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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 Collaboration for Education - Classroom of the Future - 19 Dec 2018

Maarten Druwe of Cisco Systems explaining Collaboration tools

On 19  December 2018 a group of members from BiASC were invited at the Cisco BeLux office in Diegem to learn the ins and outs of online collaboration. Frank, Maarten and Rudy of Cisco BeLux thoroughly demonstrated the use of online collaboration tools to a group of about 15 academy trainers, allowing participants to ask all the questions about new communication tools and methods. Demonstrations of Collaboration Systems need restricted groups of about 15 participants. 

Webex Teams and Webex Meet are very well designed with open standards and are quite user friendly. If you like to experiment with Webex just send a message to <yvan@biasc.be>. Education prices are free for students and one euro per academy user (teachers, manangement, admin staff).

To start using all the possibilities a "presenter" needs a decent introduction. "Participating" in online collaboration is easy, just press "Join".

Pictures of the demonstration: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wgDyx3UyNH7WMubAA

=>    Members of BiASC who are interested in a deep-dive demonstration please contact <yvan@biasc.be>

 

 

DevNetAcad Reloaded

From now until June 2019 Cisco’s DevNet and Networking Academy have teamed up again for another webinar series because of the high interest from last year's series. In our ever changing technology landscape, it only makes sense to revisit a few sessions from last year and share the latest details as well as feature a whole new set of topics. Join the webinars for conversations about network programmability, security, SDN and network controllers, Python, and many other related topics.

 

• Session 1: Networking with Programmability is Easy
• Session 2: Role of a Network Engineer in the Programmable Age
• Session 3: Software Defined Networking and Controllers
• Session 4: Adding API Skills to Your Networking Toolbox to be held in January 2019
• Session 5: The New Programmable Toolbox of a Networking Engineer to be held in February 2019
• Session 6: Program Networking Devices using their APIs to be held in March 2019
• Session 7: Before, During, and After a Security Attack to be held in April 2019
• Session 8: Play with Linux and Python on the Networking Devices to be held in May 2019
• Session 9: Automate your Network with a Bot to be held in June 2019 

URL: https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/opportunities-in-tech/programmability-devnet-webinar-series?utm_source=ks&utm_medium=multi&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=career-tb

 

Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon Video

The Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon from 12 to 14 October at Odisee Brussels showed a great spirit from 25 teams from around the Benelux. We thank all participants for taking so many opportunities for teamwork and collaboration. The video taken during the Hackathon shows exactly how the hackathon happened.

• 150 students from Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg forming 25 teams
• Active Learning: global problem solving + technology skills + teamwork and collaboration
• Using the Internet Of Things for interactions between people, processes, data and things, offering a world of opportunities to solve real world problems
• Each team explores the domain of democratic voting and elections and creates a solution that could make a difference
• A  great experience for all

Here is a link for the Hacakthon Participants to download the video from the event.
Cisco Benelux Lighthouse Hackathon Video to download:  Download Cisco Hackathon v5

Cybersecurity Series Webinars

Below is a list of upcoming webinars through the beginning of October.  

Cybersecurity series: 1^st session – Intro to Cybersecurity, 19 September, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, Register Here

Cybersecurity series: 2nd session – Security Threats & Breaches, 3 October, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, Register Here

All details for the Cybersecurity Series can be access here.

API Deep Dive: APIC EM Rest API

This video relates to the Netacad Workshop Emerging Technologies APIC EM

A classroom session from the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live Berlin 2017. You can now download Cisco's Application Policy Infrastructure Controller - Enterprise Module (APIC-EM) from DevNet! APIC-EM is Cisco's SDN controller for the Campus and WAN. The first production release of APIC-EM included path-trace, Network Plug and Play (PnP) and Intelligent-WAN (IWAN) applications as well as services for location, topology and PKI. Three months later new capabilities such as EasyQoS and Dynamic QoS were released. Learn how to use the API's these applications expose to innovate on top of APIC-EM and integrate it into your operational environment. This session will cover the fundamentals of the controller inventory and topology as well as the advanced applications like path-trace, PnP, QoS and IWAN.

A. Radford, API Deep Dive: APIC EM Rest API, February 2017 -- URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqsSh9zag_A&t=171s

APIC-EM Presentation at CiscoLive PDF:  Download APIC-EM Adam Radford BRKRST-2641

Intent-Based Networking Training Videos

In these videos subject matter experts will cover Intuitive Networking, DNA Center Fundamentals, Software Defined Access (SDA) Principles and critical SDWAN information.

