vzw BiASC asbl

Networking Academy Evolution

Here is a presentation covering important topics helping you to prepare for the next evolution of Networking Academy

PRESENTATION

• Download BiASC Slides July 2019 (Prep 2019-2020)

TOPICS

• New Certifications
• Scope & Sequence for new CCNA courses
• NetAcad 3.0
• IPD Webinars for Instructors

IPD Week for Cisco Academy Instructors

Four times a year online webinars are organized for Cisco Academy Instructors. In 2019-2020 the webinars will focus on the new program updates and inform you about technical issues. You will be invited by mail and through other media. Please register to be updated and learn about the new technology evolution.

New NetAcad Login with cisco.com account

For security reasons the login procedure for the NetAcad website has been changed.
Cisco.com account (formerly called CCO ID) is the new way to log in to Cisco NetAcad.com.  

The best advice is for you to have a cisco.com account with the same email address has the NetAcad email.

If you have a Cisco.com account with the same email you use in NetAcad,

=> Log in using your Cisco.com email and password

Frequently Asked Questions
Go to FAQ

 

New Single Sign-On for NetAcad.com

As of this week access to the Cisco Networking Academy website will be changed. Cisco’s OneID solution affords very good security. Your login page will look different after the NetAcad platform upgrade (July 12-15 depending on your time zone).  

A pop-up window (shown below) will display and assist you through the one-time process. See below for helpful tips and  for scheduled maintenance times for your location.

 

Helpful Tips:

1. Have an existing NetAcad.com login? You can continue to use it, and it will work for all Cisco.com properties moving forward.
2. Have an existing NetAcad.com login AND a Cisco.com login using the same email addresses? Then your email and Cisco.com password will become your new login for netacad.com moving forward.
3. Have an existing NetAcad.com login AND a Cisco.com login using different email addresses? Then you can continue to use the two accounts or consolidate by changing netacad.com email address to match your cisco.com account.

Video introducing NetAcad with images from the Benelux

Recent images from Belgian and Benelux teachers and students to explain NetAcad to the world

Unified CCNA Training for NetAcad Instructors

Existing NetAcad instructors will need to get acquainted with new topics of the new “unified CCNA” 

There exist recorded training sessions related to the new topics:

• Network programmability
• Wireless
• Security

To access the sessions register to the IPD week class and click on Technical sessions and locate the following topics:

• Puppet, Chef And Ansible
• Wireless Security
• Getting to know Cisco DNS center
• REST API & JSON Encoded Data
• WLAN Fundamentals

The PowerPoint materials and video recording are available for you to train yourself and prepare.

 

More sessions will be recorded and they will cover the new “ Unified CCNA”.  

Takeways from Cisco NetAcad Workshop Day - 14 June 2019

NetAcad Workshop Day at Cisco BeLux Office

14 June 2019

• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

On 14 June about 70 Cisco Academy instructors, advisors and experts from Belgium and Luxemburg were present at the Cisco NetAcad Workshop Day. Key presenters were both Cisco specialists as well as NetAcad Instructors.

ALL PICS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tRppwVzbZJoS7AHy6

Takeaways from the Keynotes and Breakout Sessions

• We are entering a new wave in Cisco industrial certification, CCNA becoming more generic, and allowing professionals to choose a specialism. What you have learned until now remains relevant.
• Career specializations are divided in the following groups: Enterprise; Security; Collaboration; DataCenter & Service Provider.
• The main Cisco NetAcad learning tracks will be divided in two groups: exploration and career-oriented.
• The career-ready tracks will be CCNA Enterprise; Security & CyberSecurity; Internet of Things & DevNet.

Next Academic Year 2019-2020

• Cisco Academies do not have to adapt their planned schedule for the following academic year.
• In November the new online courses will be ready for evaluation.
• BiASC and Cisco NetAcad will be providing timely information to member academies.
• From November onwards specific workshops will be planned by Cisco and BiASC to help everyone through the transition.

 

 

Cisco Networking Acdemy Learning Experience 2018-2019

Here is a full overview and description of the Networking Academy Courses in seven domains:

• Networking
• Security
• IoT
• OS & IT
• Programming
• Business
• Digital Literacy

 

PPT: Download NetAcad_Learning Experience 4.25.18 customer

IoT Security Game

The IoT Security Game will be demonstrated during the next NetAcad event at the Cisco BeLux office on 14 June 2019
URL: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2019/03/cisco-belux-netacad-workshop-day-agenda-schedule.html

Cisco NetAcad into Gamification

The IoT Security Game is a Catch The Flag type of cybersecurity game, that helps students to reinforce their existing cybersecurity skills by applying them into an isolated networking environment with an end to end IoT System. In the game, students re-use all the White Hat Hacker skills they have learned in the IoT Security course to discover threats and recommend mitigation strategies in a set of challenging missions that mimic real world situations. To successfully solve the missions, students need to actively collaborate within their team, but to win, they need to compete on the score points with other teams. The competition aspects and the game dynamics create a fun and exciting activity that motivates students to learn more.

