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Terraform expands into the extensive Cisco IOS XE programmability and automation ecosystem IOS XE’s vast, programmable feature set The Cisco IOS XE ecosystem is programmatically managed and supports a variety of tooling. This includes Ansible to YANG Suite, pyATS over NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNxI, and even with legacy CLIs. With the addition of the new Cisco IOS XE Terraform provider, we add an additional tool into the IOS XE configuration management toolbox. In the programmability lifecycle,…

The president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has denied a Ukrainian request that would have effectively cut the rest of the world off from Russian websites, as Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbor entered its seventh day. In an open letter sent on March 2 to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, ICANN’s Göran Marby said that the internet regulator has “globally agreed policies” that do not permit…

Summary As the Russia-led invasion intensifies, Ukraine is being attacked by bombs and bytes. Cisco is working around the clock on a global, company-wide effort to protect our customers there and ensure that nothing goes dark. Cisco Talos has taken the extraordinary step of directly operating security products 24/7 for critical customers in Ukraine while over 500 employees across Cisco have come together to assist in collecting open-source (public) intelligence. In critical Ukrainian networks, we…

Following Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to revoke Russia’s top-level domains (TLD), such as .ru, .рф, and .su be revoked along with the nation’s associated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. The request came from  Andrii Nabok, ICANN’s Ukrainian representative, and Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation. Now, ICANN has replied: No. The letter from Göran Marby, ICANN’s CEO and president, tried to soften…

Following Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to revoke Russia’s top-level domains (TLD), such as .ru, .рф, and .su be revoked along with the nation’s associated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. The request came from  Andrii Nabok, ICANN’s Ukrainian representative, and Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation. Now, ICANN has replied: No. The letter from Göran Marby, ICANN’s CEO and president, tried to soften…

By: Dolan Sullivan, Vice President of Federal at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. With sophisticated cyberattacks, such as ransomware and denial of service (DOS) persistently aimed at the public and private sectors being perpetrated by nation-state and rogue criminal actors, Federal IT teams are consistently dealing with a growing cybersecurity challenge: They must combat many forms of fraud and impersonation while protecting a vast amount of connected assets and sensitive data. Federal government agencies…

In part 1 of this blog series, we overviewed the different tools  that would be used as you go up the stack from infrastructure to application. In this blog, we will be provisioning our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and GitHub. First, we will set up our development environment with all the tools needed for this deployment. Then we will review our Terraform configuration files and Ansible playbooks in detail. As always,…

Many challenges lay ahead for financial services IT in 2022 and beyond.  Between delighting customers with the newest whiz-bang app feature and minimizing data breaches, they must also balance new regulatory requirements which, if not met, can result in costly fines and reputational damage.  At the end of 2021, a New York City headquartered, 220-year-old bank was fined over $200 million in regulatory fees due to insecure practices – namely employees using non-corporate or personal…

The only thing techies love more than creating acronyms is the chance to create even longer ones. Such is the case with wireless acronym MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), which got some additional letters with the release of MU-MIMO a few years ago. As wireless standards evolved from 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), new features were added to MU-MIMO as well to improve speeds and efficiency, specifically in the number of streams it…

The only thing techies love more than creating acronyms is the chance to create even longer ones. Such is the case with wireless acronym MIMO (multiple input, multiple output), which got some additional letters with the release of MU-MIMO a few years ago. As wireless standards evolved from 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) to 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), new features were added to MU-MIMO as well to improve speeds and efficiency, specifically in the number of streams it…