Breaking Down Silos – Unified Security for Faster Automated Threat Resolution with Fortinet

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Fortinet

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Personnel: Julian Petersohn

Security teams often struggle with disparate security tools and disjointed workflows, leading to delayed threat responses. Fortinet’s presentation at Cloud Field Day showcased how its FortiSOAR platform addresses this challenge by orchestrating threat intelligence from FortiNDR (Network Detection and Response) and FortiCNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform). This integration seamlessly connects network and cloud threat data, enabling automated responses to reduce SOC workload and accelerate threat mitigation.

The demonstration highlighted how FortiSOAR ingests alerts from various sources, including FortiNDR and FortiCNAPP, correlating them to build a comprehensive picture of an attack. For example, FortiNDR provides network-level details like malicious IP addresses and file downloads, while FortiCNAPP offers insights into cloud-based activity, such as suspicious container behavior. FortiSOAR then uses these combined insights to trigger automated remediation playbooks, such as blocking malicious IP addresses, deleting compromised deployments, and redeploying clean instances.

Furthermore, FortiSOAR leverages AI capabilities, currently utilizing OpenAI’s GPT technology but with the potential for other integrations, to enhance threat analysis and incident response. This AI assistance allows SOC analysts to gain better context from alerts, receive severity assessments, discover similar incidents, and even automate some of the investigative and response processes. This ultimately improves the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations, enabling faster and more accurate threat resolution.


Network Intelligence Unleashed Turn Traffic into Actionable Threat Insights with Fortinet

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Fortinet

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Personnel: Derrick Gooch, Gabriel O’Brien

Fortinet’s Cloud Field Day presentation highlighted the untapped potential of network traffic for security insights. Derrick Gooch demonstrated how Fortinet’s AI-powered threat detection analyzes virtual machine traffic in real-time, minimizing performance impact and transforming raw network data into actionable intelligence for swift threat detection and mitigation within cloud environments. This is crucial because attackers frequently bypass perimeter defenses, making internal network monitoring essential.

The core of Fortinet’s solution, FortiNDR, leverages AI and machine learning to identify anomalies and malware. It ingests data from various sources, including hardware and virtual appliances, spanning on-premises and cloud environments (supporting AWS, Azure, and Google, as well as popular hypervisors). FortiNDR analyzes this data, classifying traffic as benign, non-malicious, or suspicious, using advanced techniques like gradient-boosted decision trees for web shell detection and deep neural networks for domain generation algorithm identification. The system also incorporates malware analysis through unpacking and deep code analysis using artificial neural networks.

Beyond detection, FortiNDR facilitates remediation and escalation through integration with Fortinet’s security fabric (FortiGate, FortiNAC, FortiSwitch, FortiSOAR) and third-party tools (CrowdStrike, Active Directory, VirusTotal, Cyber Threat Alliance). This allows for automated responses like blocking malicious IP addresses or integrating with existing SIEM systems (FortiAnalyzer, Cortex, Splunk). The presentation concluded with a technical overview of how FortiNDR is deployed in an AWS environment, emphasizing the use of traffic mirroring for efficient data collection.


Visibility into the Cloud – Identify Risks and Threats in Your Cloud Environment with Fortinet

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Fortinet

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Personnel: Derrick Gooch, Gabriel O’Brien

As cloud adoption accelerates, security teams struggle to keep pace with emerging risks and active threats. Fortinet’s FortiCNAP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) provides deep visibility into cloud environments, proactively identifying vulnerabilities and detecting real-time threats to enhance cloud security and compliance. The platform addresses cloud security as a big data problem, ingesting data from various cloud sources and performing hourly analysis to establish a baseline of normal activity. FortiCNAP then focuses on highlighting only anomalous activities, such as unusual geolocation logins or unexpected outbound network connections, reducing alert fatigue and prioritizing critical security events.

