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What is Stopping your Organization from Reaching Zero Trust?

Peter Drucker, the management guru who has been described as “the founder of modern management,” is often credited with the quote “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” When it comes to [...]

DNAC Tour, Part 7: Exploring SDA Provisioning Part 2: Fabric Deployment

This is the seventh in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour [...]

DNAC Tour Part 6: Exploring SDA Fabric Provisioning, Part 1: VRFs (VNs), GBACLs, And SGTs

This is the sixth in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour [...]

DNAC Tour, Part 5: Using DNAC: Design, Inventory, Swim

This is the fifth in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour [...]

Is Network Automation Essential for Network Security?

If your business is not using network automation, there’s a good chance that there’s a security vulnerability lurking in your network. Remember the T-Mobile data breach? It started through an [...]

DNAC Tour Part 4: Getting Started Tasks (Overview): Discovery, PNP, Templates, Provisioning

This is the fourth in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour [...]

DNAC Tour Part 3: General Navigation and Highlights: Dashboard, Drill Down, Assurance and Troubleshooting

This is the third in a series of blogs, the DNAC Tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center DNAC Tour Part 2: [...]

DNAC Tour Part 2: DNAC Instant Demo: Beginning Your Tour

This is the second in a series of blogs, the DNAC Instant Demo tour. Prior blogs in this series: DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center In this [...]

DNAC Tour Part 1: Introduction to Cisco DNA Center

A previous blog I posted on LinkedIn mentioned virtual demos. It seems like it could be useful for me to provide some structure around the DNAC (DNA Center) instant demo, [...]

Solving “Impossible” IT Challenges: Slow Application Performance

You’ve heard it before: “The application is slow!” It’s impacting the business and is frustrating for employees. Both application and network teams say they can’t find problems in their respective [...]

The Changing Networking World

A previous blog discussed shortages of networking and especially security staff, along with some parts of the changing landscape. Other recent blogs considered shifts in Security from firewall / positional [...]

Staffing and Yet Another Security Product (YASP)

I have some observations about network and security staffing and especially security products, including what I think is happening in some or many sites. Having said that, I make no [...]