Cisco ISR
Integration: The Civilized Approach to Securing Your Branch
We demonstrate two different scenarios: An anomaly that turns out to be an FTP file transfer we didn’t expect, and an unusual spike in traffic. In both cases, what blew me away was how easy it was to understand what was truly going on, and how simple it was to take action.
Protect the Branch with Stealthwatch Learning Network License
The threat environment faced by organization deploying branch networks continues to evolve. It’s time for a disruptive approach to handling network security across many distributed branch sites. Automation is becoming a requirement, because the growing volume and complexity of the threats to data security have made it impossible to keep up with them manually. Cisco […]
Ignite Your Enterprise Digital Journey in Three Steps
It’s been a few exciting weeks recently at Cisco. On the heels of Cisco and Apple innovations for iOS 10, came the Tetration Analytics announcement to provide pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. Now, I am ecstatic to continue that momentum with an update to our Digital Network Architecture (DNA) […]
Branch Direct Internet Access: is your branch office secure?
With the recent launch of FirePower Threat Defense on Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers, I would like to spend some time talking about enterprise branch security and...
Defending Your Console
A new problem has arisen in CCNA class: We have a lab that asks the students to enable a debug command; the debug overruns the console buffer to the extent that commands cannot be entered, and this goes on for more than an hour! In my 15 years of teaching CCNA classes, we have always […]
The Evolution of Branch Connectivity
Over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to come up from my rabbit hole of deployment projects and catch up on the tech news. In particular, the announcement at Interop New York where Cisco announced the new ISR 4400 family of routers along with a few other articles got me to thinking about how far branch office connectivity […]
IWAN Wed: Securing Your Transport Independence with DMVPN
In my last blog I talked about the value of Pfr to the IWAN solution. This week I wanted to talk about DMVPN and why it is going to be a critical component of your IWAN deployment. Your IWAN topology will most likely consist of one or more internet connections which means that your data […]