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Using Cisco's DNA Center to Deploy SD-Access
Use this step-by-step guide to easily design your network, define your policies and provision your infrastructure with Cisco's DNA Center.
What Is Cisco Software-Defined (SD) Access?
Cisco SD-Access is a campus network architecture providing segmentation, identity-based access and visibility of endpoint devices. It secures user access and streamlines network deployment and management.
Cisco ACI Design Workshop
The market for data center networking has shifted towards software-defined solutions. Cisco ACI offers a unique approach to addressing the challenges of the data center network, providing visibility, speed, agility, and cloud extensions. The workshop will explore the Cisco Intent-Based Network and focus on closed-loop assurance. Automation is also increasing, reducing manual effort in operating and maintaining complex technologies. The goal is to help customers achieve a secure, reliable, and stable data center network with consistent and measurable results.
Cisco Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
Learn the basics about network security and how next-generation firewalls (NGFW) fits into a secure environment. Establish baseline knowledge around the Cisco Secure Firewall to better understand the tools and techniques used to secure the most important part of your networks. You will have the opportunity to explore these concepts, tools, and practices through this NGFW Learning Path. So Let's jump in!
Cisco ISE 101 Workshop
The Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 101 Workshop is structured as a hybrid workshop and delivered by a technology-specific Subject Matter Expert in a workshop format, either virtually via the customer's preferred meeting application or onsite at the customer's location.
The engagement combines an SME engagement, workshop, training and lab demo in one interactive experience that focuses on learning a new technology, best practices and how it will fit into the customer's current environment.
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Transforming Healthcare with SD-Access
Cisco's Software-Defined Access brings 5 key network benefits to healthcare organizations.
Understanding Cisco ISE 3.x and the Benefits of Migrating from ISE 2.x to 3.x
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 3.x represents a significant upgrade over its predecessor, Cisco ISE 2.x, offering a host of new features, improved performance and enhanced security capabilities. This blog post delves into the key features of Cisco ISE 3.x and highlights the benefits of migrating from earlier versions, providing a thorough understanding of why this upgrade is essential for modern network environments.
Bridging Kubernetes, Cilium & eBPF to Networking Concepts for Network Engineers: Part 2 Security
As cloud-native technologies continue to converge with traditional networking in the data center and enterprise, understanding how Kubernetes, Cilium and eBPF works is crucial for network engineers. With hybrid mesh firewalls being the latest trend, and distributed firewalls (like Cisco's Hypershield) emerging in the market. Understanding how Kubernetes transforms traditional IP networking concepts into a dynamic, software-defined environment is crucial. This article demystifies Kubernetes security, making it accessible for network engineers familiar with ACLs and VLANs. You may think this doesn't apply to you, but if you're planning a firewall refresh anytime soon, then these concepts will need to be part of your vernacular going forward.
Bridging Kubernetes, Cilium & eBPF to Networking Concepts for Network Engineers: Part 3 Observability
As cloud-native technologies continue to converge with traditional networking in the datacenter and enterprise, understanding how Kubernetes, Cilium and eBPF works is crucial for network engineers. With hybrid mesh firewalls being the latest trend, and distributed firewalls (like Cisco's Hypershield) emerging in the market. Understanding how Kubernetes transforms traditional IP networking concepts into a dynamic, software-defined environment is crucial. This article demystifies Kubernetes observability, making it accessible for network engineers familiar with Logging and NetFlow. You may think this doesn't apply to you, but if your planning a firewall refresh anytime soon, then these concepts will need to be apart of your vernacular going forward.
SSE and SASE Market Scan Workshop
This workshop is designed to help organizations with their decision making for their next-generation network and security architecture.
Cisco XDR Learning Path
Explore Cisco's XDR allowing it's users to correlate data across several vendors and vectors providing a wholistic view of ones environment. Throughout this learning path and corresponding lab you will learn the fundamentals of the Cisco XDR components and tools that allow SOC analysts visibility and context into advanced threats! We will take you through an introduction and operation of the XDR console as well as automation. Let's get started!
SD-WAN Technology Briefing
Software-defined WAN offers organizations flexible connectivity, facilitates cloud strategies and improves application performance, all in a secure environment. It also can improve operational efficiencies and help control or reduce WAN costs.
Approaches to SD-WAN implementation and supported capabilities vary from one OEM to another. This briefing will explore four of the top SD-WAN vendors and highlight the innovative features that set each of their solutions apart, including a live demonstration of our on-demand SD-WAN lab environments and explanation of how to access them.
Empowering Security: Cisco's AI-Driven Future
Join us for an insightful conversation with Tom Gillis, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Security, Data Center, Internet and Cloud Infrastructure, as we explore the evolving cybersecurity landscape for 2025. We'll discuss the latest trends in AI-driven threats, the importance of integrated security solutions across the tech stack, and how Cisco's firewall models and Hypershield are shaping the future of defense strategies. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a leading industry expert on how to stay ahead of emerging threats and safeguard your organization's data.
Cisco Secure Firewall Strength in Unity
There is strength in unity, and when it comes to protecting the integrity of your organization, the same holds true. You need multiple security tools working together to protect your network, workforce, and workloads.
