Cisco Champion Radio

A critical component of any zero-trust strategy is securing the workplace that everyone and everything connects to. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) enables a dynamic and automated approach to policy enforcement that simplifies the delivery of highly secure network access control. ISE empowers software-defined access and automates network segmentation within IT and OT environments.   Join us as Chris O’Rourke, Cisco Senior Director, and Cisco Champions take a deep dive into the recent ISE 3.0 release, while covering cloud transitions, going agentless for compliance and AI and machine learning's practical use to identify all network endpoints within the zero-trust workplace.    Learn more:  (AAG) http://cs.co/9005H6JFV (Blog) http://cs.co/9008H6J2g  Cisco Champion Hosts:  Dan Sheldon, World Wide Technology, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer Pieter-Jan Nefkens (twitter.com/pjnef), Nefkens Advies, Network Consultant Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director of Network Ser

Design thinking is a framework and methodology for creative problem-solving. It helps define problems, design solutions, test and deliver. It can be used by any business or function to achieve extraordinary results.   Tune into this episode to learn more about Cisco Design Thinking principles. Hear how Cisco applies Design Thinking in real-world scenarios and projects with partners and customers to accelerate innovation and product development. You can also get tips and best practices on how to get started with Design Thinking in your team and organization. Learn more: https://developer.cisco.com/site/designthinking/?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Join the Cisco DevNet Design Thinking Community on Webex Teams: https://eurl.io/#OMLM8kGx-   Cisco Champion Hosts: Jose Bogarin (twitter.com/josebogarin), Altus Consulting Costa Rica, Chief Innovation Officer Matyas Prokop (twitter.com/maty0609), Natilik, Principal Architect  Paul Giblin (twitter.com/dreamlessod), Presidio, Distinguished Engineer/ Enterprise Architect 

The changing global environment has transformed how enterprise users connect to applications. The SASE architecture delivers important networking and security capabilities to deliver a seamless application experience—irrespective of whether the user is in the office, at home or in a remote location. The core elements of the SASE architecture are built on a converged SD-WAN and cloud security. Cisco SD-WAN integration with Umbrella delivers end to end networking and security capabilities to address these important cloud transformations for the enterprise.  Tune into this episode to learn more about SASE and Secure SD-WAN architecture.  Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/what-is-sase-secure-access-service-edge.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469  Cisco Champion Hosts: Daniel Dib (twitter.com/danieldibswe), Conscia Sverige, Senior Network Architect  Daniel Sheldon, World Wide Technology, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer  Guests:  Eric Trolan (twitter.com/etrolan), Cisco, Techni

We have entered an era where the way people work is forever changed. With a large portion of the world continuing to work from home, many are wondering how the workplace will evolve as the doors open again.   Join us to see how Cisco Webex is transforming the way you operate, respond to change and reimagine how people work together.  From the personal office to the boardroom, learn how Cisco Webex is using automation, AI, sensors, and analytics help to remove friction points throughout the day, provide intelligent alerts and drive changes that will keep workers safe and productive. IT, facilities and HR managers can gain a deeper understanding of environmental conditions and usage to drive workplace optimization and improve employee experience while supporting the unique needs of a hybrid workplace.  Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/hybrid-workplace.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469     Cisco Champion Hosts: Amr Nasher (twitter.com/Amr_Nasher), Twaasol, Business Development Mana

Cisco Managed Detection and Response (MDR) can reduce the mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond to threats from months to hours. MDR combines an elite team of researchers, investigators, and responders with threat intelligence, automation and response capabilities, and defined investigation and response playbooks supported by Cisco Talos® threat research.   Tune into this episode to learn:  Why and how the security market has evolved, leading to the need for Managed Detection and Response services, How Cisco’s MDR offer helps keep your assets safe, How Cisco’s MDR solution is differentiated from others in the market, How Cisco MDR leverages other Cisco security products   Learn more: www.cisco.com/go/MDR?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Cisco Champion Hosts:  Evan Mintzer, (twitter.com/evanmintzer), Ashfield, Information Security Manager  Mir Hossein, (twitter.com/packetroute), Itron, Inc., Principal Cloud & Network Security Engineer  Sebastian Leuser, (twitter.com/sleuser), Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions G

