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    SASE Visibility with Cisco ThousandEyes The following post discusses SASE visibility for the Cisco SASE solution, known as Cisco Umbrella SASE with Cisco ThousandEyes. Combining Cisco ThousandEyes with your SASE VPN gives you end-to-end visibility into the SASE security stacks and all network paths, including any nodes. All …

    SD WAN Security This post will address Cisco SD WAN security for the control plane elements, data plane forwarding, and the integrated SD-WAN security features that can be used for Direct Internet Access (DIA). Keep in mind that SD-WAN can be integrated with Cisco Umbrella via a series …

    SD-WAN SASE Although more and more enterprises are moving workloads and applications to the cloud, we also need to consider the secure and fast connection to the Internet with minimal latency and packet loss to affect application performance. The following post discusses SD-WAN SASE and how to start your security SASE journey. …

    SASE | SASE Solution In this post, we will decompose the Zero Trust SASE, considering the SASE fabric and what a SASE solution entails. The SASE security consists of global PoPs. With network and security functions built into each PoP operated with a single management plane. This post …

    Security Automation If you are only using scripting in the security automation world, it will only get you so far. Eventually, you will need a fully integrated platform with your security and network infrastructure. For secure automation, there are different types of platforms you can use. This post …

    Splunk Security  The product set offering Splunk Security has several well-integrated products, such as Splunk Enterprise Security, also known as Splunk ES, which is the Splunk SIEM, Splunk SOAR, and User Behavior Analytics (UBA), to a variety of Observability tools at your disposal. In addition, SOAR Splunk brings …

    Cisco Umbrella CASB We must opt for a platform approach to visibility and control. More specifically, a platform that works in a 3rd party environment. So for cloud security, this is where secure access service edge (SASE) can assist. In particular, the Cisco version is SASE, known as …

    DNS Security Solutions This post will outline the domain name system: the DNS structure, the vulnerabilities and abuses of DNS security designs, and guidance on implementing DNS protection with examples of DNS security solutions with DNS security Cisco such as Cisco Umbrella DNS. Like many Internet protocols, the …

    Ansible Tower To operationalize your environment and drive automation to production, you need to have everything centrally managed and better role-based access. So you understand who is automating and what they are doing, along with a good audit trail. This is where Red Hat Ansible and Ansible Tower …

    Network Visibility The traditional network visibility tools give you the foundational data to see what’s going on in your network. Network visibility solutions are not new, and the network visibility tools such as NetFlow and IPFIX have been around for a while. However, they give you an incomplete …

    WAN Monitoring By examining performance parameters, SD-WAN can classify, select, and switch traffic paths across your WAN. Now we have reactive rerouting and load balancing that will help improve network availability and performance. But to gain the benefits, one needs to consider operationalizing SD WAN visibility and whether …

    Implementing Network Security Having the appropriate network visibility is key to understanding network performance and implementing network security components. Now, much of the technology used in the network performance world, such as Netflow, is very much security-focused. There is a challenging landscape, we have workloads moving to the …