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Deep Dive: Automating NetOps with the cisco.catalystcenter Ansible Collection

Explore how Cisco Catalyst Center and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform help NetOps teams automate provisioning, SD-Access, software image management, assurance, and compliance at scale.

August 25, 2026 • 4 min read

Julio Gomez

Mutual Post-Quantum Auth over IKEv2 – IPsec Series, Part 8

We mutually authenticate an IKEv2 tunnel: classical ECDSA first, then ML-DSA over an ML-KEM key exchange, and watch the ML-DSA certs balloon the authentication message into six fragments on the wire.

August 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Julio Gomez

The Great Certificate Size Explosion – IPsec Series, Part 7

Hands-on with OpenSSL 3.5: we generate classical and post-quantum certificates and weigh them side by side. Then we sign, verify, and tamper.

August 17, 2026 • 6 min read

Alex Kim

Oren Brigg

Build agentic networking experiences with Meraki and Catalyst Center MCP servers

Use Cisco's beta Meraki and Catalyst Center MCP servers to bring supported, read-only network data into the AI agents and applications you build.

August 10, 2026 • 6 min read

Julio Gomez

Who Goes There? Post-Quantum Authentication – IPsec Series, Part 6

Auth is the other pillar, with a sneakier quantum deadline: a live signature need only resist forgery until it's verified, but long-lived trust anchors and slow PKI migration mean roots must go quantum-safe early. We meet ML-DSA and SLH-DSA

August 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Adrienne Moherek

Stève Sfartz

Beyond the Protocol: Applying API Engineering Practices to MCP Servers

Cisco DevNet applies API engineering practices, such as versioning, linting, changelogs, documentation, to MCP servers with a new format: MCP Description.

August 4, 2026 • 7 min read

Julio Gomez

A Different Road to Quantum Safety: The PPK – IPsec Series, Part 5

A second road to quantum safety: a Postquantum Preshared Key mixes an out-of-band secret into the IKE key schedule that never travels the wire, so even a classical handshake resists "harvest now, decrypt later," on gear not supporting ML-KEM.

August 3, 2026 • 5 min read

Julio Gomez

Watch a Hybrid Post-Quantum Handshake on the Wire – IPsec Series, Part 4

We build a real hybrid IKEv2 tunnel in two Docker containers, capture the packets, and run classical versus hybrid side by side, seeing the extra round trip, ML-KEM fragmentation, and that going quantum-safe costs almost nothing.

July 27, 2026 • 5 min read

Julio Gomez

ML-KEM vs Diffie-Hellman: The Showdown – IPsec Series, Part 3

We put Diffie-Hellman and ML-KEM side by side on size, latency, compute, and security, and land on the smartest move: a hybrid key exchange that runs both and combines their secrets, so an attacker would have to break both at once.

July 20, 2026 • 3 min read

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