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Inside Buffalo’s Highmark Stadium: How the Bills and Cisco built one network to run an entire venue, and what IT leaders can learn from it

The Buffalo Bills eliminated fragmented legacy systems, streamlined IT operations, and transformed the game-day fan experience at Highmark Stadium.

Sep 23, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Network Security Networking

9 career-boosting Wi-Fi certifications

There are two new wireless certifications from Cisco in our roundup of vendor-neutral and vendor-specific wireless networking certifications.

Sep 22, 2026 12 mins

Certifications Network Security Wi-Fi

Cisco patches max-severity ISE flaw, the second critical zero-day this week

Under active exploitation, the 10.0 Identity Services Engine vulnerability can give attackers root privileges without authentication.

Sep 17, 2026 3 mins

Network Security Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day gives attackers root access

‘A root-level, unauthenticated RCE in an email gateway is about as good a foothold as an attacker gets.’

Sep 15, 2026 3 mins

Communications Security Email Security Network Security

Highlights from Splunk .conf26 and what the news means to network engineers

Newly announced Network Intelligence App for Splunk Observability brings Cisco network topology, device health, and event data into Splunk so engineers can trace an alert to an affected device without leaving the platform.

Sep 15, 2026 9 mins

Network Management Software Network Security Networking

VMware by Broadcom: Product, service and support news

We've tracked the Broadcom-VMware saga since the deal was announced. Here’s what you need to know about VMware's products, services and support changes since its acquisition by Broadcom.

Sep 14, 2026 23 mins

Edge Computing Network Security Virtualization

MikroTik patches flaws currently being exploited to take over routers

MikroTrick chains together two of six patched vulnerabilities to obtain root privileges on MikroTik devices with SSH exposed to the internet, of which they are more than 120,000.

Sep 9, 2026 4 mins

Network Security Security Vulnerabilities

Cisco bundles fixes for multiple vulnerabilities, some critical, into one patch

The patch addresses two critical vulnerabilities and five other high-severity bugs impact Cisco’s carrier-grade routing OS, with potential paths to RCE and unauthorized access.

Sep 8, 2026 6 mins

Network Security Networking Vulnerabilities

BackBox brings AI to network automation but keeps humans in control

BackBox launches Kilter AI to apply artificial intelligence to network automation without relinquishing control, treating AI as an advisor rather than a decision-maker.

Sep 8, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Network Monitoring Network Security

SonicWall reports two major security holes under active exploit

The company said there are no defensive workarounds for the flaws that include one enabling unauthenticated remote attacks; it has issued patches.

Sep 2, 2026 5 mins

Network Appliances Network Security Networking Devices