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Cisco Live 2026: Security Innovation Highlights and What WWT's Team Brought to Las Vegas
WWT's breakdown of Cisco's biggest security announcements from Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas: Cloud Control, Live Protect, Hybrid Mesh Firewall, agentic security, the Astrix acquisition, expanded Talos threat hunting, and quantum readiness. Plus a spotlight on WWT's sessions, booth activities, and client events at the show!
Closing the Enterprise Data and AI Readiness Gap: A Guide for Enterprise Leaders
Most enterprises have the platforms. Few have the operating discipline to activate them. This paper makes the case for treating data readiness as a leadership priority and outlines four actions to close the gap.
World Wide Technology Recognized by Dell Technologies as 2026 Federal Strategic Impact Partner of the Year and Marketing Partner of the Year
WWT received top honors at Dell Technologies World 2026 for its federal market impact and excellence in partner marketing.
Are You a Drug Company or a Data Company That Produces Drugs?
Life sciences organizations are generating unprecedented volumes of data while leaving most of it unused. Treating data as a currency rather than inventory is a strategic imperative, not a technology preference. The economics of data in motion, the artificial intelligence (AI) readiness gap, and the WWT Return on Research (ROR) framework all point to the conclusion that organizations that move data intelligently will lead. A short diagnostic quiz helps leaders gauge where they stand today.
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SBJ: 2026 Most Influential Business Women
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CRN: 2026 Solution Provider 500
CRN's 2026 Solution Provider 500 list ranks the largest VARs, systems integrators, strategic service providers, and IT consultants operating in North America based on revenue.
2026 StateScoop 50 Awards Announced
StateScoop brings together IT leaders and innovators from across government, academia and industry to exchange best practices and identify ways to improve state and city government.
WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh Guests on Thirty Minute Mentors
Jim Kavanaugh was invited by host Adam Mendler, who brings his audience "Leaders to Listen to."
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Explore how AI is transforming cybersecurity, the risks posed by advanced models like Mythos, and actionable strategies for building resilience against emerging threats.
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Kubernetes Troubleshooting for Infrastructure Engineers
Real Kubernetes environments break — pods crash, services go unreachable, and IPs stop assigning. This lab guides you through real-world failure scenarios before putting you in the hot seat with a no hand-holding CrashLoop challenge. Using kubectl, K9s, and Headlamp, you'll diagnose misconfigured Helm charts, resolve MetalLB failures, and fix five progressive CrashLoop scenarios. Build the instincts that matter when production goes down.
How to Choose the Right LLM
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Market instability and rising costs challenge IT leaders, pushing them towards complex, risky DIY solutions. Lenovo's ThinkAgile FX offers a streamlined, flexible Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution, ensuring investment protection and operational simplicity. It empowers organizations to adapt seamlessly, avoiding vendor lock-in and reducing future disruption risks. Stay in control, effortlessly.
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Arista Networks revolutionizes campus networking with its Cognitive Campus architecture, achieving a billion-dollar milestone by 2026. By integrating AI, zero-trust security, and a unified operating system, Arista transforms network management, offering seamless, secure, and scalable solutions. Recognized as a leader, Arista sets the gold standard for future-ready, intelligent networking.
AI Data Flywheel Use Case on Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
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Mythos Is Coming. Are You Building Walls or Traps?
Anthropic's forthcoming Mythos model wasn't built to hack. It just learned how — and it's good at it. In this AI Proving Ground Podcast episode, former NSA cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and WWT cyber leader Kent Noyes break down what Mythos means for your security posture and what the defender's playbook looks like now.
WWT — Frontier Model Readiness: 45 Days of Lessons from Mythos
Join WWT for this webinar as we share the latest field learnings across Mythos, and more recently announced Daybreak, and MDASH — and what they mean for your organization's security posture.
The frontier AI threat landscape has shifted faster than most organizations anticipated. Forty-five days after Mythos, two new agentic harnesses — OpenAI's Daybreak and Microsoft's MDASH — have introduced meaningful capability jumps that demand a fresh look at your readiness posture.
In this session, WWT brings together updated research, field learnings, and a differentiated service offering designed specifically to help organizations move from awareness to action. You'll hear directly from practitioners who have been working this problem every day — and walk away with a clear picture of where WWT can help you accelerate your readiness posture.
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How to Use ARMOR: A Guide to AI Security Transformation
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Securing AI in Motion: Gigamon Deep Observability for WWT ARMOR
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Customer expectations are shifting faster than most organizations can respond. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, leaders from healthcare, utilities and retail break down how AI is redefining what "good" customer experience looks like — and how their industries are rethinking service models, operational workflows and human touchpoints to keep pace with a new, AI-shaped standard.
