One of the current trends in IT security that gets a lot of press and discussion is the idea of zero trust. Zero trust, however, is really a philosophy, not a plan of action. Specifically, zero trust is the philosophy that all IT resources, whether internal or external, should be treated as untrusted or even […]
For the first part of our explorations of the zero trust philosophy, we’re going to look at the datacenter. It’s All in the Flow When we look at the datacenter we have two types of traffic flows, each of which needs to be looked at from a security perspective. First is user to machine security. […]
A common topic of conversation with our Cisco Call Manager (“CUCM”) customers has been whether or not Microsoft Teams can act as a softphone for CUCM. The answer is … sort of. Let’s look at the process of getting this working. First and foremost, at the time of this writing, calling from CUCM to MS […]
Navigating RESTCONF for Cisco Network Engineers In both my personal education and in work projects, there’s been a slow but steady move into network automation. This document is written from the angle of a network engineer, and as such, the document approaches the topic from the angle of moving from the CLI to a true […]