FortiCNAP achieves this visibility through a combination of agentless and agent-based approaches. Agentless capabilities integrate directly with cloud providers using infrastructure-as-code, pulling in activity logs, configurations, and permissions data for analysis. Agent-based capabilities, requiring some developer involvement for deployment, offer real-time telemetry, including network monitoring, file change detection, and limited vulnerability scanning. Crucially, the agent’s functionality is designed to be performant and avoid impacting the underlying system resources. Furthermore, FortiCNAP integrates with code repositories like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab to enable code security scanning and identify vulnerabilities before they reach production.

All these features are unified under a single platform, although different pricing tiers might be available depending on the included features. Customers can choose to leverage only the components relevant to their needs, such as opting out of the code scanning functionality if they already have a suitable solution in place. The presentation demonstrated FortiCNAP’s capabilities through a live scenario, showcasing its ability to detect and analyze various attack vectors, including cryptojacking, compromised Kubernetes clusters, and reverse shells. The platform’s ability to correlate multiple events into composite alerts and provide detailed root cause analysis, coupled with its integration with existing developer workflows via Terraform modules, GitHub integration, and VS Code plugins, positions FortiCNAP as a comprehensive solution for improving cloud security posture and reducing the burden on both security and development teams.


Stopping the Unseen, AI for High Confidence Low-risk Threat Response with Fortinet

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Fortinet Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Fortinet

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Personnel: Aidan Walden, Julian Petersohn

Cyber threats are increasingly sophisticated, often evading traditional detection methods and remaining undetected until significant damage occurs. Fortinet’s presentation at Cloud Field Day highlighted how AI-driven insights from network and cloud intelligence significantly improve threat detection, enhance overall visibility, and enable faster, lower-risk responses for security teams. The core message emphasizes empowering security operators by providing high-fidelity insights that allow for efficient and safe remediation, ultimately minimizing attack surface and reducing organizational risk.

The presentation detailed how Fortinet’s solutions address the challenges of increasingly complex cloud environments with numerous ingress/egress points and ephemeral networks. They ingest a vast amount of signals from various sources, both Fortinet and third-party, then utilize advanced machine learning to correlate this data into high-confidence threat assessments. This composite risk view prioritizes threats and presents actionable information to security operators, even providing AI-powered assistance for investigation and remediation steps, thus reducing the burden of low-value tasks.

A live demonstration showcased how Fortinet’s AI-powered security solutions could uncover and prevent an attack. The scenario, presented by a Fortinet threat analyst, simulated a real-world attack leveraging a known vulnerability, demonstrating the system’s ability to detect the initial compromise, trace the attack’s escalation across cloud infrastructure, and pinpoint critical misconfigurations. The presentation concluded by emphasizing Fortinet’s commitment to innovation and leadership in threat intelligence, backed by a significant patent portfolio and a broad range of security solutions designed to assist organizations in maintaining security posture in dynamic cloud environments.


The IPM Platform in Action with Catchpoint

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Catchpoint Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Catchpoint

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Personnel: Brandon DeLap, Mehdi Daoudi

Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform proactively ensures the resilience and performance of digital experiences. The platform’s core function is to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) by enabling detection, identification, escalation, and validation of issues. This is achieved through a multi-faceted approach that goes beyond simply identifying symptoms, such as a slow website, to pinpoint the root cause through triangulation of data from various sources.

Central to Catchpoint’s approach is its use of “mystery shoppers,” or synthetic monitoring agents, deployed globally across various ISPs and even in residential locations to provide a comprehensive view of performance from the end-user perspective. This is complemented by real user monitoring (RUM) using JavaScript beacons, BGP data collection for network-level insights, and integrations with tools like WebPageTest.org and Tundra for deeper application performance analysis. All this data feeds into a central platform for dashboards, alerting, and analysis.

