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World Wide Technology Receives NetApp North America Partner Awards for FY'25
Together, NetApp and WWT continue to push the boundaries of technology, ensuring our clients are equipped to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Forbes' list of America's Best Employers For Tech Workers 2025
To create this second-annual list, Forbes partnered with Statista and surveyed more than 25,000 tech workers in the US employed at companies across all sectors.
From the Homeland to the Battlefield: Transitioning the National Guard's MFK into a Joint Force Capability
The Mobile Field Kit is a suite of secure and interoperable software applications, platforms and architecture.
AI Won't Save You: Easterly, Joyce and CISOs on the Cybersecurity Reality No One Wants to Hear
At a time when AI feels like oxygen — powering every tool, every conversation, every strategy — security leaders at the forefront are sounding the alarm: it won't fix the fundamentals. In this episode, top voices from government, industry and the next generation of cyber talent share unfiltered perspectives on AI-augmented threats, the velocity of attacks and what it really takes to defend in 2025 and beyond. Interviews include former CISA Director Jen Easterly, former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce and a bevy of cyber experts from inside and out of WWT.
Featured News
Forbes' list of America's Best Employers For Tech Workers 2025
To create this second-annual list, Forbes partnered with Statista and surveyed more than 25,000 tech workers in the US employed at companies across all sectors.
From AI to cybersecurity, WWT focused on enabling customers
"Our partner relationships and our alliances are critical. We can't do what we do without those relationships and working together with our customers," commented Jason Brouwers, Vice President, Head of Asia Pacific, Japan and China.
Forbes' America's Best-In-State Employers 2025
To create this seventh annual list, Forbes partnered with Statista to survey more than 160,000 employees who work for a company of at least 500 people within the United States.
PEOPLE's 100 Companies That Care in 2025
The businesses on PEOPLE's annual list provide resources to their communities and encourage employees to make a difference.
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Empowering Jack in the Box Franchisees with Real-time Data Insights
Learn how WWT partnered with Jack in the Box franchisees to modernize its point-of-sale system and unlock real-time operational insights.
AWS AI Lab Nova Sonic and Bedrock
This lab deploys a real-time speech-to-speech support agent for fictional company AnyTelco, where a customer calls in for help. It uses Amazon Nova Sonic in Amazon Bedrock for natural conversation, with S3/CloudFront and Cognito for frontend/auth. A backend on ECS/NLB streams audio and invokes MCP tools (e.g., DynamoDB customer profiles, Bedrock knowledge bases). All infrastructure is provisioned via AWS CDK.
Clayco Case Study - Meeting Platforms Consolidation
This video highlights how WWT helped Clayco reimagine the workplace to build a culture of collaboration.
Detecting Identity Attacks with CrowdStrike ITDR
Simulates Kerberoasting and Pass-the-Hash attacks on Active Directory. Learners use CrowdStrike ITDR to detect identity-based threats, validate network activity with Security Onion, and confirm automated containment with Falcon SOAR. Covers T1003.001, T1558.003, and T1550.002.
Laura McLaughlin - "If I Can Help Somebody"
Laura McLaughlin - "If I Can Help Somebody"
Prayer Call, September 10, 2025 - with Laura McLaughlin and Pastor Deb LeMoine
Prayer Call, September 10, 2025 - with Laura McLaughlin and Pastor Deb LeMoine
Partner POV | Varonis Acquires SlashNext, AI-Native Email Security
Varonis acquires SlashNext, integrating its AI-driven phishing detection into their Data Security Platform. This strategic move enhances threat detection from email to data, offering comprehensive protection against sophisticated social engineering attacks. By connecting email, identity, and data, Varonis aims to revolutionize data security and stop breaches before they begin.
Partner POV | From VPN to SASE: Enabling Hybrid Work Beyond Legacy Access
In a world of hybrid work, traditional VPNs falter under modern demands. Check Point's SASE solution offers secure, high-performance connectivity, enabling seamless remote access and robust threat prevention. Embrace a hybrid security stack that combines cloud and on-premise strengths, ensuring agility and protection wherever your team operates.
Suggested Communities
Army GEMSS Digital Modernization Community
The Army GEMSS EA is your one-stop-shop for Cisco network security, software, design and support services, and training. World Wide Technology is a Cisco Systems Gold Partner, combining our shared expertise to provide the U.S. Army with the latest Cisco products and innovations to serve the American Soldier.
Associate Academy
This Community Page illustrates and highlights key aspects of the various early in career programs the Global Workforce Enablement supports and serves as a centralized location of relevant topics for stakeholders.
Navy Digital Modernization Community
The Global Enterprise Modernization Software and Services (GEMSS) – Navy Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a five-year Navy program designed to maximize the Department of the Navy (DON) investment in the use of existing hardware while supporting the smooth transition of ongoing software maintenance for upgrades and patches to software subscriptions for the Department of Defense infrastructures already in-place at installations worldwide.
