borderless

We continue our journey down the path of expatriation, finding opportunities outside of your native land and looking at those who have done it. In this episode, Myles talks with his friend James Guzman from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on his journey, why he chose to leave the USA in search of his future outside and what he discovered almost 10 years later. Enjoy!

• The Tailgating Security Podcast
• Illumio Adaptive Security Platform
• Adaptive User Security

With energy efficiency and sustainability mandates being issued by government officials and corporation boards, IT vendors have focused engineering resources to deliver products with increased feature sets that consume less energy.  But one company in particular has taken its core competency and found a way to not only make its own business more energy efficient but everything it touches too.  That company is Cisco Systems. Laura Finkelstein, Senior Director of Switching Marketing at Cisco Systems is my guest as we discuss Cisco’s Borderless Green service and the value it delivers to both IT business and government leaders.

IT leaders are not comfortable with mobile computing security.  And they do have a lot to be concerned about as securing a plethora of different devices accessing both corporate and SaaS applications from a vast array of locations and network access methods is a challenge.  Traditional VPN methods are too cumbersome for users and don’t factor the huge growth in SaaS application use.  A new model for securing remote and mobile access is needed and Cisco has delivered one.  Cisco just launched AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client that offers a simple use model for mobile workers that leverages Cisco’s ASA, IronPort Web Security Appliance, ScanSafe, and SIO to wrap a corporate perimeter around its mobile workforce.  Kevin Kennedy, Product Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems discusses a new approach to securing mobile computing.  

How we do IT is fundamentally changing. Applications are increasingly being accessed from mobile devices while cloud computing offers a new approach to application delivery. Case in point, the iPhone adoption rate is 8 times faster then AOL was! As a result corporate application portfolios are shifting in their mix of total to partial to no IT manager control. IT leaders are finding that the largest application growth in their corporation is coming from outside of their traditional perimeter/firewall with no control knobs. In essence applications and networks are becoming borderless and as a result a new flexible security model is needed to reestablish boundaries. To address this industry concern, I talk with Fred Kost Director Security Solutions for Cisco Systems about a new approach to securing networks without borders.