The platform provides a holistic view of digital service health, focusing on accessibility, uptime, speed, and reliability. Key features include the StackMap visualization for a single-pane-of-glass view of performance, Internet Sonar for AI-driven issue identification, and end-to-end tracing using open telemetry. Catchpoint also offers advanced features like automated experiments to help web developers optimize performance and integrates with various alerting and ticketing systems for seamless workflow integration. The platform’s flexibility allows for customization to meet the specific needs of diverse organizations, from simple alert routing to sophisticated data integration with observability platforms.


The Internet Performance Mamagement (IPM) Platform with Catchpoint

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Catchpoint Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Catchpoint

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Personnel: Mehdi Daoudi

Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform proactively ensures the resilience and performance of digital experiences. The platform’s core function is to reduce mean time to repair (MTTR) by enabling detection, identification, escalation, and validation of issues. This is achieved through a multi-faceted approach that goes beyond simply identifying symptoms, such as a slow website, to pinpoint the root cause through triangulation of data from various sources.

Central to Catchpoint’s approach is its use of “mystery shoppers,” or synthetic monitoring agents, deployed globally across various ISPs and even in residential locations to provide a comprehensive view of performance from the end-user perspective. This is complemented by real user monitoring (RUM) using JavaScript beacons, BGP data collection for network-level insights, and integrations with tools like WebPageTest.org and Tundra for deeper application performance analysis. All this data feeds into a central platform for dashboards, alerting, and analysis.

The platform provides a holistic view of digital service health, focusing on accessibility, uptime, speed, and reliability. Key features include the StackMap visualization for a single-pane-of-glass view of performance, Internet Sonar for AI-driven issue identification, and end-to-end tracing using open telemetry. Catchpoint also offers advanced features like automated experiments to help web developers optimize performance and integrates with various alerting and ticketing systems for seamless workflow integration. The platform’s flexibility allows for customization to meet the specific needs of diverse organizations, from simple alert routing to sophisticated data integration with observability platforms.


Innovate or Perish IT Organizations Must Rethink Observability in the Cloud Age with Catchpoint

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Catchpoint Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Catchpoint

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Personnel: Mehdi Daoudi

Catchpoint’s presentation at Cloud Field Day highlighted the critical dependence of modern organizations on digital experiences for business operations and employee productivity. The increasing frequency of outages and performance issues underscores the limitations of traditional application-centric monitoring. By shifting to proactive user experience monitoring, Catchpoint argues, organizations can prevent costly incidents, improve revenue generation, and boost employee satisfaction. This approach is vital in today’s complex digital landscape where users expect the flawless performance seen in companies like Google, Apple, and TikTok.

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint, emphasized the growing complexity of modern applications, which often involve numerous third-party vendors, CDNs, and cloud providers, resulting in hundreds of requests per web page. This complexity necessitates a shift from reactive to proactive monitoring. Catchpoint’s solution offers an “internet-centric” approach, visualizing the entire internet stack and providing insights into the performance of every component, even those outside the direct control of the organization. This complements existing APM tools by providing an “outside-in” perspective, enabling faster identification and resolution of issues.

The presentation showcased how Catchpoint’s Sonar solution, combined with real-user and synthetic data, allows organizations to identify problems proactively, even those caused by external factors like fiber cuts. This data can empower manual or automated remediation efforts, for example, by dynamically rerouting traffic to alternative CDNs or cloud providers based on performance. Catchpoint also highlighted the growing trend toward AI-driven automation, using insights from monitoring data to create automated playbooks and runbooks for resolving performance issues, furthering the shift toward a proactive and autonomous IT management strategy.


Focused on Monitoring Internet User Experience Introducing Catchpoint

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Catchpoint Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Catchpoint

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Personnel: Mehdi Daoudi

Catchpoint, founded in 2008 by Mehdi Daoudi and two others, focuses monitoring on the user experience rather than solely on the application stack. Daoudi’s experience at DoubleClick, where he was responsible for resolving a major outage, solidified his belief that performance monitoring is not just an IT concern, but a critical business imperative impacting revenue, brand reputation, and employee morale. Catchpoint works with large global organizations, emphasizing the importance of trust and reliability in maintaining customer relationships and preventing costly outages.

