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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco AI Defense
Join us for an immersive, hands-on Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed to challenge and sharpen your AI security skills. The Cisco AI Defense CTF lab puts you in the middle of real-world AI threat scenarios, where you will exploit and defend against vulnerabilities including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and misuse of generative AI models. Watch Cisco AI Defense technology intercept and neutralize attacks in real time as you work through progressively challenging scenarios. This lab goes beyond surface-level awareness—giving you direct, practical experience with the tools and techniques used to secure enterprise AI 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.
Programmability and Automation Meetup Group
The Programmability and Automation Meetup Group focuses on programmability, automation, and Infrastructure as Code using both Open Source tools and vendor-specific solutions. All skill levels are welcome. We will cover many topics from various technologies and provide hands-on lab opportunities.
Vermeer
Welcome to the Vermeer community page on the WWT Digital Platform. This private community site is created to improve collaboration and discussion between our organizations to drive business outcomes. Within this community, you will find links to articles, events, videos, workshops, and a broad collection of digital labs to support experimentation, education, and exploration.
ARMOR In Action with Cisco: Ensuring Comprehensive Security Coverage for Your Production-Ready AI Factory
Learn how Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA maps across all six of the ARMOR domains, giving organizations a clear, scalable path to govern, protect and operate AI systems securely.
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Cisco AI Defense CTF
Join us for Cisco AI Defense, an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
This is a single player CTF, which will be open for 96 hours. We will have a shared scoreboard. Should players finish with equal scores, final placement will be awarded to the player who achieved their last correct submission in the least amount of time from their first submission.
Powered by our advanced Cyber Range platform, this immersive simulation challenges participants to exploit and defend against real-world AI vulnerabilities — including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and misuse of generative models. You'll see firsthand how Cisco's AI Defense identifies and mitigates these threats in real time.
Cisco Routed PON Manager Lab
This lab introduces users to Cisco's Routed PON Manager, which they will learn to use to monitor and manage the various aspects of their Routed PON solution, including Controllers, OLTs, and ONUs.
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SRv6 uSID Lab
SRv6 utilizes the IPv6 data plane natively to deliver Segment Routing capabilities which dramatically simplifies network deployments. By eliminating the need for MPLS label shims and transporting SRv6 SIDs as IPv6 addresses, any IPv6 capable router can forward an SRv6 packet. This means that you can run SRv6 services over any IPv6-enabled infrastructure. This lab will introduce you to the basics of SRv6 with L3VPN over a purely IPv6 transport.
Cisco Secure Firewall Firepower Sandbox 7.4
Cisco Secure Firewall/Firepower Management NGFW Sandbox lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This is designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the Cisco Secure Firewall version 7.4. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
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Cisco ACI Multisite Nexus Dashboard 4.x Orchestrator
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.x, featuring integrated Orchestrator, acts as the centralized management hub for modern ACI architectures. It provides a single interface to oversee and automate complex network environments by decoupling policy instantiation from individual fabrics. This allows administrators to deploy consistent security and connectivity models across physical data centers and virtual cloud sites. Ultimately, it simplifies operations by treating disparate fabrics as a unified entity, maintaining seamless segmentation and governance at scale.
Secure the Use of GenAI Models with Cisco Secure Access
Cisco Secure Access serves as an integrated platform that provides the necessary infrastructure for organizations to govern and protect their artificial intelligence usage through centralized policy management. By embedding AI Access capabilities directly into the solution, it allows businesses to maintain robust security, visibility, and data protection while fostering innovation across the enterprise.
Securing AI from Core to Edge: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
AI expands the attack surface. Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA fights back. Security engineered into every layer—models, apps, AI workloads, and infrastructure. From core to edge, trusted AI starts here.
Simple, Secure & Unified from Core to Edge: Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
Scaling AI shouldn't mean added complexity. Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA delivers a unified, secure operating model—from core to edge. Validated designs, built-in security, and Splunk end-to-end observability from AI agents to infrastructure.
Cisco Networking: Routing Protocols
This Learning Series focuses on core routing protocols, guiding you through structured learning paths for EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll build practical skills in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting routed networks. The journey begins with EIGRP, where you'll learn about its fundamentals, metrics, and efficient route propagation. Next, you'll dive into OSPF, exploring areas, LSAs, and hierarchical design for scalable networks. Finally, you'll master BGP, understanding path selection, policy control, and its role in internet-scale routing.