University Relations
This community page showcases the University Relations team's initiatives to build strong pipelines of early and emerging talent.
Trending in Security
CrowdStrike CTF: Falcon
CrowdStrike delivers a unified platform approach to modern security so you can protect and build your future. This game incorporates several new features of CrowdStrike, offering a unique opportunity to test your skills against the latest in cybersecurity technology.
Tools utilized within the game:
🔷Crowdstrike Falcon (EDR tool, end point protection and analysis)
🔷Crowdstrike Logscale (History and logging)
🔷CrowdStrike Cloud Security
🔷CrowdStrike Identity Threat Protection
This is a mixed capture the flag style event that will require you and your team to zero in on malicious actors inside of a network, identify vulnerable or outdated services, and brace yourself for a real-time series of cyber attacks. Points will be awarded for finding those exploits, remediating them to the best of your ability and defending Iron Guardian's network.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Palo Alto Next- Generation Firewall Intermediate
Join our intermediate Palo Alto NGFW Intermediate Learning Path to take your skills beyond the fundamentals. This hands-on series dives into advanced features like SSL Decryption, unlocking powerful defenses within your NGFW. See how enabling SSL Decryption allows for enhanced security measures including URL Filtering, Credential Detection, DGA Detection, DNS Sinkholes, and more. Experience how these capabilities maximize the value of your firewall and strengthen your network against evolving threats, all while building confidence through guided labs and real-world scenarios.
Fostering responsible AI: How WashU is building a smarter approach to risk and governance
When AI usage increased across departments, Washington University in St. Louis needed a way to manage it responsibly without slowing innovation. Learn how WWT helped the university assess its AI risk posture, align stakeholders and build a plan for a scalable governance framework.
CrowdStrike CTF : Falcon
CrowdStrike delivers a unified platform approach to modern security so you can protect and build your future. This game incorporates several new features of CrowdStrike, offering a unique opportunity to test your skills against the latest in cybersecurity technology.
Tools utilized within the game:
🔷Crowdstrike Falcon (EDR tool, end point protection and analysis)
🔷Crowdstrike Logscale (History and logging)
🔷CrowdStrike Cloud Security
🔷CrowdStrike Identity Threat Protection
This is a mixed capture the flag style event that will require you and your team to zero in on malicious actors inside of a network, identify vulnerable or outdated services, and brace yourself for a real-time series of cyber attacks. Points will be awarded for finding those exploits, remediating them to the best of your ability and defending Iron Guardian's network.
IF THIS EVENT IS FULL, PLEASE HEAD OVER TO THE OCTOBER EVENT - https://www.wwt.com/event/68b0c1cca140c6b365be5894
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The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
WWT Innovation Vendor Spotlight: Cerby
Welcome to the inaugural WWT Innovation Vendor Spotlight,
a monthly series where WWT features forward-thinking companies and their groundbreaking solutions.
This month, we are highlighting Cerby, which is introducing new and exciting capabilities to the identity and access management (IAM) space.
Please register through your work email as registrants through personal accounts will be removed.
All registrants will receive a $5 Starbucks gift card.
All attendees will receive a $20 Doordash / UberEats gift card.
Gift Card Eligibility
Starbucks and DoorDash gift cards are available for qualified attendees. To receive the DoorDash gift card, participants must attend the full webinar. Cerby and WWT reserves the right to determine eligibility.
Private AI vs. Cloud: How Enterprise Leaders Can Make Smarter Build-or-Buy Decisions
Is your organization ready to own AI or are you better served by leveraging the speed and scale of the cloud? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT High-Performance Architecture Director Jeff Fonke and VP of Advanced Technology Solutions Jeff Wynn break down the toughest question facing IT leaders today: should you build or buy your AI capabilities? From the economics of inference costs to hybrid cloud realities, the two Jeffs share practical strategies on private AI, workload orchestration, data readiness and overcoming the enterprise skills gap.
Enterprise Cloud Transformation: Practical Approaches to Migration and Modernization with WWT & AWS
Success requires more than cloud services—it demands risk mitigation, coordination, and proven methodologies. WWT, an AWS Premier Tier partner, addresses these challenges with its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) for risk-free testing and validation.
Trending in Digital Transformation
Scaling AI Across the Workforce to Empower Every Employee
In 2024, organizations laid the groundwork for AI transformation, and now in 2025, it's time to cement your AI strategy. Join WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis as they share insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace Priorities research report. You'll hear their unique perspectives on treating AI like a new employee and guidance on transitioning from proof-of-concept to organization-wide AI implementation so you can empower every employee.
How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core
There are numerous ways to clone an object in C# .NET Core. This article explores some of the approaches you can use to make a deep copy of an object and the pros and cons of each method.