Elements necessary for the game

• Game Controller Raspberry Pi 
• Cloud Services Simulator Raspberry Pi 
• Kali Linux VM
• End Device
• Game Central Switch

 

IT Academy Exploration Day - 23 May 2019 - Pictures & Presentations

A number of influential IT Academy Providers explained their offerings for an audience of Technology Educators, trainers and instructors from higher education and professional education in Belgium.

Below you will find practical information as well as the links for the presentations prepared for the IT Exploration Day in Brussels on 23 May 2019.

Event Pictures 

• URL: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7UDQxK6rCcjXxtzq6

Welcome & Planning

• PPT: Download IT Academy Exploration Day 23 May 2019 14h-18h Polyvalent Auditorium 2215
• PDF: Download IT Academy Exploration Day 23 May 2019 14h-18h Polyvalent Auditorium 2215

Information from IT Academy Providers

• Cisco Netacad
  • Short PDF: Download TechnologyTrainingRetrainingUpskillingProfessionalDevelopment-23mei2019.v4.2.Keynote
  • Complete PDF: Download TechnologyTrainingRetrainingUpskillingProfessionalDevelopment-23mei2019-FULL.v4.2
  • Course Descriptions PPT: Download NetAcad_Learning Experience 4.25.18 customer
• Palo Alto Cybersecurity Academy Overview
  • PDF: Download Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy Overview - BENELUX IT ACADEMY SHOW EXPLORATION DAY 23 MAY 2019 (1)
• Red Hat Academy
  • PPT1: Download BIASC Keynote IT Academy Show 23may19
  • PPT2: Download BIASC Breakout Academy Show 23may19
• VMware IT Academy
  • PDF: Download VMware IT Academy - Public Overview
    
  • Registration, only for educational institutions: URL: https://vmas.onthehub.com/WebStore/ProductsByMajorVersionList.aspx
• Other IT Academy Providers - Soon to be available

Event Attendees

• A total of 75 delegates from the following institutions  enrolled for the event: Artesis Plantyn (Antwerp), Belgian Defense (mil.be), CVO De Verdieping (Heusden-Zolder), EPHEC (Louvain-la-Neuve), Erasmushogeschool (Brussels), Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique HE2B (Brussels), HENALLUX (Namur), HELHA (Tournai), HEPL (Liege), Howest (Brugge), IEPSCF-UCCLE (Brussels), Interface3 (Brussels), CVO KISP (Aalst), CVO Lethas (Brussels), Odisee University College (Brussels/ Gent),  Hogeschool PXL (Hasselt), SGI (Lennik), Simac (Kortenberg), Technobel (Ciney), Technocité (Hornu), VDAB (Flanders), Hogeschool VIVES (Brugge)

About BiASC

• BiASC is a bunch, a collection of motivated technology educators, trainers and teachers with an open mind. 
• BiASC collects and evaluates learning materials about the topics of networks, systems and security.
• BiASC organizes events, instructor training and workshops, thereby creating a human network to improve the way people learn. 
• The minimal service is as a go-between between IT Academy Providers and higher education and professional training organizations. 
• About one hundred official educational institutions are members of BiASC.
• More information about BiASC: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/biasc-contacts.html

Skills For Europe 2030

On 19 June Autoworld Brussels opens its doors for a two-day conference about skills of the future workforce.

This conference will convene business executives, policy makers, academics and education and training stakeholders to foster dialogue as well as to agree on priorities and concrete measures, in order to facilitate the implementation of upskilling strategies.

BiASC and Cisco Networking Academy are participating

Particpating companies
Airbus, EIB, EIT, OECD, WEF, Gartner, McKinsey, Siemens, Cisco, IBM, NXP and many others

More information: http://skills4industry.eu/

• The rise of new key enabling technologies are heavily transforming the nature of jobs
• Businesses are increasingly struggling to find the right profiles to fill their job vacancies

 

CCNA Certification Voucher for NetAcad Instructors

Belgian IT Academy Support Center (BIASC) has available the following rewards in the Cisco Networking Academy Reward 2018-2019 program: 

• 5 Certification Vouchers - available until June 30th, 2019

OPTIONS for Instructors
CCNA 
CCNA Security 
CCNA Cybersecurity Fundamentals
CCNA Cybersecurity Operations

Instructors who would benefit from one of these vouchers and would like to make a request on behalf of Belgian IT Academy Support Center (BIASC), please register using the following form.

