Every network team has the same fear: when a critical network platform goes down, will the backup actually work? In most environments, backups are treated as a checkbox – something that “should” work, but isn’t truly validated until it’s too late. Cisco ISE, Catalyst Center, FMC, CUCM, and other Cisco platforms are too important to gamble on.

Keeping your organisation secure is more important, and more complex, than ever. With new threats, new technologies and new compliance requirements appearing constantly, it can be hard to know if your security setup is really where it should be.

It's the worst nightmare of any network administrator: a major component of your network fails and you don't have a backup. Cisco ISE and Catalyst Center are critical for any network - having backups that are easy to restore when disaster strikes is key: Backup Assure is the answer.

There’s lot of security products on the market – and plenty of scare stories about how you need to secure your network. If you use Cisco or Meraki, Cisco has an excellent set of products in the security space – and one of the major ones is Cisco Umbrella.

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In today's fast-paced world, businesses require reliable and efficient backup solutions to safeguard mission critical infrastructure. The IPTel team are regularly approached by clients seeking a simplified approach to Cisco appliance backups, or when they discover their existing backups have failed, putting business continuity at risk.

Security Service Edge, or SSE for short, is a concept that's been around since about 2021. SSE is all about how you help your remote workforce secure access to their cloud applications - while you continue to centrally manage your policy. There's a bit to it - let's take a look in this blog.

There are many confusing terms for newcomers to the world of networking. In this blog, we're going to explore some of the very common network security terms and what they mean.

During fault finding with WLAN networks, there comes a point where you just have to take it down to the lowest level. Sometimes it is because you have a bug and you need to see the exact behaviour of devices in the network, in order to work out where the issue lies.

Cisco ISE is Cisco’s Identity Services Engine, and it is at the heart of Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture strategy to provide visibility and security in the most demanding Enterprise networks.