Enterprise AI Adoption: How Workforce AI Is Changing the Future of Work
Organizations are racing to unlock the potential of workforce AI, but only a few have cracked adoption at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger and workforce AI expert Kait Miller break down why AI pilots stall, how to move from pockets of success to enterprise-wide impact and why employees often trust consumer AI more than company-approved tools. Kait and Joe explore the hidden gap between employee adoption and enterprise rollout, address the build vs. buy conundrum and walk through a real-world case study at WWT that slashed days of work into hours and generated new revenue.
How and Why to Create Safety Within Your Teams
Every person in every organization creates a psychological zone around them. This zone influences how those around them think and feel. Those that can increase feelings of safety can also significantly strengthen their team's performance.
Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Networking Layer 2 Technologies
Join our Virtual Lab Workshop to explore the Cisco Networking Layer 2 Technologies Learning Series. This hands-on session dives into VLANs and trunking for network segmentation, then advances to EtherChannels to enhance link aggregation and redundancy. See how mastering Spanning Tree Protocol prevents loops and boosts performance, building the foundation for resilient, modern networks. Experience practical labs and real-world scenarios that prepare you for real challenges. Engage with experts and get your questions answered during live Q&A. Perfect for aspiring network engineers and IT pros.
6 Steps to Understanding Cisco ACI
When understood, these six concepts will help anyone new to ACI to understand a more detailed technical discussion.
Scott Data Embraces AI Transformation to Offer GPU as a Service
Learn how a data center leader partnered with WWT to validate and execute a strategic vision for providing on-demand access to the advanced high-performance infrastructure required to run today's most demanding AI workloads.
How to Automate Everything Right: WWT's 6 Principles of Automation
Automation plays a critical role in our daily work, touching solutions that span technologies, partners and industries. In our many years of working with clients, we've identified six principles that can help organizations automate everything right.
Top Labs
WWT Agentic Network Assistant
Explore the WWT Agentic Network Assistant, a browser-based AI tool that converts natural language into Cisco CLI commands, executes them across multiple devices, and delivers structured analysis. Using a local LLM, it streamlines troubleshooting, summarizes device health, and compares configs, demonstrating the future of intuitive, AI driven network operations.
Cyber Range - Initiation
Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6.1(3f), emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity.
The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
AI-Powered Manufacturing Assistant
The WWT AI-Powered Predictive Maintenance Assistant uses machine learning and a large language model to predict equipment failures, schedule maintenance, generate instructions, and answer related questions. Through an interactive UI, users explore proactive, data-driven strategies to reduce downtime, extend machine life, and optimize resources, demonstrating AI's transformative potential in manufacturing environments.
Cisco AI Defense Capture the Flag (CTF)
Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
Varonis Foundations Lab
The purpose of this lab is to help you develop proficiency in navigating and understanding features within the Varonis admin console. In this lab environment, you will gain hands-on experience with essential Varonis and DLP-related tasks with Microsoft 365. You will get hands-on experience with real-world use cases while learning how to navigate different Varonis dashboards.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
SentinelOne Endpoint & AI SIEM Foundations Lab
Welcome to the SentinelOne Endpoint & AI SIEM Foundations lab provided by the WWT ATC! This lab provides you with a sample environment where you can gain hands-on experience with the SentinelOne solution.
Partner Spotlight
Cloudflare Inc
The Cloudflare connectivity cloud is a robust global network and unified platform that gives enterprises access to over 60 cloud services to modernize the network, protects users against phishing and email-based attacks, thwart modern application threats such as malicious bots, and accelerate adoption of zero trust, SASE, and other strategic security frameworks. The network is built for security, speed, and reliability, and sits within ~50ms from about 95% of the world's internet-connected population and is trusted by millions of web properties worldwide.
Partner POV | Cloudflare Delivering Against WWT's 2025 Security Priorities
Cloudflare's connectivity cloud, in partnership with WWT, offers a unified platform to enhance cybersecurity governance, secure AI solutions, and build cyber resilience. By modernizing networks and optimizing security tools, organizations can stay ahead of evolving threats and compliance demands, paving the way for a secure digital future.
Partner POV | E-Government and Cybersecurity Tie for #1 NASCIO Priority
In 2024, NASCIO's strategic priorities spotlighted a tie between cybersecurity and digital government services, emphasizing their intertwined importance. As state and local governments strive for seamless, secure digital experiences, resilience emerges as a crucial factor in building public trust. Cloudflare's solutions offer enhanced security and performance, addressing these priorities effectively.
Partner POV | Cloudflare's Post-Quantum Game Plan
Quantum computing poses a dual-edged sword: promising innovation while threatening digital security. As criminals exploit "harvest now, decrypt later" strategies, organizations must transition to post-quantum cryptography. Embrace crypto agility and proactive planning to safeguard data against emerging quantum threats, ensuring long-term security and compliance in an evolving technological landscape.