Accessing the Cloud

Cisco SD-WAN Policies Introduction

I want to share with you a summary of the key points in SD-WAN Policies, their definition and implementation, to build a flexible and adaptable architecture to the needs of end-users and applications.

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Becoming a CCIE: What I have learnt

I would like to share my experience of becoming CCIE Routing and Switching v5 certified. It is kind of a “tradition” to do it and I think it can be very helpful to other people pursuing the same goal. Different points of view were very positive for me to get well prepared technically and psychologically for the day of the exam.

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Software Defined Networks and Security

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a network architecture that simplifies network management and enables innovation in communication networks. SDN decouples the control and data planes; the control plane is logically centralized and makes the decisions that the data plane implements: the network becomes “programmable”. This separation of the control and data planes in SDN opens security challenges, such as man-in-the middle attacks, denial of service (DoS) attacks, and saturation attacks.

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Setting up Remote Access VPN for Firepower Threat Defense

Remote Access VPN (RA VPN) is available in Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) 6.2.1 for 2100 Platforms. For all other Platforms it will be supported on version 6.2.2.

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Wannacry and NHS Lothian

I was reading the Spanish news when I first heard about Telefonica being attacked by an unknown ramsonware. The situation seemed to be quite critical, according to the news this malware was able to spread quite easily and some Telefonica’s customers apparently were impacted as well.

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