After completing a degree in political philosophy, Diana Todea pivoted to a role in IT customer service. While it seems like a big leap, it made sense for her. She comes from a family of engineers. “Asking questions is a part of who I am,” she says. “I’m an engineer at heart, I like seeing how things are constructed.”Diana started her tech career in her home country of Romania … [Read more...] about Women in tech: Diana Todea shares her career journey to becoming a site reliability engineer
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Observability vs. APM: What to Know on Your Monitoring Journey
In the ever-evolving landscape of software development and IT operations, monitoring tools play a pivotal role in ensuring the performance, reliability, and availability of your applications. Two key disciplines in this domain are observability and Application Performance Management (APM). This post will help you understand the nuances between observability and APM, exploring … [Read more...] about Observability vs. APM: What to Know on Your Monitoring Journey
Streamlining Observability: The Journey Towards Query Language Standardization
One of the most captivating discussions I had at KubeCon Europe 2023 in Amsterdam was about standardization of a query language for observability. This query language standard aims to provide a unified way of querying observability data across logs, metrics, traces, and other relevant signals. The conversation shed light on the pressing need for a standardized approach to … [Read more...] about Streamlining Observability: The Journey Towards Query Language Standardization
When It Comes to M&A, Security Is a Journey
Shiva Persaud is the director of security engineering for Cisco. His team is responsible for the Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL), a set of practices based on a “secure-by-design” philosophy developed to ensure that security and compliance are top-of-mind in every step of a solution’s lifecycle. This blog is the third in a series focused on M&A cybersecurity, … [Read more...] about When It Comes to M&A, Security Is a Journey
Cisco Partner Story: Security Resilience is a Journey, Not a Destination
Cybersecurity professionals have dedicated their careers to protecting organizations and building resilience. And today, that job is tougher than ever. When we think of security resilience, is it just another buzzword to describe a reactive approach to security? I had the opportunity to speak with Mark Lynd, Head of Digital Business at NETSYNC and ranked as one of the Top 10 … [Read more...] about Cisco Partner Story: Security Resilience is a Journey, Not a Destination
How Cybersecurity Found Me: My Career Journey
Fresh out of college at Emory University (go Eagles!), I landed a strategy consulting role with a top firm and headed to Washington, DC. The work was challenging and provided an amazing view into the inner workings of some amazing clients across a broad range of markets. While I enjoyed the job, I wanted more. I wanted to be closer to the action and execution, but I needed to … [Read more...] about How Cybersecurity Found Me: My Career Journey
Cisco’s Vision for SASE and a Brand New Offer to Kickstart Your Journey
This blog was written in collaboration with James Mobley There’s a growing challenge that many organizations face today: How can network and security teams provide consistent, secure access to applications for an increasingly distributed workforce — without taking on more complexity? This drives the need to rethink the traditional network architecture, and the concept of a … [Read more...] about Cisco’s Vision for SASE and a Brand New Offer to Kickstart Your Journey
Barbervisor: Journey developing a snapshot fuzzer with Intel VT-x
Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / Barbervisor: Journey developing a snapshot fuzzer with Intel VT-x One of the ways vulnerability researchers find bugs is with fuzzing. At a high level, fuzzing is the process of generating and mutating random inputs for a given target to crash it. In 2017, I started developing a bare metal hypervisor for the purposes of … [Read more...] about Barbervisor: Journey developing a snapshot fuzzer with Intel VT-x