Cisco Champion Radio

Join us for an informal discussion on why enterprise microservices architectures rely on open source service mesh, such as Istio, to secure, connect, observe and control services with little or no changes to the application code.  In addition, how Cisco Service Mesh Manager, an extension of Intersight Kubernetes Service, builds upon the advantages of 100% upstream Istio by adding a powerful UI/API and tooling to manage complex multi-cluster applications and services cross any cloud, any time, and from anywhere. Learn more: https://blogs.cisco.com/cloud/cisco-service-mesh-manager-now-available-on-cisco-intersight?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion  Cisco Champion Hosts Dan Kelcher, Meridian IT, Inc., Enterprise Network and Cybersecurity Solutions Architect Joseph Houghes (twitter.com jhoughes), Pure Storage, Senior Solutions Architect Mir Hossein Mirghassemi (twitter.com/packetroute), Morgan Stanley, VP, Cloud DevSecOps Engineering   Guest Justin Barksdale (twitter.com/3pings), Ci

Threat hunting is a security practice where you look for threats that have managed to get past your defenses and have hidden themselves within your environment. It’s not just about uncovering threats, but also implementing policies and playbooks to shore up your security posture. In fact, some of the most successful hunts may not uncover a threat at all. Rather, they identify a weakness in the environment that needs to be addressed. In this episode, we’ll discuss the practice of threat hunting and how to transition to remediation once a threat or weakness has been identified. Learn more: blogs.cisco.com/security/the-valu…tid=opdcsnc001469 www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/s…dtid=opdcsnc001469 www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/s…dtid=opdcsnc001469 Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampions Cisco Champion Hosts Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady), BHP, Principal RF Wireless Engineer Kenny Paula, Reading Area Community College, IT Instructor Mark Sibering (twitter.com/netcicd), Devoteam, Principal Architect Gu

Listen to this episode to learn more about how we can help you focus on business innovation by demystifying your hybrid cloud network automation and operations. Simplify hybrid cloud networking with a single platform, Cisco Nexus Dashboard. With its One View presentation of all your hybrid cloud network sites, your IT operators can use a single agile platform, to operate all their network infrastructure in a single place. The Cisco Nexus Dashboard bridges all the tools needed by each persona (NetOps, DevOps, CloudOps or SecOps) with a flexible operational model for key use cases on a single platform. Use the same platform, whether on-premises, at the edge and/or in the public cloud. Join us today to catapult your infrastructure into the IT high performance zone. Learn more: http://www.cisco.com/go/nexusdashboard?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion     Cisco Champion Hosts Guru Bettadapura (twitter.com/betta_guru), Fivelayers, Consultant Meredith Rose (twitter.com/mer3dithr

Oh no! You find out bad actors are scouting your network. They’ve penetrated your organization, and now your files are locked. You are the victim of a ransomware attack. How did this happen? How do you handle an incident like this? What are the steps to remediation? Join Cisco Champions as they explain what ransomware is, discuss their unique experiences with handling ransomware outbreaks, and talk about how to be more proactive with protecting your network. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/security/ransomware-defense/index.html  Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampions    Cisco Champion Hosts Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Ashfield Healthcare, Manager Information Security Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo, CTO and Network Archeologist Girard Kavelines (twitter.com/GKavelines), The Wright Center For Primary Care, IT Specialist Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Moderator  Amilee San Juan (twi

One word describes the life of network operations, and that word is complex. It’s no wonder when your responsibility is to maintain multi-layer IP and Optical networks that span multiple domains built on top of multiple vendors. Tune in to this episode to learn from the experts on how customers are using Cisco Crosswork Hierarchical Controller to deliver operational excellence.  Tasks are simplified across all phases of the operational lifecycle.  With pre-integrated management to most IP and optical vendors, you gain unparalleled visibility through a unifying controller.  Through the single pain of glass, intuitively see the status of network services mapped across all layers of your network.  Leverage real-time and historical data to gain insights for assurance and optimization. Then translate the analytics into prescriptive actions that can be fully automated. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/crosswork-network-automation/solution-overview-c22-74

