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Firewall solution providers, Cisco and Fortinet have issued security advisories confirming that vulnerabilities exposed by the mysterious Shadow Brokers do exist and affect their products. Both companies have issued fixes addressing the exploits that were recently made public. According to the report published in ZD Net, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, claims to have stolen a set of hacking tools from a group dubbed the Equation Group, which researchers believe is an elite unit of the US intelligence agency. The Shadow Brokers described the tools as “cyber weapons” used...

Cisco’s managing director of sales for India and SAARC region, Purushottam Kaushik, has reportedly stepped down from the networking major after a stint of seven years. He was earlier responsible for creating and managing a new $2 billion business around Smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), public safety and surveillance and Digital India initiatives. According to the ET report, after parting away from Cisco, Kaushik may join Juniper Networks and take up the responsibility to head the India operations. Juniper’s India and SAARC managing director Amajit Gupta told ET he had...

The Cyber security industry has witnessed consolidation of business with major cyber security companies announcing acquisitions of their rivals this fiscal. Whether it is Symantec’s acquisition of Blue Coat acquisition or Avast Software’s announcement to buy AVG Technologies, it seems that security enterprises are acquiring their direct competitors other small security enterprises to become more powerful in the industry. While this trend is quite visible in the industry, enterprises with different domain expertise are also contemplating to explore the booming cyber security business. Cisco Systems, which is known for its...

Worldwide IT leader Cisco unveiled LaunchPad in order to mentor and empower the innovation eco-system in the country. The LaunchPad is designed to bring together Cisco, their channel partners, developers and their start-up enterprises and jointly look at solving issues to addressing new markets, and build on digital businesses. Mentorship will come from Cisco’s finest own talent who will be connecting the start-up talent with potential investors and guide them on creation of solutions and scaling of businesses. The LaunchPad will also bring other enablers like certified service providers and...

Freshdesk, a leading cloud-based customer engagement software provider, has announced the launch of Freshsales, a customer relationship management (CRM) solution and sales system designed for corporate sales team.These sales teams require multiple integrated systems to do their jobs effectively: lead, deal, and account management; email and phone integration; user behavior tracking; lead scoring; a visual sales pipeline; and reporting. Freshsales is the only CRM on the market to offer all of these key capabilities with the ease of use that Freshdesk customers have come to expect. The San Francisco and...