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Tech Field Day, Networking & Security Field Days

In the following pages you’ll see videos where Cisco experts gave interactive, technical deep dive presentations and demos our new Industrial IoT routing portfolio and powerful new AI capabilities in the Cisco Meraki platform, the latest and highly scalable Cisco Nexus Dashboard and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights, and the ultra-secure Cisco DNA Center and Cisco SD-Access. We also dive into SecureX vs. industry trends, explore Cisco Threat Hunting, go into the newest offerings and advancements of Cisco SASE and Zero Trust, and we show how you can secure your Industrial Control Systems with Cyber Vision.

The live audience of delegates (on the following page) asked the technical questions our customers and partners are interested in learning more about. These delegates included industry influencers, bloggers, and podcasters where they discussed their objective thoughts and experiences with Cisco technology. Recordings can be found on the following pages.

Thank You To Our Delegates

Event Staff - Organizers at Gestalt IT

Tom Hollingsworth | @NetworkingNerd
Stephen Foskett | @SFoskett

Tech Field Day Delegates

Barry Coombs | @VirtualisedReal
Betty DuBois | @PacketDetective
Chris Hildebrandt | @ChrisMaki
Craig Rodgers | @CraigRodgersms
Denny Cherry | @MrDenny
Drew Lentz | @WirelessNerd
Evan Mintzer | @EvanMintzer
Keith Ward | @KeithWardWrite
Michael Davis | @Michael_Edavis
Paul Stringfellow | @TechStringy
Raff Poltronieri | @RaffaPol
Robert Novak | @Gallifreyan

Networking Field Day Delegates

A.J. Murray | @NoBlinkyBlinky
Darrel Clute | @DarrelClute
Drew Conry-Murray | @Drew_CM
Ed Horley | @Ehorley
Faisal Khan | @MFaisalK
Girard Kavelines | @Gkavelines
Jason Gintert | @BitsInFlight
Jody Lemoine | @GhostInTheNet
Josh Warcop | @Warcop
Pete Welcher | @pjwelcher
Tim Bertino | @TimBertino

Security Field Day Delegates

Ben Mason | @suidroot
Bruno Wollmann | @WollmannBruno
Edward Haletky | @Texiwill
Jasper Bongertz | @PacketJay
Justin Warren | @JPWarren
Karen Lopez | @DataChick
Kerstin Mende-Stief @Fraustief_in_IT
Mikael Korsgaard Jensen | @Jekomi
Rati Jokhadze | @PacketStack
Remington Loose | @LocalPref_Net
Scott Driver | @VTsnowboarder42
Tony Efantis | @ShowIPIntBRI

Cisco’s IoT Portfolio Rodeo

Matt Bolick, Technical Marketing Leader

Overview

Learn more about Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switching, Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul and innovations in wireless, Industrial Asset Vision, and Cisco's LoRaWAN Sensor Technology.

Highlighted Questions

(8:15) Why aren’t you moving to more of the fiber driven devices, and do you have any UPOE powered switches as opposed to DC powered switches?
(16:25) Are there any plans to support 60 Gigahertz, support Terragraph with Fluidmesh, or support 24 Gigahertz?
(28:33) Does it (Industrial Asset Vision) support other external LoRaWAN sensors?
(31:00) Traditionally these metal industrial environments haven’t been good for Wi-Fi deployments, have you put a lot of thought into design to make Wi-Fi work well?

Tech Field Day - IoT & Meraki

Unite the Edge with Industrial Routing

Matt Bolick, Technical Marketing Leader

Overview

Our expert dives into the technology behind the entirely new portfolio of hardened mission critical routing products.

Highlighted Questions

(10:18) From a WAN connectivity perspective, is there something in the PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) that can be swapped out in the future?
(15:44) Is the LTE on the Cisco Catalyst IR8300 for continuity perspective, for failover LTE for example? Is that type of routing supported in there for a multiple WAN architecture?
(16:56) Are there any plans for general purpose computing either with some of the compute modules or with the UCS E-Series Servers?
(19:07) Have you had any partners in the IP Camera space that have talked to you about integrating into your platforms for facial recognition, LPR, and similar edge analysis of their video feeds?
(23:25) Given its importance to edge computing and the consumer wave that’s coming, how far away are we from 5G being as common as 4G?
(26:15) You mentioned the ability to run Docker on those rugged routers, and possibly analytics at the edge, are there any partnerships happening so people can release apps for your routers?
(27:44) In regard to temperature rating and cooling, how hot can the ISR router get?

Highlighted Tweets: IoT

Meraki-Automated Root Cause Analysis You Can Trust

Sunmeel Bhumkar - Engineering Product Manager & Apurv Bhartia - Engineering Leader

Overview

Meraki Wireless and Machine Learning experts discuss how the Meraki platform leverages 23B weekly interactions on the network to provide useful, contextual, and trusted recommendations to alleviate problems across the network.

Highlighted Questions

(5:12) If you don’t have to take a packet capture at every point, what will you be doing?
(21:20) How long before it’s (RCA) autonomous?
(21: 28) How is this scaling out to the other Meraki devices through switching and routing?
(24:18) With the data you’re gathering and the intelligence that’s bringing, how much of that data can be used elsewhere?
(25:43) How configurable are the smart alerts (in the Meraki Dashboard)?

