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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 72 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.
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.
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.
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.
Getting Started with Terraform
This hands-on lab covers both basic and advanced Terraform concepts, using Cisco SD-WAN as the practical example. You'll progress from basic provider configuration and resource creation to advanced topics like modules, workspaces, and dynamic blocks, gaining practical experience with Infrastructure as Code best practices along the way.
Why the Cisco Security Partner VT Belongs in Every Cybersecurity Architect's Calendar
The Cisco Security Partner VT in Research Triangle Park offered an immersive, hands-on exploration of Cisco's security portfolio, fostering deep engagement and strategic insights. Attendees gained early access to cutting-edge features, enhancing their expertise and strengthening partner relationships. This event exemplifies the power of focused, in-person learning for advancing cybersecurity strategies.
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela) Sandbox (26.1.x)
This Sandbox environment features a pre-configured network topology designed to showcase the diverse capabilities of the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution. The incorporated set of components within the lab topology includes Controllers and IOS-XE WAN Edges (Catalyst 8000V), all running on 26.1.1 code.
Why Digital Experience Monitoring is a Strategic Move for IT Leaders
Learn what digital experience monitoring is, how it can improve the employee experience, and what you can do now to get started.
Cisco Unveils 'Foundational' Universal Quantum Switch To Scale The Quantum Internet
'There's going to be very few people that understand how to operate, build and operate these things … technology is moving so fast now that most of our clients can't keep up with that. They're having to rely on partners more and more,' one executive at a Cisco partner says of the emerging quantum opportunity.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.
The Future of Observability With Splunk Powered by Agentic AI
Splunk keeps your digital environment visible and resilient, so you can focus on building, innovating, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. The past was reactive, the future is proactive — explore what Splunk Observability, powered by Agentic AI, can do for your organization.
Top Digital Experience Monitoring Solutions for Employee Experience
Our experts have evaluated, tested and deployed eight leading DEM solutions in our Advanced Technology Center to provide insights into key strengths, capabilities and ideal use cases.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Networking – Configuring EIGRP
Join us for an immersive, hands-on networking workshop focused on configuring and optimizing the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) within Cisco environments. This lab walks participants through core routing concepts, neighbor adjacency formation, metric calculation, and essential EIGRP configuration steps used in real-world deployments. You will examine how EIGRP selects efficient paths, balances traffic, manages convergence, and ensures reliable internal network performance. Whether building foundational routing skills or preparing for Cisco certification, this guided workshop provides the practical, scenario-based experience needed to confidently implement and troubleshoot EIGRP at scale.
Decoupled by Design: Why Cloud-managed Networks Still Require On-premises Data Plane Aggregation
With Cisco's Campus Gateway and Juniper's Mist Edge converging on the same architectural principle, centralized data-plane aggregation is now an expectation.
Modernizing Operations with Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Join WWT and Cisco for an immersive workshop designed to evolve your data center from manual CLI management to an AI-ready, intent-based network via Nexus Dashboard.