Today, organizations are facing changes so large, so fast, and so many—seeing acceleration of already established trends as well as unprecedented disruption—that’s making their business models highly vulnerable, or more acutely, at risk of extinction. Tune in to this episode to hear from Cisco CTO, Stephen Smith, and Cisco Champions as they discuss the changes to the way we work today.  And the importance of empowering the workforce to collaborate and get work done from anywhere and ensuring workplaces are always trusted environments.    From flexible remote access to proximity reporting and social density automation; To extending security and performance to remote workers; To asset and facility monitoring for industrial environments.  Hear how Cisco can help organizations rise to new levels of business resiliency with solutions built for change at any scale across the organization, its technology investments and its industry landscape Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/business-resiliency.html?dti

What better way to kick off the 2020 IT Blog Awards season than to bring together technical bloggers, vloggers and podcasters to share their unique experiences? In this episode, you'll gain insights into what inspired some of our Cisco Champion bloggers, vloggers and podcasters to pursue their craft; what challenges they faced (and overcame); and some of the amazing outcomes of pursuing their passion and sharing their unique insights and perspectives. (The IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco, is accepting submissions through October 16, 2020. Apply today.) Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/events-webinars/influencer-hub/blog-awards.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Aaron Weiler (twitter.com/aaronengineered), Comcast, Sales Engineer Daren Fulwell (twitter.com/darenfulwell), IP Fabric, Network Automation Evangelist Deirra Footman (twitter.com/ccieby30), 14 West, Senior Network Engineer Kevin Blackburn (twitter.com/theroutingtable), Aultman Hospital, Director of Ne

From low data rate wireless, such as low-power-wide area technologies that are designed for small devices running on batteries, to the emergence of high data rate wireless technologies, such as 5G, and Wi-Fi 6, decision makers and network experts face a broad choice of wireless technologies. But when it comes too industrial wireless technologies, one size doesn't fit all. Tune into this episode and discover several important criteria and methodologies to consider when selecting industrial wireless technologies to meet connectivity objectives. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/internet-of-things/iot-network-connectivity.html#~stickynav=2?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Gert-Jan de Boer (twitter.com/gjdeboer), aaZoo Network Solutions, Networking Archaeologist Jonathan Mahady (twitter.com/jonathan_mahady), BHP, Senior PCN Network Engineer Guest: Patrick Grossetete (twitter.com/pgrossetete), Cisco, Distinguished Engineer for Cisco IoT Moderator: Lauren Friedman (

IT organizations that get the most out of their technology investments tend to grow faster than their peers. As a result, they are always exploring enhancements to existing products that can improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. Listen in as Cisco Champions sit down with the Cisco expert to discuss using HyperFlex as an iSCSI target to address block storage use cases, such as externalized LUNs for Oracle or shared LUNs for Windows failover clusters—or for baremetal, virtualized or containerized applications. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/index.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Joseph Houghes (twitter.com/jhoughes), Veam Software, Solutions Architect Dan Kelcher, NTT DATA Services, Enterprise Architecture Adviser Michael Rhoades (twitter.com/ciscomikey), North American Hoganas, Manager Information Technology Guest: Ronnie Chan (twitter.com/ronnielchan), Cisco, Product Manager Engineer Moderator: Amilee San Juan (twitter.co

The IT landscape has become exponentially complex due to rising consumer demand and the insatiable appetite for an always-on environment. We need a simplified way to automate, orchestrate, and secure the infrastructure while leveraging analytics and policy-based models that deliver the best application experience. However, operationalizing multiple domains (e.g. cloud, campus, etc.) is challenging due to heightened network complexity, escalating costs, and the skills gap. Cisco is focused on driving an Intent-based networking strategy, delivering validated multi-domain solutions to help customers accelerate time to market.  Tune in to learn from the experiences gained, working with Enterprise and Service Provider customers that has shaped Cisco’s multi-domain strategy, automation frameworks and use cases that remove complexity to deliver an agile infrastructure.  Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/customer-experience/automation.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts:  Bruno Wollmann

