Curated Code Repos Get Your Integration Project Done Faster, Better

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Having a hard time getting started on your next big integration with Cisco products? Found the platform and API docs on DevNet but need help turning this into running code? Check out Code Exchange, one more way DevNet makes it easy for developers to be successful with Cisco...

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Cisco Intersight: AI-Driven IT Operations Strategy

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Cisco launched our cloud-based platform for AI-driven IT operations (a.k.a. AI Ops), Cisco Intersight, last September. It already delivers significant benefits, and we intend to take it to the next level with artificial intelligence and machine learning. A New Era in Operations Management “Work smarter, not harder” is...

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Improve Office 365 Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN

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As more applications move to the cloud, the traditional approach of backhauling traffic over expensive WAN circuits to the data center or a centralized Internet gateway via a hub-and-spoke architecture is no longer relevant. Traditional WAN infrastructure was not designed for accessing applications in the cloud. It is...

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Updated IOS-XR Programmability Learning Labs and Sandbox Expand Your Options

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A few weeks back I shared this blog post New XR Programmability Learning Labs and Sandbox introducing the new IOS-XR Learning Lab and a dedicated sandbox environment for IOS-XR programmability. This IOS-XR Programmability sandbox and learning labs provide an environment where developers and network engineers can explore the...

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Automated Policy & Segmentation Violation Alerting with Stealthwatch Cloud

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Stealthwatch Cloud is best known for network behavioral anomaly detection and entity modeling, but the level network visibility value it provides far exceeds these two capabilities. The underlying traffic dataset provides an incredibly accurate recording for every network conversation that has transpired throughout your global network.  This includes...

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Secure Multi-Tenancy Part 2: Going Multi-Instance

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Requirements Overview In the previous blog post, we went over the common requirements for partitioning a single physical security appliance into multiple virtual firewalls. We talked about how this logical separation brings a lot of complexity into environments where true data and management plane isolation between different tenants...

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Security Multi-Tenancy Part 1: Defining the Problem

Pre-Virtual Virtual Firewalls Nowadays, everyone likes to talk about network function virtualization. Most security vendors build their firewall products to run on a few popular hypervisors. However, the “virtual firewall” term predates this virtualization craze. Many firewall administrators use this nomenclature to describe an ability to create multiple...

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What is SD-WAN?

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The SD-WAN market is in high gear. The concept is solid and the benefits are real. There are, in fact, very few WAN situations that would not benefit greatly from this technology. However, all SD-WAN is not the same. There are multiple paths you choose as you endeavor...

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The Role of Visibility in SecOps

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The bad guys aren’t going away.  In fact, they are getting smart, more creative, and just as determined to wreak havoc for profit as they have ever been.  The good news is Security solutions and methodologies are getting better.  Next Generation Firewalls, Malware Protection, and Access Control are...

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Deploying Stealthwatch Cloud in a Google GKE Kubernetes Cluster

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Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud has the unique ability to provide an unprecedented level of visibility and security analytic capabilities within a Kubernetes cluster. It really doesn’t matter where the cluster resides, whether on-premise or in any public cloud environment. Stealthwatch Cloud deploys as a daemonset via a yaml file...

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