Security APIs

Like programming best practices, growing your organization’s use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) comes with its own complexities. This blog post will highlight three best practices for ensuring an effective and efficient codebase. Additionally, a few notable examples from Cisco DevNet a…

Find documentation, code examples, and a strong community of fellow API developers eager to help When it comes to working with a new API or technology, the learning experience provided by the vendor can have a significant impact on the success of their customers. Having worked with dozens of differe…

We live in a world with a rapidly evolving threat landscape, where adversaries are employing sophisticated techniques, exploiting the dynamic nature of IT infrastructure and launching asymmetrical attacks. Next week at Cisco Live there is a session in which you can learn how to leverage Cisco’s inte…

With the ever increasing demands of today’s IT environments, the complexity of security and incident management can easily get out of hand. Security, like every other area of innovation, needs to be smart, automated, and pro-active in order to meet the demands of the business and defend agains…

Effective security is simple, open, and automated.  In the last blog, I described several efforts by Cisco to pursue simplicity.  Now let’s talk about how we are executing on the open part. Openness is about playing well with others. As a kid I heard it from my parents, and now I find myself saying…