Cisco Ultra Cloud 5G Core solution is an evolutionary jump delivering advanced 5G features, automation, higher resiliency and deployment simplicity into the Service Provider networks. Tune in as we discuss the new 5G SA Core architecture and associated 5G capabilities (i.e., Slicing, Service Based Architecture, Security) required to deliver new enhanced use cases. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/service-provider/5g-transformation.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Aaron Weiler (twitter.com/aaronengineered), Comcast, Sales Engineer Josh Warcop (twitter.com/Warcop), Byteworks, Engineer Guests: Eric Hamel, Cisco, Sales Specialist Moderator: Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program

Configuring and maintaining access policies in a network is a challenge. In our increasingly complex and dynamic networks, IP policies are not meeting the needs of many administrators. Access policies need to evolve from static IP based to intent based. Creating policy should be as simple as defining intent, “who” needs to access “what” regardless of where they connect in the network. With that idea as a backdrop, Meraki is introducing Adaptive Policy, an easy to configure, simple to maintain, scalable policy powered by Secure Group Tags (SGTs).  Listen in as Cisco Champions and Cisco experts discuss Adaptive Policy and how it lets businesses create intent based policy for users, services and devices based on who you are, not where you connect in the network.   Learn more: https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars/adaptive-policy-set-once-secure-forever/?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Cisco Champion Hosts: Meredith Rose (twitter.com/mer3dithrose), WWT, Senior Consulting Systems Engineer  Aaron Weiler (twitter.com/aaron

As organizations increasingly introduce machine learning (ML) capabilities to their existing products, their artificial intelligence (AI) projects and operations complexity grows.  As a result, they rapidly face challenges in managing complex ML workloads. MLOps is a growing field that addresses these challenges. But what is MLOps and how does Cisco support their customers by contributing to Kubeflow? Listen in as Cisco Champions sit down with Cisco experts to discuss these challenges in Machine Learning operations and how Cisco has enabled solutions to help customers bridge the gaps in MLOPs and manage complex ML workloads with UCS and Kubeflow.  Learn more: https://developer.cisco.com/kubeflow/?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Daren Fulwell (twitter.com/darenfulwell), ANS Group, Technical Architect Pieter-Jan Nefkens (twitter.com/pjnef), Nefkens Advies, Network Consultant Guests:  Debo Dutta (twitter.com/dedutta), Cisco, Distinguished Engineer Elvira Dzhuraeva (twitter.com/elvirafort

Cisco is on a journey to making networking smarter with artificial intelligence and machine learning. The latest stop in this journey, Cisco AI Endpoint Analytics, helps identify, profile, and group previously unknown endpoints in the network, increasing visibility and enhancing security. Listen in as the discussion covers the value of AI and ML in the first part of a two-part series.  Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/artificial-intelligence.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469   Cisco Champion Hosts:  Pieter-Jan Nefkens (twitter.com/pjnef), Nefkens Advies, Network Consultant/ Owner   Shai Silberman (twitter.com/shaidom), San Jose State University, Director, Network Services  Guests:   JP Vasseur (twitter.com/jpvasseur), Cisco, Cisco Fellow  Moderator:    Amilee San Juan (twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champion Program      

As many people shifted to remote work over the past couple of months, due to the global pandemic, the world discovered that work can be accomplished from anywhere. Now, with more than 70% of companies planning to shift to remote work permanently, new questions are surfacing around how to prepare a workforce to be successful in the “new normal.” With Lorrissa’s unique experience in managing a distributed workforce of over 500 people around the world, and given her leadership role with Webex, she is uniquely positioned to share industry knowledge and hands-on experience around effective strategies to build and manage remote teams for long-term success. During this podcast, she goes deeper on 3 critical capabilities: 1) Cultural Transformation  2) Technology planning and adoption  3) Enterprise-grade Security The discussion also includes how other industries, like Healthcare, are re-imagining what’s possible with technology and virtual patient experiences. A broader transformation that is occurring with the n

