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Cisco Adds Real-Time Translation to Webex Video Meetings
Audio is automatically translated into text for each participant using a choice of over 100 different languages.
Cisco Webex Business Review
Cisco has done considerable work on Webex Business since our last review, both around ease of use and standout new meeting features as well as integrations and performance. Just be prepared to pay for it.
Zoom vs. Webex: The Best Videoconferencing Apps Face Off on Features
If you're working from home and trying to choose videoconferencing software to stay connected, Zoom Meetings and Cisco Webex are among the top choices. We've tested both and here's how they stack up.
Cisco Secures Injunction Against Chinese Counterfeiters
The injunction means all major online retailers—including Amazon and eBay—can no longer sell Cisco-branded products offered by four Chinese companies.
Cisco Webex Contact Center Adds AI and Voice Capabilities
Cisco says its recent acquisition of Accompany and Voicea strengthens its WebEx contact center portfolio with artificial intelligence and natural language speech transcription, with customer analytics technology soon to come from its upcoming CloudCherry acquisition.
How Intelligent Voice Agents Can Replace Costly Contact Centers
IT organizations and small to midsize businesses (SMBs) on the Cisco Unified Contact Center platform can now use Inference Studio to create and customize cloud-based chatbots and intelligent voice agents (IVAs) to serve as viable options to expensive contact center solutions.
Cisco Webex Gains Voice Assistant Tech Through Voicea Acquisition
Voicea's smart meeting and conferencing assistant "EVA" will soon be a part of Cisco's Webex offerings, bringing real-time voice transcription and voice analytics to your meetings.
Cisco Pays $8.6M to Settle Claims it Sold Flawed Software to the US
Cisco's product was designed for use in airports, government buildings, and military bases, among others. But the software was allegedly rife with security vulnerabilities a hacker could exploit to steal data and access government networks.
Save 52 Percent on Cisco Dual WAN Router With Built-In VPN Support
Get it on Amazon for just $128 — a 52 percent discount from its original retail price of $265.99.
Why Small Businesses Need to Adopt Enterprise-Grade IT
Your small business may not be a Fortune 500 corporation, but that doesn't mean you can afford to settle for substandard IT practices or equipment. In honor of National Small Business Week, we explain four areas in which you can act like a big business.
Wi-Fi 6 May Be Faster, But It's Also More Challenging for IT
Wi-Fi 6 is on its way, promising higher wireless speeds, reduced latency, and better IoT support. But while all that is good, there's also a significant amount of work IT will need to do in order to prepare.
Hackers Are Messing With the 'Web's Phone Book' For Espionage
The suspected government-backed hackers have been infiltrating companies that run the Domain Name System, including internet service providers and web-hosting organizations, allowing them to corrupt the "phone book of the internet," security researchers warn.
Business Choice Awards 2019: Routers and Servers
The short list of high-end, preferred networking products for the workplace remains relatively stable, as do the favorites at the top.
Get Ready: Voice Assistants Are Coming to Your Conference Room
Voice assistants can improve productivity and reduce distraction during meetings by taking over rote tasks such as transcribing conversations, taking notes, and even setting tasks in your project management tools.
Cookie Encryption Bug Hits Enterprise VPN Apps
Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Pulse Secure stored cookie data in non-encrypted memory and log files within a computer, CERT says. Two of the three have rolled out patches.
College Kids Are Using Campus Electricity to Mine Crypto
College campuses are the second biggest miners of virtual currencies behind the energy and utilities sector, according to security researchers at Cisco.
Is the DMZ Dead? Not Quite
A demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a type of network segmentation that used to be mandatory for any organization connected to the internet. But the cloud has made a DMZ unnecessary for the majority of IT environments and here's why.
Enterprise VPNs Can Revolutionize How Your Users Connect
VPNs are good for more than protecting your data in transit and hiding your location. Enterprise VPN technology can radically increase security, your overall network's reliability, and even your bandwidth.
Beef Up Security and Performance With Network Segmentation
Network segmentation is all about dividing your existing network into smaller pieces as this can have significant security and performance benefits. Here's how to implement it in five basic steps.
In Enterprise Cybersecurity, There Are No Clear Leaders
A look across the last six years of vendor market share indicates that security appliance vendors are all in the fight.