Ransomware, fileless malware, and zero-day attacks continue to target organizations around the world. In response, organizations have resorted to deploying a variety of disparate security controls that lead to increased complexity and inefficiency. There’s an easier, more effective way to defend your endpoints. Cisco Secure Endpoint stops threats while increasing the efficiency of your security team with a simple, unified defense. Tune in to this episode to hear Cisco Champions and Cisco experts discuss: • how Cisco Secure Endpoint can help you protect your organization, • new capabilities and enhancements, and • key use cases and more. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/amp-for-endpoints/index.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampions Cisco Champion Hosts Blaine Mulligan (twitter.com/mulliganbl), Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Solution Architect Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Ashfield Healthcare, Manager Information Security Liam Keegan (twitte

It’s been several years since the release of Cisco DNA Center, and it’s matured into a complete network management system, an automation and orchestration engine, an AI/ML analytics platform, a software-defined network controller and an endpoint identification and policy engine for zero-trust networking. Cisco DNA Center can streamline operations, make your team more agile and provide an improved user experience on the network. It’s definitely time to migrate from your old Cisco Prime Infrastructure, the question is: How do you reduce the cost and time you spend on this migration? More specifically, how can you verify that Cisco DNA Center will support the hardware devices and software currently installed on your network? What about use cases? Will you have to change your company workflows because the use cases in Prime Infrastructure are not supported in Cisco DNA Center? The same for reports, if Cisco DNA Center does not provide the reporting your team is used to, you may have to change your IT Team wor

Cisco Champions exemplify what we think about when we envision a technology enthusiast—intelligent, informed, engaged and passionate. They make geeky cool. They are both educators and lifelong learners. They’ve dared to dream big, broken down barriers, taken themselves outside of their comfort zones and lived to share their stories. Most importantly, they seek ways to engage with their larger community. To state it simply, Cisco Champions are next-level technologists. So, it’s no surprise that giving back to their communities is a source of passion and pride. Join this episode to hear how Cisco Technical Evangelist Jason Gooley and Cisco Champions Dan Kelcher, Girard Kavelines and Jonathan Mahady like to give back to their professional and personal communities all year long.  Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/events-webinars/influencer-hub.html  Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion Cisco Champion Hosts Dan Kelcher, Meridian IT, Inc., Enterprise Network and Cybersecurity Sol

Cisco SD-WAN is trusted by over 40,000 customers to help connect their users to applications while delivering a predictable and secure user experience. As an industry and market share leader, Cisco SD-WAN enables multicloud access while delivering a full stack of integrated security capabilities on premises and in the cloud. In addition to enabling multicloud access and delivering security your way, Cisco SD-WAN arms IT teams with analytics that is based on real-time insights to make actionable decisions to enhance and improve the user experience. Tune in to this episode to hear why Cisco SD-WAN is a critical component of your SASE architecture. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/enterprise-networks/sd-wan/new-landscape-of-networking.html?oid=ebketr024847#experience?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampions Cisco Champion Hosts  Dan Kelcher, Meridian IT, Enterprise Network and Cybersecurity Solutions Architect  Girard Kavelines (twitter.com/GKavelines), Helient S

Did you know that you can guarantee 99.999% uptime SLA using Equinix’s globally available private backbone? Cisco SD-WAN integration and automation with the Equinix Fabric and Network Edge platform enables you to deploy and manage all your SD-WAN gateways and connectivity across the globe from a single portal. Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect with Equinix delivers reliable network performance while decreasing operational costs and complexity by automating an on-demand network to sites and to leading cloud provider networks. In this podcast we’ll cover: How to create end-to-end connection in minutes versus months How to automate workflows to connect to any cloud and any carrier, so you can connect your branches and users to one another and the cloud How easy ordering, provisioning, and support can be with all provided from a single vendor How you can benefit from cost savings over using traditional connectivity   Learn more: cisco.com/go/onramp Cisco SD-WAN and Equinix white paper: https://www.cisco.com

