microsegmentation

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I can’t believe it has been a year since I wrote the blog series (part-I, part-II, part-III and

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Growing up in Britain, a fair share of our history lessons covered the black death. It was a truly horrible plague that affected all without prejudice, ravaging the young and old throughout towns, cities, countries and the continent with seemingly no end. Surprisingly, it’s hard to remember everything from that class (hey, it was quite […]

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This is Part IV in a four part series of blogs. This blog has been co-written with Vincent Esposito (@vesposit) This is the last of a series of blogs...

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This is Part II in a four part series of blogs.  This is the second of a series of blogs where we will illustrate how to leverage Cisco ACI to implement Micro Segmentation. In the first blog we described how to use ACI micro segmentation to implement a web application that uses a tier of […]

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This is Part I in a four part series of blogs.  Micro-segmentation has become a buzzword in the networking industry. Leaving the term and the marketing aside, it is easy to understand why customers are interested in the benefits that Micro-segmentation provides. The primary advantage of Micro-segmentation is to reduce the attack surface by minimizing […]

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Modern data centers are under unrelenting attack. East-west traffic security breaches are happening every day. According to Cisco, 75 percent of all attacks take only minutes to begin stealing data but take longer to detect.   Once discovered, several weeks may pass before full containment and remediation are achieved. Today’s data centers require a variety of […]

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(This blog has been developed in association with Praveen Jain, VP, Engineering of Cisco’s Application Policy Infrastructure Controller, Juan Lage, Principal Engineer and others) Security is top of mind in today’s data center and cloud deployments and security architectures have continued to evolve even as new threats manifest themselves in the digital world. Today’s security […]