The Problem Here’s the situation – you have a group of users who work a hybrid schedule. One of the users, while working at home, gets malware from a compromised website. That malware-infected PC gets taken back to the office and put on the corporate network, whereupon the malware now can try and spread to […]
A powerful network monitoring solution that takes your troubleshooting up a notch. The Problem If you’re supporting a large remote workforce, you’ve had an executive call on Monday morning to say: “I joined a meeting over the weekend and audio quality was terrible. Can you make sure it doesn’t happen again?” Pre-pandemic, it may have […]
Scripting with Ansible and Python How to Find Rogue, Unmanaged Devices Client Issue A client came to us with a complicated global network environment of engineers, developers, and executives. They were facing the same issues that many larger companies with multiple IT departments and variable infrastructure face – non-uniformity, rogue devices, poor historical reporting, security […]
When looking at what the major risks are to the security and functionality of IT infrastructure, near the top is access to that infrastructure. Being able to ensure that only authorized devices and users can connect to the network is one of the most effective ways of protecting your infrastructure and data. Users who pick […]
Solving a persistent problem between two meeting clients The Problem A client recently came to us with an issue they were having with their suite of various models of Cisco Cloud registered Room Kit systems. Zoom and WebEx are both utilized for their meeting clients. They were able to use the one button to join […]
How Machine to Machine security differs from User to Machine Now that we’ve looked at user to machine security in the datacenter, it’s time to look at machine to machine security (also known as east-west security). The goals of machine to machine security are going to be quite different than user to machine security, and […]
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 […]
