditional IT networks, Operational Technology (OT) networks are undergoing a digital transformation process of their own. The goal is to improve productivity, efficiency, up-time, and flexibility through better monitoring. To do this, online sensors and connected systems are […]

April 10, 2018

Virtualization of mobile networks must first occur in operators’ IT Networks and support processes before it can be made widely available to customers as either a reformulation of current service offerings or new horizontal and vertical market offerings. Gating factors […]