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January 18, 2018

DEVELOPER

Keen to Get Hands-on with ACI 3.0? Now You Can – In Minutes!

Been waiting to get your hands on the new ACI 3.0 release? Of course you have. And now you can – instantly! Here in DevNet we’ve just finished upgrading our ACI sandboxes to the latest release of ACI which offers you: Kubernetes support – import your kubernetes cluster as a VMM domain A…

January 8, 2018

DEVELOPER

Introducing the Network Programmability Video Course

One of the things I love about DevNet is our commitment and passion in helping our community of customers, partners, and Cisco employees rapidly learn and adopt the new skills and technologies that are fundamental in this new age of programmability and API driven everything.  We’ve long had Le…

January 4, 2018

DEVELOPER

NEW DevNet Sandbox! Play live with Istio on Kubernetes to manage your microservice mesh

Most of the development world is aware of the microservices and containerisation movement, given we’re now in 2018! When folks start working with microservices, they quickly realise that they proliferate fast. One application can contain a large number of microservices that all need to interact and…

October 3, 2017

DEVELOPER

New DevNet Blockchain Sandbox lets you get hands on with hyperledger coding

You’ve probably heard of blockchains by now – the relatively new technology underpinning a whole host of cryptocurrencies and distributed apps.  Blockchains promise exciting solution opportunities across a range of markets, from IoT and machine-to-machine communication, to healthcare, identity manag…

September 28, 2017

DEVELOPER

Developing Network Security in the DevNet Sandbox

A great part of working on the DevNet Sandbox team is the exposure to new Cisco technologies and integrations. Up until recently I had always worked with collaboration stuff. Call manager, Presence, Jabber, Contact Center etc. It’s always good to get out of your comfort zone though and that’s what I…

September 14, 2017

DEVELOPER

DevNet Sandbox Part 2: Making it Easy to Learn and Innovate

This blog is the second in a series of two, focussing on DevNet Sandbox and the awesome free access to Cisco and Open Source tech it provides all our DevNet users. In my Part 1 blog I explained how DevNet Sandbox provides great fast, on-demand access to a whole host of Cisco technology, third party…

August 28, 2017

DEVELOPER

DevNet Sandbox: Giving Developers Fast, Self-Service Access To Cisco Tech

This blog is the first in a series of blogs focusing on DevNet Sandbox and the awesome free access to Cisco and Open Source technologies it provides all our DevNet users. I’m a developer. I’m also somewhat an architect, manager and evangelist which makes life super fun, but pretty fast paced. For th…

February 23, 2017

SECURITY

Serenity Now! A better way to malware analysis.

Over the last half decade the term sandboxing has become so pervasive, many customers I speak to have forgotten what it’s for!  Sandboxing is a type of malware analysis – dynamic malware analysis to be exact. You execute a sample / file in a virtual environment and see what happens. There are numero…

February 10, 2017

SECURITY

Indicators of Compromise and where to find them

Indicators of Compromise (“IOC”) are used to suggest a system has been affected by some form of malware. An Indicator of Compromise can be anything from a file name to the behavior observed while malware is actively running on an infected system. Where do they look? Social media, new feeds, industry…