automation

Network Automation Update – the Maturing of NFV Deployment

We at Cisco have been delivering network orchestration and automation products for a number of years now. Our customers have deployed Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) with NFV Orchestration (NFVO) and Elastic Services Controller (ESC) to orchestrate physical and virtual network in productio…

Collaboration for the Digital Age

A digital workforce transformation starts with a great meeting experience. It extends to connecting people, content, and ideas intuitively and securely so individuals and teams produce their best work all the time, with no compromises. Cisco makes working together easy — intuitive. With our collabor…

May 9, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered: The Automation Episode, feat. Alex Peay and Mike Place

What’s the automation situation at your company? Do you feel like you guys have a handle on it? Like you’re automating the right things and using the right tools? Like you know what you want to automate next? I’m guessing that you probably do, but even so, I encourage you to tune in to this week’s e…

Imagine What’s Possible in a 5G World

Stop where you are and consider this: there’s a colossal chance you’re reading this text on your mobile phone. Are you? Maybe not, but probably so. However, even if you’re not reading this text on your phone, statistics suggest you’ve read an article or a blog or some other web-based text on your mo…

April 25, 2018

DEVELOPER

Render your first network configuration template using Python and Jinja2

We all know how painful it is to enter the same text in to the CLI, to program the same network VLANs, over, and over, and over and over, and over…. We also know a better way that exists, with network programmability, but this solution could be a few years out before your company adopts the newest n…

April 19, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Updates for BASS

This blog post was authored by Jonas Zaddach and Mariano Graziano. Cisco Talos has rolled out a series of improvements to the BASS open-source framework aimed at speeding up its ability to provide coverage for new malware families. Talos released BASS, (pronounced “bæs”) an open-source f…

April 17, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

It’s Time to Get Your ‘Data Style’ On!

When we talk about our own personal style we usually mean our preferences. And we often base that style on our goals. For example, the clothes we wear. The way we talk. How we spend our free time. Our style is also influenced by a number of channels—media, family, friends. But what channel should we…

April 13, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Malware monitor – leveraging PyREBox for malware analysis

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte Pedrero In July 2017 we released PyREBox, a Python Scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox as an open source tool. This project is part of our continuous effort to create new tools to improve our workflows. PyREBox is a versatile instrumentation framework based…

Cisco Crosswork – Part 1: Change Automation

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand its comprehensive approach in enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…