APIClarity is an open sourced, cloud-native visibility tool for APIs. It utilizes a Service Mesh framework to capture and analyze API traffic and identify potential risks.   Tune in to this episode to learn how you can 1) use APIClarity to analyze microservices communications in a cloud service mesh 2)   leverage APIClarity to construct an OpenAPI specification in a live environment or compare a running environment to an existing OpenAPI specification, and 3) leverage APIClarity to improve your API visibility and your applications security posture. Learn more: https://apiclarity.io/?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion   Cisco Champion Hosts Marc Luescher (twitter.com/LuescherMarc), Fesenius Medical Care North America, Networking and Security Architect Matyáš Prokop (twitter.com/maty0609), Natilik, Principal Architect Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Zoë Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Canon EMEA, Regional and Supplier Infor

APIClarity is an open sourced, cloud-native visibility tool for APIs. It utilizes a Service Mesh framework to capture and analyze API traffic and identify potential risks.   Tune in to this episode to learn how you can 1) use APIClarity to analyze microservices communications in a cloud service mesh 2)   leverage APIClarity to construct an OpenAPI specification in a live environment or compare a running environment to an existing OpenAPI specification, and 3) leverage APIClarity to improve your API visibility and your applications security posture. Learn more: https://apiclarity.io/?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion   Cisco Champion Hosts Marc Luescher (twitter.com/LuescherMarc), Fesenius Medical Care North America, Networking and Security Architect Matyáš Prokop (twitter.com/maty0609), Natilik, Principal Architect Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Zoë Rose (twitter.com/RoseSecOps), Canon EMEA, Regional and Supplier Infor

Let’s face it: today’s work is hybrid. Making hybrid work requires more than collaboration tools and SaaS applications. It’s about connecting people, disparate workplaces, and their devices to accelerate productivity, safety, and innovation. But it seems easier said than done.   Tune in to our next episode to hear how the team at Cisco can help deliver amazing hybrid experiences and enable smarter workspaces with flexibility and style at any scale. We close with key takeaways on:   Delivering secure, connected experiences anywhere teams work Effective ways to make workplaces smarter and safer Keeping the whole system healthy without the need for house calls Learn more: https://meraki.cisco.com/experiences/experience-guide/  Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion   Cisco Champion Hosts Dan Sheldon (twitter.com/SheldonClimbs), WWT, Principal Systems Engineer Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo, CTO and Network Archeologist Guest Lee Peterson, Cisco, Product Management – Service Provider

Remember that time you forgot to put "add" in when changing VLANs? Or, when you spent hours on a config and rebooted without saving? As engineers we often feel the need to put our best face forward, but we've all made mistakes.  We’ve all brought networks down.   Tune in to this episode as Cisco Champions gather around the virtual campfire to tell their own spooooky IT horror stories.  Learn more: cisco.com/go/ciscochampion  Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion    Cisco Champion Hosts Dan Kelcher, Sleep Number, Senior Network Engineer Evan Mintzer (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Ashfield Healthcare, Manager Information Security Giuliano Barros (twitter.com/giuksbr) PS Network Experts, Network Engineer Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Moderator: Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

5G and Wi-Fi 6, the next generation of mobile wireless technologies are here! But what does that mean? Where and how is 5G being deployed? What is Wi-Fi 6? Who’s on first? What’s on second?   There are a myriad of questions about the next generation of wireless connectivity, from what it will look like, to how it will be used, to the experiences it enables. The future of wireless connectivity with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 is much more than enhancing the consumer experience, it is poised to reshape industries.  Unlike the previous generations of mobile technology that brought us voice, added data, shared multimedia, 5G’s true impact will be the scale at which it enables innovative new applications. Much of 5G will be invisible to the average consumer, working in the background, in factories and fields, in vehicles and sensors, in machines and monitors. And 5G won’t be doing this alone, Wi-Fi will continue to play a critical role.   In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio we’ll discuss the current state of 5G, the archit