URL: https://forms.gle/rs4SiVuP7AZGbe7X6

The following data is needed for each instructor in order to receive a voucher:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Email
• Roll: Instructor
• Networking Academy ID: Available in the Netacad.com profile
• Voucher Name: CCNA Composite, CCNA Security, CCNA Cybersecurity Operations, CCNA Cybersecurity Fundamentals (Need to use exact name)
• Country

NetAcad Ecosystem for Careers

Start thinking about the skills you need in the future now

Links from the Cisco Networking Academy Ecosystem about careers, employment, job interviews, etc
When using information from these websites, please refer to the information source

NetAcad Website

• Cisco NetAcad Pathways to Today’s IT Jobs: https://www.netacad.com/careers/pathways
• Cisco Networking Academy Career Advice: https://www.netacad.com/careers/career-advice
• Cisco NetAcad Employment Opportunities: https://www.netacad.com/careers/employment-opportunities
• Talent Bridge Career Preparation: https://www.netacad.com/web/self-enroll/course-799385
• Skills You Need in a Tech Career: https://www.netacad.com/careers/career-advice/essential-skills/skills-you-need-tech-career

Social

• Cisco Networking Academy LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/school/cisco-networking-academy1/
• Cisco Networking Academy Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/cisconetworkingacademy/
• Cisco Networking Academy Twitter Channel: https://twitter.com/CiscoNetAcad

Employer Showcase Webinar Series

•   URL: https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/employer-showcase-webinar-series

 

Specials

• Learn the Secret to Managing LinkedIn Webinar Session: https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/career-preparation/social-media-and-your-career-webinar-series
• Featured Jobs at Cisco Webinar Series: https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/career-preparation/featured-jobs-at-cisco-webinar-series
• Ideation Skills: https://www.netacad.com/careers/career-advice/essential-skills/ideate-pro

 

CCNP Certification Voucher for NetAcad Instructors

Cisco Networking Academy has made a limited number of CCNP 300-Level certification discount codes available to Premier+ and Premier ASCs. 

Expiration date: July 31, 2019

These discount codes will allow eligible instructors to take the CCNP ROUTE, SWITCH, or TSHOOT exams at no-cost prior to the expiration date on July 31, 2019. 

Instructors who would benefit from one of these vouchers and would like to make a request on behalf of Belgian IT Academy Support Center (BIASC), please register using the following form.

URL:  https://forms.gle/1PCAAWowEaNJ6cCo6

The following information is required.

• Instructor Name
• Instructor ID (available in netacad.com profile)
• Instructor Netacad.com Email 
• Academy Name
• Academy ID

Wireshark captures

For those who like to use Wireshark captures in classes, there is a very good capture repository at:  http://packetlife.net/captures/

Students can easily view capture files on the browser (via Cloudshark) without having to install Wireshark. It is very fast and there are many captures about most of the CCNA & CCNP subjects. Also it's a good choice for those using a lab with polices not allowing Wireshark installation.

Source: Moises Andre Nisenbaum, Facebook group, NetAcad Instructor Professional Development

The role of Technical Marketing Engineers at Cisco

Cisco regularly gives presentations about jobs at Cisco and partners. This presentation offers background information by Cisco about building products and jobs that support partners and customers to use the products. Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers (TME) play an important role, because they are both technical and communicative.

To build a product like Catalyst 9200 , we need to ask:
Do we really need to build a new product?
What are customers looking for?
How many and what type of ports do we need?
What software features are required?
How will we license and price this product?

Once the product is built, we need to:
Educate our sales teams about it
Inform our customers of the new product
Write technical collateral to help with using it
Collect customer feedback and continue improving it

Speakers

Jeff McLaughlin, Director of Technical Marketing
Kanu Gupta, Technical Marketing Engineer
Cisco Enterprise Networking

Video (registration necessary): https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/career-preparation/featured-jobs-at-cisco-webinar-series?fbclid=IwAR3IYHCMuKe7PvNT7OGzu073PHF-l1s9Xn_JdJYfwcl_TXXiE9C98p_FTeY

PDF Presentation: Download Featured_jobs_at_cisco_tme_session1

Play with Linux and Python on the Networking Devices -- Online Webinar

Play with Linux and Python on the Networking Devices, 8 May, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time: Register Here

What app would you develop if you could run it directly on a router or a switch? What full-stack system would you want to deploy and run directly on a router or a switch if they could run a full Linux operating system? Now that your imagination is running wild, join this session to learn how on a network infrastructure you can now run your Python code directly from the IOS CLI. You will also learn how to spin up a full Linux container on a router with either your favorite network performance-monitoring tool or with a chat-bot app that lets you manage the network from a messenger app on your phone.

