An overview of Cisco Secure Firewall history, and an introduction to Cisco Security verbiage, lingo, and acronyms.

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.

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.

Learn about the competitive difference NGFW has over traditional firewalls, types of organizations that benefit most from NGFS and competitive vendors in the space.

A review of the features that differentiate today's hottest NGFW solutions.

Cisco engaged Miercom to conduct a review of their converged security and SD-WAN technologies available through Catalyst and Meraki WAN appliances.