Network Intuitive Innovation Overview

Lesson 1: Trends, Challenges, and Benefits - 06:11

Lesson 2: Capabilities and Use Cases - 19:20

Lesson 3: 3D Interactive Tool - 05:46

Lesson 4: Application Hosting on Catalyst 9K Demonstration - 20:40

Lesson 5: Catalyst 9K and Application Hosting Q&A Post-Seminar Discussion Thread - 04:42

URL: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/learning_center/intent-based-networking-training-videos

Get Started with Software Defined Networking

Unlock the technical secrets to Software Defined Networking 
Cisco experts review Software Defined Networking topics like software automation, programmable networking, agents and controllers, APIs and more. 

Topics

• SDN and Network Programmability Basics
• Data Modeling and YANG Data Modeling Series
• Fundamentals of Open SDN and OpenFlow Series
• DevNet Sandbox, On-Demand Development and Learning Labs
• Cisco APIC Enterprise Module Demonstration Series
• Cisco APIC-EM: A Programmatic Perspective
• Getting Started with NETCONF 
• Introduction to Containers

URL: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/learning_center/sdn_recorded_seminars

 

Mark your calendar for Cisco Live 2019 which will take place in Barcelona on January 28 – February 1, 2019

Please mark your calendar for Cisco Live 2019 which will take place in Barcelona on January 28 – February 1, 2019.

Cisco Live Barcelona Live Broadcast | 30 JAN 2019 - 2 FEB 2018

From 30 January until 2 February Cisco Academies are able to follow live sessions in real time.

Experience Cisco Live 2018 from anywhere! Watch exclusive keynotes and interviews and get up to date with the latest innovations
from Cisco. View the broadcast for free at CiscoLive.com/emea or CiscoLive.com/global.

Cisco DevNet Webinar Series

The Cisco DevNet Webinars are frequently updated

Digitization is disrupting traditional networks and driving the need to adopt evolving technologies. Networks are becoming programmable, virtualized, and software-driven. With these changes happening in the industry, it is important to understand software development concepts and how cross-functional work will be required to help drive network automation. The skills needed for future careers are changing and Cisco Networking Academy is partnering with DevNet to help you. Together we will help you better understand and experience some of these new software-related skills, broaden your thinking about potential career options, and provide opportunities to learn more.

Discover what DevNet has to offer you as a student and digital professional. Find out how DevNet and Networking Academy are collaborating together to create
a vibrant community.

Session 1: Introduction to Software and Programmability through Cisco DevNet
Session 2: Introduction to Coding
Session 3: Intent Networks: How to be a Network Engineer in a Programmable Age
Session 4: Fast Lane: Where Code (Apple) Meets Network Infrastructure (Cisco)
Session 5: APIs with Cisco Spark
Session 6: Network Programmability with APIC-EM

URL: https://www.netacad.com/careers/webinars/opportunities-in-tech/-/asset_publisher/xUXSnCQaZ4Nt/content/cisco-devnet/?utm_source=ks&utm_medium=multi&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=career-tb

Typical Attack Compromising a Victim's Computer

In the new CCNA CyberSecurity Operations course you learn how to understand attack patterns and how to deal with it as a network defender. Only six steps are necessary to start malicious activity in which a command and control (C2) server is involved. In the image above you see a typical  network attack in which a victim's computer is being compromized step by step. 

Source

Chris Sanders, Security Onion 2016: The Investigators Labyrinth: A Data-Driven Perspective, 29:38
Published on Youtube 12  SEP 2016 
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW9g2K69qOA

 

Malware Analysis with SecurityOnion (Video)

This video demonstrates how one could use the SecurityOnion distribution to analyze a pcap, captured during a malware infection. This video will demonstrate this by using tcpreplay to "replay" a pcap of an Angler EK infection. Using various tools provided in the SecurityOnion distribution you will discover the chain of events that led up to the compromise.

Tools used are SecurityOnion, SGUIL, WHOIS, SNORT, ELSA, BRO and more

PCAP provided by http://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/

More videos: https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/Videos

This video is a demo used in the workshops of the CyberSecurity Operations Networking Academy course.