If you register, you will get access to the recording.

Before, During, and After a Security Attack -- Online Webinar

Before, During, and After a Security Attack, 17 April, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time: Register Here

Have you ever wondered what happens before a bad actor attacks a network? The hope is that their attempt to infiltrate the infrastructure will be eliminated by the layers of security protection built into the network. However, sometimes the attackers exploit an unknown, so-called, 0-day vulnerability to get inside. Do not panic – even during the attack, we can collect valuable information and learn how the attack is being-executed and if or where it is spreading.

Moreover, based on the collected information, we know where we should concentrate our cleaning efforts after the attack has been discovered and eliminated. Join this session to learn more about threat protection, and how simple scripts with programmability and automation can turn your response time to an attack from minutes to seconds.

If you register, you will get access to the recording.

 

Cisco NetAcad Workshop Day --- Agenda & Schedule

 

All Cisco Academies from the Benelux are invited to the NetAcad Workshop & Networking Day with a central theme of "Unique Opportunities for the Profile of the Future" at the Cisco BeLux Office on 14 June.
REGISTRATION URL: https://goo.gl/forms/mQygObc3KNUc9bYh1

BREAKOUTS/ WORKSHOPS
Please register your choice of breakouts. In that way you will receive a WiFi login for the conference as well as a Webex Teams account for the presentations and handouts  URL: https://forms.gle/nKMXi1TSuqDCPfrA7 
For some workshops it is necessary to bring your own laptop.

AGENDA & SCHEDULE 

Theme: Unique Opportunities for the Profile of the Future
Target Group: Cisco Academy Instructors & Managers
Location: Cisco BeLux Office, De Kleetlaan, Diegem near Brussels, Belgium
Date: 14 June 2019

• 09:30 Arrival
• 10:00 Welcome by Cisco 
• 10:15 Digital Skills - Keynote 1
• 10:30 NetAcad Trends and Evolutions - Keynote 2
• 11:15 Diversity > Female participation - Keynote 3
• 11:30 Short Break
• 11:45 BREAKOUT SESSIONS A-C-D-I
• 12:30 Lunch Break
• 13:15 BREAKOUT SESSIONS E-F-G-B
• 14:00 BREAKOUT SESSIONS E-F-G-H
• 14:45 Short Break
• 15:00 Cisco on Digital Transformation - Keynote 4
• 15:30 Nico on Innovation in Education - Keynote 5

BREAKOUT SESSION TITLES (AND SPEAKERS)

• Breakout A -- CCNA Security -- IPsec VPN Evolution : Why should we consider IKEv2 ?" -- Pierre de Fooz
• Breakout B -- CyberSecurity Expertise -- Bart Bruninx, Steven De Ruyver, Cisco
• Breakout C -- CCNP Route Pilot Course -- First impressions of a new learning environment -- Tom Cordemans
• Breakout D -- Introduction to Packet Tracer -- Yvan Rooseleer
• Breakout E -- IoT Security (long session) -- Willem-Jan Derks, Hans Roeyen 
• Breakout F -- DevNet -- What does a network programmer perform?  (long session) -- Semyon Ovsyannikov, Alain Pieters
• Breakout G -- dCloud/ VIRL Virtual Internet Routing Lab) (long session) -- Tom Istaz, Pierre de Fooz
• Breakout H -- NetAcad Orientation for New Instructors -- Yvan Rooseleer, Marc Delmotte, Fabian Restiaux
• Breakout I -- Introduction to the Networking Academy Portfolio -- Semyon Ovsyannikov, Nico Declerck

Career Opportunities At Home and Around the World

Cisco NetAcad Alumni can discover workplaces  at home and around the world. Cisco's Talent Bridge new tool helps you find opportunities where you live and everywhere you want to go. Instructors are able to guide their students, and get an award.

Flyer: Download Talent Bridge Matching Engine Instructor PDF

OPPORTUNITY FOR NETACAD INSTRUCTORS
Talent Bridge is offering a reward for NetAcad instructors who introduce the Talent Bridge Matching Engine to their students. To qualify, simply let your students 18 years or older know that they can view and apply for open job opportunities by creating a profile on the tool. Your students will only see jobs that match their qualifications as defined by employers—including requirements for education, location, language proficiency and certifications. Offer limited to the first 50 validated responders who complete the short survey and meet all requirements.

Claim Your Reward Here

An instructor flyer is attached to this email to help inform your instructors about the Talent Bridge Matching Engine

Flyer

• Download Talent Bridge Matching Engine Instructor PDF

URLs

• Talent Bridge Matching Engine
• Claim Your Reward Here

.