Tags PROVISIONING

5 Business Benefits of Automated Provisioning

Posted by Mark Lindsey

Onboarding and offboarding manually can be slow and error-prone. New hires may wait days before gaining system access, and employees who switch roles can face similar delays in accessing newly relevant resources. Plus, departing staff may retain system credentials before anyone on your IT staff notices, which can put your entire network at risk.  Automated provisioning, or auto provisioning,...

Cisco Crowdsources Critical Announcements: SSL Certificate Changes on SPA-500 phones

Posted by Mark Lindsey

The Cisco Small Business SPA-500 series phones (such as the SPA-502G, SPA-508G) include a Cisco-signed SSL certificate. Until very recently, all of the Cisco SPA-500-series phones shipped were signed by a Sipura certificate. Sipura was the Korean company that was bought by Linksys before Linksys was bought by Cisco. Sometime after August 2013, Cisco Small Business started shipping phones sig...