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In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, companies are increasingly adopting remote work policies and expanding their use of cloud services. As the technology world expands its operations into the cloud, threat actors have adapted their tactics accordingly. With this shift comes the need for stronger, more efficient security solutions that can safeguard users, regardless of where they are located. Cisco, a leader in network and security solutions, has recognized this trend and evolved its offerings to provide enhanced security features for remote connectivity.

If you’re a technology leader at an enterprise, you’re under pressure to develop and deploy a secure IT infrastructure that supports and scales to a hybrid workforce. And you need to do it fast. Otherwise, your organization’s recovery from the economic conditions of the pandemic could stall. As your team continually battles relentless cyber-attacks, you could also see productivity plummet as a result, affecting the company’s revenue.

In late October of 2016, a domain name service (DNS), host and Internet management company for 80+ major websites experienced several bouts of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by botnets (short for “robot network”). The end devices were being controlled by a Control Server (CNC Server) not unlike the Droid Control Ships controlling the Droid Armies in Star Wars. The FBI has stated that they do not have any confirmation of a specific group or groups claiming responsibility in the hacker community, but they believe the machines were infected with a variation of the Mirai malware.