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Year: 2020

Network Security Automation Win – block IP threats in seconds

30th December 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

Not so long ago a customer asked me for help on how to block IP addresses on their regional firewalls infrastructure. They needed a solution urgently, since lately there were some severe attacks on other companies in the region, and they didn’t want to be “on the news” too. Having a network engineer available 7×24 …

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Fast and basic DRP solution

18th December 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

Some time ago I was asked to design the networking part as a basic DRP solution with the aim to fulfill an audit requirement, basically, the DRP has to cover the scenario of the main Datacenter going completely offline. So, all or nothing scenario, and only the main applications were covered. The secondary site would …

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Winning in education

15th October 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

Finally, I got my expert subscription to ipspace.net, and enrolled in one of the full courses. After a couple of weeks, I have to say that I’m really impressed with the quality, content, and structure. It’s my best career investment in a long time. It feels like a master degree in networking, why? – content …

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Cloud migration in 8 minutes: security rules from on-premise Cisco ACI to Oracle Cloud OCI with Terraform

25th September 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

Introduction A couple of months ago I was tasked to accelerate a cloud migration from the networking perspective. Context: Cisco ACI already deployed, with security rules grouped by functions and already agreed with the security team Migration to Oracle Cloud (aka OCI) already started and growing But, since Cisco ACI and Oracle OCI are configured …

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How Cisco ACI can easily send real-time notifications straight to your hands

11th June 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

Even if you don’t fully understand what is an API, it is really easy to leverage their power to have some useful information directly sent to a collaboration platform and receive it on your mobile or PC in real-time. All the tools in use are Free: Python, Slack, and WebEx Teams. In this post, I …

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Free Local Network backup with GUI and messaging

30th April 2020 by Adrian Giacometti

In my previous post, I showed you how easy it is to have a network configuration backup with a GUI and messaging and keep it synchronized with GitHub to see the changes, and also sending messages to Slack and emails when it runs. For this post, I modified the scripts to use a cool Open Source tool named Gogs (Thanks Nikolay …

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