The Network has Evolved

Have you ever thought about what happens after you give a phone app permission to access your location or photos?  The app requests data from your phone application, and then uses it to draw a map or enable you to alter your photo or some other useful action.  Businesses today increasingly want to do similar things with network data—we call this Network Programmability. In this session, we will explore how today we can manage and leverage networks in ways we have only dreamed of before.

Network Programmability Skills

Phase 1
• Python
• REST APIs
• JSON/XML
• git/GitHub

Phase 2
• Linux Skills
• Ansible
• Docker
• NETCONF/YANG

Phase 3
• Linux Networking
• Container Networking
• NFV

And so on ...
• Network Controllers
• IOT Networking
• Cloud Networking
• NFV
• ”DevOps”

Learn more ( for BiASC Members)

Instructor Professional Development: online now in September

This quarter's GIPD Week starts on 11 September.

 Here are English sessions that fall under normal Europe times:

• DevNet Sandbox – Monday, 11 Sept 17:00 CEST/15:00 UTC
• Program Updates Option 2 – Tuesday, 12 Sept 13:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Zone Based Firewall – Wednesday, 13 Sept 8:00 CEST/6:00 UTC
• Packet Tracer Physical – Wednesday, 13 Sept 12:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Editing and Creating Packet Tracer Activities – Wednesday, 13 Sept 19:00 CEST/17:00 UTC
• An Intro to IS-IS – Thursday, 14 Sept 12:00 CEST/10:00 UTC
• Instructor Forum EMEAR – Thursday, 14 Sept 14:00 CEST/12:00 UTC

Other live Technical Sessions:

• SDN Fundamentals Part 2
• Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Introductory Python

To register for sessions go to http://cs.co/GIPD18

There are also offer localized sessions in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Polish at comfortable times. 

All sessions are recorded and resources will be posted within 24 – 48 hours of the session.

Using Apache Spark 2.0 to Analyze the City of San Francisco's Open Data

Published on Youtube 13 July 2016

Sameer Farooqui from Databricks delivers a hands-on tutorial using Spark SQL and DataFrames to retrieve insights and visualizations from datasets published by the City of San Francisco.  The labs are targeted for an audience with some general programming or SQL query experience, but little to no experience with Spark. Sameer will begin with some brief theory and lecture on Spark, before diving into several demos performing visualizations and analysis on calls made to the San Francsico Fire Department on July 4th.

----Topics-----
00:00:06 - Workshop Intro & Environment Setup
00:13:06 - Brief Intro to Spark
00:17:32 - Analysis Overview: SF Fire Department Calls for Service
00:23:22 - Analysis with PySpark DataFrames API
00:29:32 - Doing Date/Time Analysis
00:47:53 - Memory, Caching and Writing to Parquet
01:00:40 - SQL Queries
01:21:11 - Convert a Spark DataFrame to a Pandas DataFrame
-----Q & A-----
01:24:43 - Spark DataFrames vs. SQL: Pros and Cons?
01:26:57 - Workflow for Chaining Databricks notebooks into Pipeline?
01:30:27 - Is Spark 2.0 ready to use in production?

 

Follow Along:
+ Databricks Community Edition: https://databricks.com/try
+ Labs: https://bit.ly/sfopenlabs
+ Learning Material: https://bit.ly/sfopenreadalong

 

Facebook's Data Center Network

Facebook, Engineering Facebook's Data Center Network: Challenges and Limitations, 13 Feb 2015, 19:12, on YouTube
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEbSbE8Fz0

TOPICS: Network design for the datacenter, new switches, performance

Contact: Najam Ahmad, VP Network Engineering

Cisco Talks - Chris Litster

You might learn useful background information when you listen to the Cisco Talks by Chris Litster. He was part of the development of many recent technologies.

TOPICS: OSI/ Switching/ Routing/ Datacenter/ Wireless/ VOIP/ Collaboration/ Security

URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfTdIEJiussOGwhCu5cBJXMbqD_cLdysu

 

Facebook's Data Center Fabric

Facebook's Data Center Fabric, 13 FEB 2015, Youtube, 37:36
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcI3fGEait0&t=329s
Speaker: Alexey Andreyev, Network Engineer, Facebook

TOPICS: Datacenter Design, Switches, Pods, Racks, Clusters, Splines, Fiber, Platforms, Automation