Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

When your mcp client talks to a server—maybe a retail bot checking inventory levels—they usually do a "handshake" to agree on a secret key. If you use ML-KEM, that handshake stays safe even if a ...

AI and cybersecurity have been inextricably linked for many years. The good guys use AI to analyze incoming data packets and help block malicious activity while the bad guys use AI to find and create ...

IPsec is a suite of protocols that are used to secure internet communications—in fact, the name itself is an abbreviation for Internet Protocol Security. IPsec was first codified in the ’90s, spurred ...

I had a great time meeting with a variety of customers at Cisco Live in Orlando back in June. We covered a lot of different topics around data center security. One specific item that came up more than ...

Layers 7 through 4 are geared more to the application than the lower layers, which are designed to move packets from one place to another no matter what they contain. This top layer defines the ...

The humble firewall has come a long way since the packet-filtering days of yore. The first firewalls were developed by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) back in the late 1980s. These early ...