Ideal for network engineers, IT professionals, and anyone looking to strengthen their routing expertise, this series provides a progressive path from foundational concepts to advanced implementation.
Cisco Networking: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
This Learning Series covers essential EIGRP routing concepts and skills, forming a critical foundation for modern network engineering. Through hands-on labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain practical experience configuring, verifying, and troubleshooting EIGRP in a variety of environments. The journey begins with EIGRP Foundations, where you'll learn about neighbor relationships, DUAL operations, route advertisements and more. Next, you'll explore EIGRP Intermediate concepts such as route summarization, variance, unequal-cost load balancing, route filtering, and redistribution. Ideal for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone seeking to deepen their expertise in scalable, dynamic IP routing using EIGRP.
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)
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Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2
This lab is a continuation of the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1 to allow students to explore the basics of ACI Constructs, building an Application Profile, EPGs and Bridge domains, Policy Filters, and Contracts. The students then connect the ACI fabric to external layers 2 and 3 devices. The lab then finishes with ACI micro-segmentation inside an EPG to show a zero-trust model.
Unlike Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, which uses a simulator due to resource sharing with other students, this lab uses the latest ACI hardware and allows the student to test real-world data plane connectivity inside and outside the fabric.
Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) Intermediate
This learning path on Intermediate Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) provides a comprehensive understanding of EIGRP routing in Cisco networks. Participants will explore critical topics such as route summarization, route filtering, and redistribution. This path also delves into specialized EIGRP features, including offset lists and variance for unequal-cost load-balancing. Throughout, the learning path emphasizes best practices, common design mistakes to avoid, and hands-on configuration strategies to help learners confidently apply EIGRP in complex, real-world environments.
Hybrid Private Access with Cisco Secure Access
Cisco Secure Access provides a unified zero-trust platform that enables organizations to maintain consistent security policies across both cloud and on-premises environments. By integrating Hybrid Private Access, the platform allows IT teams to flexibly balance cloud-based scalability with local enforcement to meet specific privacy, compliance, and performance requirements.
Partner POV | Unlocking the Next Level of Observability
Observability has rapidly evolved from a niche IT concept to an essential business enabler, directly influencing organizational processes, customer experiences, and even revenue growth. But as systems grow increasingly complex, practices mature, and adoption scales globally, what's next for observability?
Network Engineering Foundations
This Learning Series covers the fundamentals of network engineering. Through hands-on labs and real-world examples, you will develop the practical skills necessary to build and maintain robust networks. It is perfect for aspiring network engineers, IT professionals, or anyone interested in understanding the backbone of today's interconnected world.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco AI Defense
Join us for an immersive, hands-on Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed to challenge and sharpen your AI security skills. The Cisco AI Defense CTF lab puts you in the middle of real-world AI threat scenarios, where you will exploit and defend against vulnerabilities including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and misuse of generative AI models. Watch Cisco AI Defense technology intercept and neutralize attacks in real time as you work through progressively challenging scenarios. This lab goes beyond surface-level awareness—giving you direct, practical experience with the tools and techniques used to secure enterprise AI environments.
Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (20.3.4)
The Cisco SD-WAN 20.3.4 Sandbox is a capability of the ATC designed to provide an environment to gain hands on experience with the latest features in the Cisco SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the Cisco SD-WAN 20.3.4 Sandbox is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Cisco Catalyst (Viptela) SD-WAN Multi-Region Fabric
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Multi-Region Fabric architecture with this all-encompassing learning path that includes articles, videos, and hands-on lab experiences, offering a deep dive into the essential features of the latest Cisco SD-WAN architecture.
Cisco Networking: IPv6
This learning path builds a practical understanding of IPv6 in enterprise environments through a structured, hands-on approach. It begins with foundational routing using OSPFv3 in a multi-area design, then expands into multi-protocol environments with EIGRP for IPv6 and eBGP between autonomous systems.
As you progress, you will apply key routing control techniques such as filtering, summarization, and redistribution to manage and optimize IPv6 route propagation across domains.
The learning path concludes with IPv6 transition technologies, including NAT64 and IPv6 tunneling, showing how IPv6 networks integrate with existing IPv4 infrastructure during real-world migration scenarios.