Related Blogs:

Meraki Pushes Proactive Troubleshooting at Tech Field Day by Keith Ward
Opening Cans of Worms at the Ultra Reliable Smart Edge by Drew Lentz

@VirtualisedReal Cisco Tech Field Day Doodles

Networking Field Day - Nexus Dashboard, DNA Center & SD-WAN

Highlighted Tweets: Meraki

Cisco Nexus Dashboard: One Platform for Hybrid Cloud Automation

Azeem Suleman, Product Management Director and Daniel Pita, Technical Marketing Engineer

Overview

Learn how Cisco Data Center Nexus Dashboard can bring together unified proactive operations, actionable insights that scale across hybrid cloud data center networks, is open to any fabric or domain, and empowers seamless native and fabric agnostic solutions.

Highlighted Questions

(19:45) Is this (One View) lighter weight than Cisco DNA Center in terms of frame works?
(22:15) Can you learn the B6 Gateway component automatically from the RA (router advertisement in IPv6)?

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights: IT Operations Made Simple

Karthik Thumula, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

Overview

Learn how to enable the automation necessary to deliver services faster, make changes with confidence, help network operations teams meet with agility, uptime, and security policy compliance requirements of modern Data Center Networks.

Highlighted Questions

(19:50) From that fault view, is there any contextual link out to a Cisco tech node or documentation explaining that note or what the fault is?
(24:00) In this workflow, doing the upgrade, is this augmenting or changing the workflow if I were doing this on the APIC (Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller) directly or is this triggering the event on the APIC?

Highlighted Tweets: Cisco Nexus Dashboard

Highlighted Tweets: Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights

Cisco DNA Center Compliance & Infrastructure-as-Code for Network Operations

Gabi Zapodeanu, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

Overview

Learn about the new innovations that enable Cisco DNA Center to better align with your existing NetOps and DevOps operations and practices.

Highlighted Questions

(7:38) How within DNA Center compliance can you write a “golden standard” type of configuration?
(16:40) Is this a configuration push from your NetDevOps environment to DNA Center?

Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) for Zero-Trust Workplace

Karthik Thumula, Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

Overview

Learn the key capabilities for Cisco Software-Defined Access: Endpoint Visibility, Network Segmentation, and Continuous Trust Monitoring.

Highlighted Questions

(9:22) Is there a single repository for device classifications?
(19:20) to enable AI analytics is there any base infrastructure requirements to run be able to run that?
(23:05) Can we get client profile, NetFlow data, and client information without integrating ISE?
(25:24) In regard to correlation for endpoint devices, is Cisco matching IPv4 and IPv6 information?

Highlighted Tweets: SD-Access & Cisco DNA

Security Field Day - SecureX & SASE

Cisco SecureX vs. the Acryonyms

Ben Greenbaum, Technical Marketing Leader

Overview

Learn how SecureX compares to industry trends.

Resources

Treasure Hunt: An Exploration of Threat Hunting

Eric Hulse, Security Research Director

Overview

Learn about threat hunting as a concept and explore real world findings.

Highlighted Questions

(31:06) When you do threat hunting, what’s the most overlooked item or resource that you use to find a threat?
(33:35) If you do have a threat, how do you determine the blast radius?
(35:48) How do you do risk assessment in an Enterprise? Where do you prioritize your efforts, time, and money?
(39:15) Many organizations use production data for their development and test data, can you speak to that?
(41:20) How you would differentiate between Threat Hunting and Threat Intelligence?

Zero Trust and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Jamey Heary, Chief Security Architect and Brian Verenkoff, Systems Engineering Director (DUO Security)

Overview

See a demo of the advancements we’ve made in ZTNA, passwordless, and our brand-new single segmentation policy engine.

Highlighted Questions

(10:35) All of the SASE capabilities listed, are they hosted in places all over the world or are some of them located in only regions where compute capabilities or scaling is available?
(11:42) When someone wants to buy SASE, are they paying for one SKU, multiples SKUs? And are they paying per region?
(15:15) What is the file size limitation on DLP (Data Loss Prevention)?
(18:58) Can you expand on the proximity rule? Does that just mean you’re doing geolocation?

Cisco Innovations in Industrial Switching and Security

Dan Behrens, Technical Marketing Engineer

Overview

Learn how we are developing innovations to provide rich industrial visibility and enable the ability to effectively deploy Enterprise Security solutions.

Highlighted Questions

(13:35) Do you have solutions for on-premises for networks that need to be air-gapped?
(21:45) Is it the fingerprinting data that you’re getting from the console itself or can you see the data of the file that is transferred?
(22:05) How is a baseline established [within Cyber Vision]?
(22:50) Does Cyber Vision stop communication if you had something deviate from the baseline or does it make you aware of the problem for you to go and manually intervene?
(23:50) Is there any limitation to the capabilities of Cyber Vision?
(25:00) When a vendor releases a new PLC or enhancement to product or develop a new protocol, it’s going to be proprietary. How will Cyber Vision see that?

Highlighted Tweets: Security

I want to thank and recognize those who were instrumental in making these Field Days a success. Thank you to all the speakers who joined multiple practice sessions to prepare for the event and worked tirelessly on your presentations. I also want to thank all my marketing peers who worked with me on the content and socialization of the sessions, I appreciate all your hard work. A HUGE thank you to all the delegates - YOU ROCK! Lastly, THANK YOU to Stephen and Tom and all the great folks at Gestalt IT for creating this wonderful platform for engaging with the broader technical community.

Breana Jordan | @breanajordan12