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Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

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Network Hacking Course Pairs with Cisco Modeling Labs

If you’ve ever been to Cisco Live and seen the booth with a display for you to pick locks, then you know about the Cisco Advanced Security Initiatives Group (ASIG). We are chartered with security testing and ethical hacking for all Cisco products and services, whether in the cloud or on-premises. Anything Cisco sells, we have a go at it and try to break it—finding vulnerabilities as early as possible—before it’s deployed on the internet…

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Exploring AAA and TACACS Configuration with Cisco Modeling Labs

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Exploring AAA and TACACS Configuration with Cisco Modeling Labs

I’ll admit to not having done a thorough verification. However, I’d still bet money that AAA/RBAC services are more frequently mentioned on Cisco certification blueprints than any other networking topic. From the CCNA to the Expert level, you’ll find AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS, and RBAC listed on the exam topics. Here is a handful of examples if you’d like to check it out yourself: 200-301 CCNA 2.8 Describe AP and WLC management access connections (Telnet, SSH,…

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How to Use Ansible with CML

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How to Use Ansible with CML

How can Ansible help people building simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)? Similar to Terraform, Ansible is a common, open-source automation tool often used in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) DevOps methodologies. They are both a type of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) or Infrastructure as Data that allow you to render your infrastructure as text files and control it using tools such as Git. The advantage is reproducibility, consistency, speed, and the knowledge that, when you…

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