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AI security is entering a new phase where models like Anthropic's Mythos are becoming more capable and agentic systems can take action across enterprise environments. The risk is no longer just bad answers or hallucinations. It is speed, scope and blast radius. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT security leaders Jillian Nix-Anderson and Istvan Berko explore how organizations can secure themselves in the agentic AI era, where vulnerability discovery, response timelines and operational complexity are all accelerating. And they talk about how WWT's ARMOR framework helps teams structure the conversation across infrastructure, models, data, software development, operations and compliance.
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How AI Is Rewriting Customer Expectations Across Healthcare, Utilities and Retail
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Securing AI When Agents Move Faster Than Humans Can Respond
AI security is entering a new phase where models like Anthropic's Mythos are becoming more capable and agentic systems can take action across enterprise environments. The risk is no longer just bad answers or hallucinations. It is speed, scope and blast radius. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT security leaders Jillian Nix-Anderson and Istvan Berko explore how organizations can secure themselves in the agentic AI era, where vulnerability discovery, response timelines and operational complexity are all accelerating. And they talk about how WWT's ARMOR framework helps teams structure the conversation across infrastructure, models, data, software development, operations and compliance.
The Boardroom Reckoning on AI: Why AI Demands a New Kind of Leadership
AI is forcing a new leadership challenge inside the enterprise, in which boards are expected to oversee a fast-moving technology they do not manage day to day, while executives are tasked with deploying it responsibly at speed. In this episode, Byron Loflin, Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq, and WWT AVP of Global Cyber Advocacy Kate Kuehn explore what that means for modern governance — from board-level AI literacy and trust between directors and management to error reporting, escalation paths and the growing need for stronger oversight as AI systems become more capable and more autonomous.
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AI at a Standstill? How Automation Unlocks Real ROI
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Securing AI in Motion: Gigamon Deep Observability for WWT ARMOR
Gain insights into Gigamon's role in strengthening AI security through improved network visibility, alongside WWT's AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience (ARMOR) framework. Kent Noyes (WWT), Bassam Khan (Gigamon), and Istvan Berko (WWT) discuss how rapid AI adoption is expanding the attack surface and why organizations need governance, data controls, and visibility into data flows to innovate securely. The session outlines ARMOR's focus areas (including governance/compliance, model protection, data security operations, and secure development lifecycle) and explains how Gigamon's east-west traffic visibility and metadata extraction can support detection, investigations, and AI-driven analytics for SOC and operational use cases.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: NetBrain Essentials for Network Operations
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NetBrain is a web-based, SSH-, SNMP-, and API-driven network operations platform that helps teams visualize, automate, document, troubleshoot, and remediate their networks using live data and interactive maps. By the end of this session, you will understand how to use NetBrain not only to view your network, but also to continuously validate it and accelerate troubleshooting through repeatable, map-driven automated workflows.
Powering the Next Frontier of Academic Research at The Texas A&M University System
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Cisco Optical DWDM Sandbox
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Tanium Proving Ground Lab
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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Walk Through Lab
This lab will go into the basics of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) through hands on access to a dedicated environment.
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Okta
Okta Identity and access management platform is neutral, extensible, easy-to-use, neutral and works with your existing and new applications. We address various identity use cases with our cybersecurity solutions including customer, employees, partners, contractors and vendors to securely access their resources.
Okta Foundations
This on-demand integration lab is a capability of WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC), designed to provide hands-on experience with Okta.
The purpose of this lab is to help you develop proficiency in navigating and configuring features within the Okta admin console. In this lab environment, you will gain hands-on experience with essential Okta tasks, including managing users and groups, integrating applications using SAML, and connecting Okta with Active Directory. You will also explore how to configure device assurance policies, ensuring secure access across various devices.
Partner POV | What CISOs Typically Miss About AI Agent Security
AI agents are reshaping enterprise landscapes, yet most lack governance strategies, posing security risks. Okta's solution emphasizes identity as the control plane, offering visibility and control over AI agents. By integrating with existing identity providers, organizations can secure AI agents without waiting for formal policies, mitigating risks from shadow AI.
Okta for AI Agents Overview
Learn how to safely transition to an "Agentic Enterprise" by answering three critical questions: Where are your agents? What are they connecting to? And what are they actually authorized to do? Okta treats AI agents as first-class identities, giving you the visibility and control needed to confidently scale your AI strategy.