Army GEMSS-hosted Cisco Identity Services Engine – Security Seminars
World Wide Technology (WWT) through the Army Global Enterprise Modernization Software and Services (GEMSS) program, regularly offers the Army 1-Day security seminar events to learn more about Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE). These comprehensive seminars are delivered by our technology-specific Subject Matter Experts and will include interactive workshops, training, and lab demos for both ISE 101 (morning session) and ISE 102 (afternoon session). Attendees gain valuable insights into new technologies, best practices, and how to effectively integrate ISE into their current environments. In addition, continental breakfast and lunch is provided to all in-person attendees during the day long seminar.
Technology Spotlight: Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) Version 3.3
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) empowers organizations to strengthen and simplify network security. Upgrading to ISE 3.3 Premier unlocks advanced capabilities beyond Essentials, enhancing your network's value, optimizing operations and providing robust protection against emerging security threats.
Cisco Firewalls are Hot Right Now and Here's Why!
With a lot of good news around Cisco Secure Firewalls recently, we decided to put them to the test, ATC style!
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) and Nexus Dashboard Insights Workshop (NDI)
The Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) is a centralized solution designed to simplify the management of modern data center fabrics. NDFC streamlines the deployment, monitoring, and management of complex networking environments, making it an essential tool for organizations adopting advanced network architectures such as VXLAN EVPN, or traditional IP fabrics. With its intuitive interface and robust automation capabilities, NDFC allows administrators to define and enforce consistent policies, configure devices with ease, and ensure seamless fabric connectivity, significantly reducing the complexity associated with large-scale fabric management.
An essential complement to NDFC is Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI), which provides in-depth analytics and operational intelligence for data center fabrics. While NDFC excels at fabric provisioning and policy enforcement, NDI enhances visibility into the operational state of the network. It identifies potential issues, enables predictive analysis, and offers actionable recommendations for troubleshooting and optimization. Together, NDFC and NDI create a unified solution that not only simplifies fabric management but also ensures the ongoing health and performance of the network, providing closed-loop assurance that aligns with business needs.
The combination of NDFC and NDI delivers powerful benefits for data center operations, including enhanced efficiency, improved reliability, and reduced downtime. NDFC automates routine tasks, enabling IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives, while NDI proactively monitors the fabric for anomalies, helping to resolve issues before they impact services. This synergy between NDFC's fabric management and NDI's operational intelligence empowers organizations to maintain secure, scalable, and high-performing data center networks, meeting the demands of modern workloads and applications. Together, they ensure a comprehensive and resilient network management experience.
Cisco ACI and Nexus Dashboard Insights (NDI) Workshop
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a software-defined networking (SDN) solution designed to simplify, optimize, and automate data center networks by unifying physical and virtual environments under a centralized, policy-driven framework. It enables dynamic application provisioning, centralized policy management, and real-time network visibility, making it ideal for modern IT environments. Complementing ACI, Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights provides advanced analytics, health monitoring, and predictive insights to enhance network performance and reliability. By detecting anomalies, identifying root causes, and anticipating potential disruptions, Nexus Dashboard Insights minimizes downtime and ensures smooth operations. Seamlessly integrating with ACI, it offers actionable intelligence to maintain compliance, optimize application delivery, and secure network operations. Together, ACI and Nexus Dashboard Insights create a powerful ecosystem for managing and optimizing complex data center networks, driving operational efficiency and resilience.
Cisco Hypershield: Reimagining security at AI-scale
Given the challenges of today's threat landscape, nothing less than a radical rethinking of security will do. Cisco Hypershield is it.
eBPF is the Bee's Knees for Enterprise Environments
At its core, eBPF Programs are at the heart of how eBPF views and controls traffic. The eBPF technology is composed of bytecode that the kernel executes in response to specific events (a.k.a event-driven execution). Meaning the eBPF programs can be attached to various hook points in the kernel, allowing them to run in response to a specific event in the kernel. There's a lot of possibilities that stem from this event-driven execution. So many in fact, that eBPF was dubbed by Brendan Gregg as "superpowers for Linux!"
Cisco Secure Edge (Umbrella) DNS Security Integration With Cisco SD-WAN
Traditional methods of backhauling Internet-bound traffic from branches to a data center for traditional security services is expensive and latency intensive. Many organizations are improving their network infrastructure by adopting a SASE (Secure Access Services Edge) architecture. Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco Secure Edge (formerly Umbrella) SASE integrations give organizations the ability to leverage cloud-delivered security in minutes. This demonstration is designed to give an overview of the integration between Umbrella DNS Layer Security and Cisco SD-WAN.
ASAv integration in Cisco ACI using PBR Service Graph redirection Lab
The goal of this lab is to show how policy-based redirection to a L4-7 device can be used with a single bridge domain needed for Cisco ACI fabrics. The use of a single bridge domain and single PBR redirection is known as "one-armed mode."
Cisco vFTD integration in ACI using PBR Service Graph redirection Lab
The goal of this lab is to show how policy-based redirection to a L4-7 device can be used with a single bridge domain needed for Application Centric (ACI) fabrics. The use of a single bridge domain and single PBR redirection is known as "one -armed mode."