Tom and Sal come on to discuss the 2 day event Cisco ran called WebexOne and all the cool announcements that were made. From innovative software announcements to cool new hardware, WebexOne was packed with informaition. We break down all of the announcements that is making Webex meetings 10x better than in -person. Links on our website - www.conft.show

Mike Lavallee from Cisco Meraki joins us on this episode to discuss what Meraki is doing to address physical security and environmental monitoring for businesses and IT infrastructure. We dive into the features and benefits of the Meraki MV Camera lineup including the progression of hardware and software capabilities. Then in the second half we discuss Meraki's latest hardware announcement, their MT line of environmental sensors affectionately called Meraki Things.

Special guest Andrew Struzik, Sr director of IT Operations and Cyber Security  at LLS comes on the show to talk about the various changes their non-for-profit went through with Covid and what made them decide to go with Cisco's Security EA. Links available on our website, www.conft.show.

Bryan and Brian sit down with Shaun Dolan and Devin Adair to discuss App Dynamics. Everything from its components, strengths, integrations and use cases is covered on this in-depth episode. Be sure to check out the links for more information. Links can be found at our website, www.conft.show

Joe Piperata joins us again for another great data center conversation around day 2 operations for data center fabrics. We also have a great conversation around ACI and the various tools Cisco has to offer that can greatly reduce your management operations and ensure your security posture is being correctly applied.

Co-founders and brothers Cosimo and Umberto Malesci join us to tell the story about how Fluidmesh started and what it brings to Cisco. From humble beginnings in MIT to the recently closed Cisco acquisition, Cosimo and Umberto share their experiences with how they started from a failed MIT competition to ground-breaking technologies within the rail and IoT systems. Links at www.conft.show

Jamey Heary joins us on this very special episode to discuss Cisco's latest security project, SecureX. Building on our previous episode's conversation around automation and API integration, SecureX ties together the various Cisco and Third-Party security products and tools into an easy to use, intuitive interface that empowers your IT team to discover, remediate and automate their security posture. Links: SecureX Landing Page: www.cisco.com/go/securex Security Portal: security.cisco.com

Susie Wee, SVP of Cisco DevNet joins us for a great interview about the history and future of Cisco DevNet. Links at www.conft.show

On May 28, 2020, Cisco announced it's intent to acquire ThousandEyes. On this episode, we speak with a fellow Cisco SE who was a heavy user of ThousandEyes in his previous role and go over its uses, methods and how it can offer additional visibility of network performance beyond the LAN. As an added bonus, we had the privilege of featuring "Old Town Network" at the end of the episode performed by Mike Schultz and his team's group called "Layer8". Links available at www.conft.show

Bryan and Brian sit down with Meraki PSS, Ryan Harami to discuss the latest Meraki developments and the launch of the Meraki Adaptive Policy.

In this episode we sit down with two colleagues from our Viptella team to discuss the evolution of Cisco's SD-WAN offerings as well as provide competitive insight, product updates and a peek behind the curtain of what is coming next from the Viptela engineers. Links can be found at https://conft.show

Bryan and Brian sit down with Ralph Schmieder, Technical Lead at Cisco to discuss the latest release of CML2, previously known as VIRL. Ralph shared valuable insight into the history and future of CML. Links at https://www.conft.show

Special guest Bruce McDougall Joins Bryan in this episode to discuss Segment Routing and IPv6 within the Service Provider and Cloud Computing space. Links at http://conft.show

On this episode, special guest Vaughn Suazo speaks with us about the different technologies and operations that our customers within the service provider space work with. In this rare peak behind the curtain, we get to see what Cisco is doing to help our customers in a world that is becoming ever reliant on cloud services.  Links at conft.show

On this episode of Conf T, we being back special guest Shaun Furey to discuss the latest additions to the Cisco Umbrella product stack to keep your users safe and policies enforced. Links available at our website at www.conft.show

We speak with Chris Pratt about his personal journey to achieving the CCIE certification. Full show notes available on our website at https://conft.show

Bryan sits down for a conversation with Nigel Houghton from the Talos organization to discuss the finer points of protecting the largest threat intelligence organization in the world against itself and adversaries alike. We discuss the various shortcomings and concerns when it comes to securing an organization in this modern day environment as well as taking a look back to simpler times. Be sure and listen to Nigel on the "Beers with Talos" podcast available wherever fine podcasts are sold.

Bryan and Brian sit down with Karl Lewis from the Duo team to discuss the finer points of Multi-Factor Authentication and why its such an important thing to have. They also explore the concept of Zero trust, and look of some of the competitive differences between Duo and other MFA providers. Show notes at https://conft.libsyn.com

Bryan and Brian sit down with Joe Piperata to chat about Cisco's Backup and Recovery Solutions. Links at www.ConfT.show

Bryan and Brian chat with Joe Piperata about the Cisco UCS platform and all the benefits and differentiators that Cisco brings to the table, mainly around the management features. We also touch on intersight and why it's a no-brainer to sign up for. Cisco UCS - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/index.html Cisco Intersight - https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/intersight/index.html

Bryan sits down with Craig Williams and Sean Mason from Cisco Talos to discuss everything from their outreach program, to incident response and everything in between. Sean and Craig give us a peek behind the curtain of the largest private security research firm in the world and lets us in on some of the lessons learned. Links at www.conft.show

On this episode, we sit down with Technical Solutions Architect Clarke Caporale to discuss what Cisco is doing to protect our customer from the largest attack vector, e-mail. We discuss the various forms that an email attack can take as well as technical and even non-technical ways they can be approached.

On this episode, we sit down with Katelyn Cadoff from the Services team where we discuss Cisco CX (Customer Experience) and the breadth of services options from Cisco. From adoption to implementation, we learn how the CX "Racetrack" is used and where customers can benefit the most from what the CX team has to offer. Links at www.conft.show

Join Bryan and Brian as they explore the non-technical side of Cisco and dive into the culture that makes Cisco such a great company to work for. Links: 5G Rural First: https://www.5gruralfirst.org Cisco Innovation Team: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/innovation-centers.html Cisco Tactical Operations: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/supply-chain-sustainability/tactical-operations-tacops.html

Join Bryan Young and Brian Boyd as they recount some of the moments and technologies that stood out to them at Cisco Impact 2019 in Las Vegas. The boys go over some of the impressive technology and solutions that Cisco has to offer in the IoT space as well as security as they hear from product specialists in the following areas. Extended Enterprise Edge Computing Industrial Routing LoRa (Long Range) WAN IoT Security Cisco Vision Duo Firepower Talos