The Securing WAN and SD-WAN 1-day workshop provides what is available from Cisco’s portfolio of solution to secure the Branch office and Software Defined WAN. Attendees will have the opportunity to go through preliminary design and implementation guidance for organizations looking to deploy an enterprise network that delivers an uncompromised secured user experience over any WAN connection. There is a plethora of security solutions that Cisco offers to have a secure WAN connectivity like DMVPN, Zone-based Firewall, Stealth watch, Cisco Umbrella, Snort IPS, FirePOWER and Introduction to Software Defined WAN. The course is focused on real world use cases which attendees can easily understand and relate.

Security being critical component on today’s digitally disrupted workspace. Visibility is extremely important parameter to see, identify, mitigate, and quarantine threats and anomalies to protect the network and its resources. The workshop educates the participants on how to tighten the security at the access level of the network using various solution offerings from Cisco. Features like mGig, TrustSec, Flexible Netflow, FRA, Fastlane and products like Stealthwatch, CMX Cloud, their primary advantages and features that would help the IT to see, improvise and act based on the traffic pattern in the network. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be able to understand and decide on the feature-sets which would make their workspace transformation into Digital era.

System z continues to extend the value of the mainframe by leveraging robust security solutions to help meet the needs of today’s on demand, service-oriented infrastructures. System z servers have implemented leading-edge technologies, such as high-performance cryptography, multi-level security, large-scale digital certificate authority and life cycle management, improved Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) performance, advanced Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) function, and z/OS Intrusion Detection Services. This advanced z/OS security course presents the evolution of the current z/OS security architecture and explores in detail the various technologies involved in z/OS Cryptographic Services, z/OS Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), and z/OS Integrated Security Services.

In the hands-on exercises, you begin with your own z/OS HTTP Server in a TCP/IP environment. Throughout the exercises, you make changes to the configuration to implement authentication by using RACF, SSL and the use of digital certificates. Use is made of facilities such as RACDCERT to manage digital certificates, PKI Services and RACF auto registration. You will also implement different scenarios to implement ssl security for a typical tcpip application; FTP: SSL, TLS, server authentication, client certificates and AT-TLS. These exercises reinforce the concepts and technologies being covered in the lectures.

This course covers the concepts and implementation details of the software-defined networking and storage features of PowerVC on IBM Power Systems servers, known as IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). Students learn to implement a PowerVM infrastructure with software-defined storage based on IBM Spectrum Scale using NovaLink in SDE-mode, and software-defined networking based on Open vSwitch (OVS). Methods for capturing, deploying, and managing virtual machines in a software defined infrastructure are also explored.