The company advocates for an end-user-centric approach to monitoring, arguing that traditional infrastructure-up methods are insufficient in today’s complex, distributed environments. They highlight the inefficiency of waiting for massive error thresholds to trigger alerts, emphasizing the need to detect problems early, before they impact customers and cause brand damage. Catchpoint uses real-world examples of how their platform has helped companies identify and resolve performance issues much more quickly than using traditional methods, saving time, money, and reputational harm.

Daoudi stressed that many organizations overcomplicate their monitoring strategies, accumulating excessive data that hinders rather than helps problem solving. He advocates for a simpler, more focused approach where monitoring is designed to answer specific business questions related to key user actions and business outcomes. He draws on examples from Google, highlighting their performance-driven culture and the importance of designing for performance from the outset. Ultimately, Catchpoint aims to help businesses move beyond reactive troubleshooting to proactive, user-experience-driven monitoring to ensure that their digital services are consistently reliable and meet user expectations.


A Deep Dive into AIOps with Selector AI

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Selector AI Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Selector AI

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Personnel: Sachin Natu

Selector AI’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 22 offered a technical deep dive into the architecture and functionality of its platform. The core of the platform relies on machine learning (ML) techniques for data ingestion and analysis, ingesting raw data such as metrics, events, and syslogs to understand network behavior without generating content. This ML-driven process focuses on accuracy, utilizing methods like regressions, clustering, and cosine similarities to identify patterns and correlations within the data, avoiding the hallucinations often associated with Large Language Models (LLMs).

The platform’s unique strength is its ability to handle a wide variety of data sources, leveraging a declarative ETL and compiler to easily ingest new data types. This flexibility is showcased by the system’s ability to process data from diverse sources, ranging from legacy network devices and modern cloud services to custom CSV files. The system’s architecture is built on Kubernetes, ensuring horizontal scalability to handle the volume and velocity of data ingested, with a strong focus on creating context through the integration of CMDB data and metadata to give meaning to the raw data. This data integration is a critical component, bringing together disparate data silos to provide a holistic view of network operations.

Generative AI plays a supporting role in Selector AI’s platform, primarily enhancing user experience. It translates natural language queries into the platform’s query language and converts the resulting JSON output back into human-readable English. This use of generative AI is carefully managed to ensure accuracy, acting as a complementary tool to the underlying ML engine and not replacing it. The platform is designed to be flexible, allowing customers to utilize various LLMs and ensuring that the system learns and adapts to the specific details of each customer’s network infrastructure over time. The company emphasizes its commitment to customer support, providing ongoing platform maintenance and support throughout the entire lifecycle of their product implementation.


Customer Use Cases and Product Demonstration with Selector AI

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Selector AI Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Selector AI

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Personnel: John Heintz

Selector AI’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 22 showcased real customer use cases demonstrating how its platform aids operators and management teams in making critical cloud-based business decisions. John Heintz, Global Systems Engineering Director, highlighted the platform’s ability to resolve critical issues rapidly, emphasizing its unique position in meeting the daily needs of operators and management. The presentation featured a recorded demo showcasing the platform’s functionality, including the creation of “smart tickets” that automatically summarize events, provide context, and suggest remediation actions. The demo further illustrated how these tickets integrate with collaboration tools like Slack, offering a streamlined workflow for incident management.

A key aspect of the demo involved the platform’s dynamic dashboarding capabilities. These dashboards are contextually driven, automatically generated based on the details of an alert, presenting relevant topology renderings, color-coded KPIs, and drill-down capabilities for deeper investigation. The presenter addressed audience questions regarding the dashboards’ dynamic generation, highlighting the utilization of JSON data from alerts to build visualizations on the fly, while emphasizing the possibility of customer customization. He also explained how the platform’s chat ops functionality allows users to interact with the system using natural language, eliminating the need for complex queries and streamlining the investigation process.

