Banking professionals from across 13 of the leading banks in the country completed courses under the training program developed by Cisco Networking Academy.
The Cisco Konektado Strategic Emergency Response Vehicle (SERV) was able to provide Internet accessibility to the typhoon victims in Bohol and Cebu by aggregating existing cellular signals through a satellite.
Worries over cybersecurity threats are growing in the small and medium-sized business spheres in the Philippines over the outcomes of cyber incidents, a majority of which are losing customer information to malicious actors. This trend is directly affecting the decision making of SMB players towards strategic measures to improve overall cybersecurity posture.
Cisco Philippines managing director Karrie Ilagan noted that work-from-home arrangements do have challenges including connectivity, an ever-growing demand for broadband, and video-call “fatigue” that many customers and partners have experienced.
As a result, cybersecurity now tops corporate priorities, with 93% of organizations in the Philippines saying that cybersecurity is extremely important or more important than before the pandemic.
Cisco has launched Ugnayan 2030, a collaboration framework with government leaders, industry, and academia aimed at building greater digital resilience by unlocking the value of digitization in the Philippines.
The new devices from Webex are designed to promote functionality without sacrificing simplicity. In fact, in the case of the Webex Desk Camera, users can now mute and unmute their microphones with a gesture - a function that the company claims is an industry first.
The country’s GDP by 2024 stands to gain between $26 to $28 billion with the digitalization of Filipino small and medium enterprises, according to the 2020 Asia Pacific SMB Digital Maturity study commissioned by networking hardware maker Cisco.