Adding learning capabilities to the internet will increase the overall network SLO and application experience. Real data driven experiments have shown that such an approach will complement the reactive approach that has governed the internet for the past four decades. Various statistical and ML driven models have shown the possibility to predict future events and take proactive actions for short-term and long-term predictions with high accuracy, avoiding a high number of failures that would significantly impact user experience.  Tune in to this episode to learn more about the path towards a predictive internet and how—coupled with autonomous networks (i.e., self-learning/healing networks)—this approach could be one of the most impactful technologies for the internet. Learn more: https://ciscotechblog.com/blog/towards-a-predictive-internet/?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Follow us: twitter.com/CiscoChampion  Cisco Champion Hosts: Dan Kelcher, Sleep Number, Senior Network Engineer Mark Sibering (twitter.com/n

In this episode, Cisco Champions draw from their experiences to share some of the craziest technical setups they’ve encountered—from the weirdest AP configurations to the oddest design decisions. Their recollections are sure to make you scratch your heads.  Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion Cisco Champion Hosts:  Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, Business Development Manager and Solution Architect Ben Story (twitter.com/ntwrk80), Redeye Network Solutions, Sr. Network Security Engineer Dan Kelcher, Sleep Number, Senior Network Engineer Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo, CTO and Network Archeologist Guest:  Denise Donahue (twitter.com/LadyNetwkr), Cisco, Systems Architect  Moderator:  Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Customer Voices and Cisco Champion Program

In our last DevNet Specialization episode (i.e., S7|E44), we introduced DevNet Specialization—a program that recognizes Cisco partners who have built business practices around software programmability and automation. We also heard three Cisco partners discuss their experiences pursuing their DevNet Specialization. In this follow-up session, we check back to hear what they’ve been up to and how they’ve leveraged their developer capabilities to help their customers solve their business problems. Learn more: https://developer.cisco.com/partner/specialization/?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Follow us: https://twitter.com/ciscochampion   Cisco Champion Hosts: Paul Giblin (twitter.com/dreamlessod), Presidio, Distinguished Engineer Matyáš Prokop (twitter.com/maty0609), Natilik, Principal Architect Ryan Wolfe (twitter.com/somewolfe), Iron Bow Technologies, Programmability Architect Guest:  Chuck Stickney (twitter.com/chuckstickney), Cisco, Business Development Leader, Cisco DevNet Moderator:  Amilee San Juan (tw

From seamless Wi-Fi onboarding to differentiated loyalty experiences, Cisco DNA Spaces offers a range of solutions to tackle Wi-Fi onboarding challenges and provide modernized customer experiences. These solutions increase customer insight while alleviating challenges of MAC randomization. In this episode of Cisco Champions Radio, we’ll discuss ways that cisco DNA Spaces can help you: • Seamlessly connect guests to a secure OpenRoaming SSID across multiple locations • Enable automatic handoff between cellular and Wi-Fi to improve indoor carrier connectivity • Create differentiated experiences for loyalty members through app notifications and captive portals Learn more: www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/…dtid=opdcsnc001469 Follow us: twitter.com/ciscochampion Cisco Champion Hosts: Dan Kelcher, Sleep Number, Senior Network Engineer Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services Guest: Rishi Bhammar, Cisco, Senior Product Manager Moderator: Amilee San Juan (twitte

Nearly every day we can read about “ransomware” holding another organization’s data hostage, shutting their operations down, or disrupting their supply chain. Commercial enterprises, major utilities, large healthcare providers, processing facilities—even small businesses aren’t safe from being the target of these attacks. The key to preventing your organization from falling prey to ransomware is to keep several steps ahead of hackers. In many cases, the tools you need to protect your data are already available in your network. With the recent introduction of Continuous Trusted Access and the new Cisco Trust Analytics you can now secure your network from several potential attack vectors. Trust Analytics is part of Cisco SD-Access, Cisco’s best-of-breed Zero Trust solution for the workplace. Trust Analytics detects traffic from endpoints that are exhibiting unusual behavior by pretending to be trusted endpoints using MAC Spoofing, Probe Spoofing, or Man-in-the-Middle techniques. Learn more: https://