In a security alert published today, Cisco has advised owners of Nexus switches to disable a feature called PowerOn Auto Provisioning (POAP) for security reasons. POAP is currently enabled by default ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. A well-configured internet firewall will ...

Cisco has warned customers with Nexus switches running its NX-OS software to install updates to address a serious flaw that allows a remote attacker to bypass network access controls and route ...

Thanks to AMD's Data Processing Unit, two new Cisco switches offer security functions in the data center that would otherwise be performed by a firewall. At its in-house trade fair Cisco Live EMEA, ...