43% of IT time is spent troubleshooting. Decoding wireless issues, application performance problems, and fixing misconfigurations are challenging problems to remediate. This discussion covers new assurance and troubleshooting capabilities for cloud-managed Cisco Meraki networks. Topics include leveraging ML to pinpoint SaaS performance problems and using the newly released ‘Meraki Health’ to reduce troubleshooting from hours to minutes. Learn more: https://meraki.cisco.com/?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Ben Story (https://twitter.com/ntwrk80), Hospital Sisters Health System, Sr. Network Engineer Jason D’Silva (https://twitter.com/jdsilva), Shaw Communications, Sr. Network Architect Guests: David van Schravendijk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davevan/), Cisco, Product Marketing Manager Nikitha Panasamudra Shashidhar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitha-p-s-4374a549/), Cisco, Technical Marketing Engineer Moderator: Amilee San Juan (https://twitter.com/amileesan1), Cisco, Technical Influ

Securing your organization is becoming increasingly complex. It may seem faster to tack on new point products to address the latest attack or protect yet another threat vector. But this multi-console approach is tedious and error-prone, which you don’t have time for. In this episode, we reunite with Ben Greenbaum, Technical Marketing Engineer, and Cisco Champions, Evan Mintzer and Ben Story, to talk about the new SecureX platform built into the Cisco Secure portfolio. You’ll hear how Cisco’s Threat Response, Orchestration, Dashboard, and Integrations capabilities provide simplicity, visibility, and efficiency to your security experience. Learn more: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/securex/index.html?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Evan Mintzer (https://twitter.com/evanmintzer), Ashfield Healthcare, Manager Information Security Ben Story (https://twitter.com/ntwrk80), Hospital Sisters Health System, Sr. Network Engineer Guest: Ben Greenbaum (https://twitter.com/secintsight), Cis

As organizations have had to rapidly respond and transition in the face of swift change, Cisco VDI solutions have enabled businesses to empower their workforce to work remotely with ease. In this episode, we sit down with Bryan Hilton, Cisco Technical Solutions Architect and Cisco Champions, Michael Rhoades and Meredith Rose, to discuss how running Cisco HyperFlex in the data center, managed by Intersight, can ease migration of an entire workforce to work remotely in just 24 hours. For more information on Cisco VDI, visit: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/desktop-virtualization/index.html?dtid=osscdc000283?dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion Hosts: Michael Rhoades (https://twitter.com/ciscomikey), North American Hoganas, IT Manager Meredith Rose (https://twitter.com/mer3dithrose), World Wide Technology, Consulting System Engineer Guest: Bryan Hilton (https://twitter.com/VDI_geek), Cisco, Technical Solutions Architect Moderator: Amilee San Juan (https://twitter.com/a

In this episode of Cisco Champion Radio, you'll hear from Cisco spectrum and policy expert, Mary Brown as well as Cisco Wireless CTO, Matt MacPherson, along with Cisco Champion hosts Sam Clements of Presidio and Shai Silberman from San Jose State University. In April of this year, the FCC opened the 6 GHz spectrum for unlicensed use. When devices hit the market in the next couple of years, they will allow consumers and businesses to take full advantage of the next generation of wireless technology. This means better video and mixed reality for virtual interactions, more connected devices in healthcare and manufacturing, a more productive and agile remote workforce, and lots more. Join this important conversation to hear from five passionate experts as they discuss topics ranging from working with the FCC and how we'll take advantage of this new spectrum to how it all works, what it means for the enterprise, wireless security, and more. For more information on 6GHZ and Mary Brown's work with the FCC, check

In this episode of Cisco Champions Radio, our Cisco Champions talk to Cisco’s Wireless Product Manager, Ankur Bhasin, about Wireless Resiliency, as in no longer waiting for scheduled down-time to deploy new Access Points or software updates. The discussion also covers the new Cisco DNA Center feature, User Defined Network (UDN), for use cases like dormitories or long-term hospital stays; as well as other Wireless resiliency topics. www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/w…dtid=opdcsnc001469 Cisco Champion hosts Dan Kelcher, NTT Data Services, Enterprise Architecture Advisor Samuel Clements (twitter.com/samuel_clements), Presidio, Engineering Director, Office of the CTO, Mobility Guest Ankur Bhasin, Cisco, Wireless Product Line Manager Moderator Lauren Friedman (twitter.com/lauren), Technical Influencer Marketing and Cisco Champions Program