The demo also showcased Selector AI’s capacity to integrate various data sources, including cloud providers’ native monitoring services, and its ability to correlate events across different systems to pinpoint root causes. The presenter highlighted features like correlation graphs and a time-series DVR function, which allow users to visualize the sequence of events leading to an incident. Finally, the discussion addressed the platform’s architecture, emphasizing its scalability built on Kubernetes and the use of techniques like Kafka for efficient data processing, and the flexibility to deploy agents to collect data from various environments. This ability to ingest data from diverse sources, whether existing monitoring tools or directly from the target systems, represents a core strength of the Selector AI platform.


A Day in the Life of the Enterprise Administrator with Selector AI

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Selector AI Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Selector AI

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Personnel: Sachin Natu

Selector AI’s presentation at Cloud Field Day 22, delivered by VP of Product Sachin Natu, focused on illustrating a typical day for a cloud engineer managing Fortune 500 company environments. Natu highlighted the significant challenges these engineers face, emphasizing the complexity arising from the multitude of technologies, administrative domains, and siloed views across on-premise networks, multiple ISPs, and hybrid cloud deployments. The core problem showcased was the difficulty in troubleshooting even a seemingly simple issue like a malfunctioning chatbot, requiring investigation across numerous interconnected systems and data sources.

The presentation centered around Selector AI’s platform, which aims to address these complexities by providing a Slack-native AI-powered interface. Using a scenario involving a chatbot outage, Natu demonstrated how the platform proactively identifies problems, correlates events across various systems (including network devices, ISPs, and cloud services), and provides actionable recommendations within the Slack workspace itself. The platform doesn’t simply identify issues; it also offers contextual information, such as historical data and user-added notes, to build a clear picture of the situation, allowing for more efficient and informed decision-making.

Crucially, Natu differentiated Selector AI’s approach from generative AI, emphasizing the platform’s reliance on machine learning techniques for accurate data analysis and correlation, rather than generating hypothetical solutions. While leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for natural language interaction, the core of the platform uses precise data analysis to ensure accurate representations of the systems being monitored. This approach addresses concerns about the reliability of AI-driven insights in critical infrastructure management and ensures that the recommendations provided are grounded in factual data and historical context. The presentation concluded with a planned deeper dive into the platform’s architecture and data processing methods.


Enhanced Observability and Correlation for Hybrid Networks with AIOps from Selector AI

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Selector AI Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Selector AI

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Personnel: Deba Mohanty

Selector AI, presented at Cloud Field Day, showing an AIOps solution providing comprehensive visibility and intelligence into the complex networks, cloud infrastructure, and applications of large enterprises.  Unlike existing monitoring tools focusing on single data sources (metrics, logs, events), Selector ingests diverse data types from various sources including existing databases and monitoring tools,  config events, alerts, topology information, and even CSV files. This unified approach allows for advanced event correlation, drastically reducing alert volume and the associated workload on operations teams.

Selector’s natural language interface is a key differentiator, enabling users to query the platform using plain English rather than complex SQL queries.  This, coupled with a digital twin capability for operational insights and “what-if” analysis, provides a significantly more user-friendly and accessible experience. The platform integrates with various communication channels like Slack and Microsoft Teams and ITSM tools, enabling proactive alerting and reactive querying across different teams and workflows, breaking down the typical siloed approach of NOC centres.

Selector’s deployment model offers flexibility, supporting public and private cloud environments, on-premise installations, and even integration directly into existing Google Cloud or AWS instances.  Importantly, their pricing model is not tied to data volume or user count, instead focusing on a predictable cost structure based on monitored devices and use cases. This allows for more straightforward budgeting and encourages the ingestion of larger datasets, which in turn improves the accuracy and effectiveness of Selector’s insights.  While Selector integrates with existing tools, its ultimate aim is to provide a single source of truth, eventually replacing the need for multiple, disparate monitoring systems as customers realize its efficiency and comprehensive capabilities.


Deploy Critical Network Services with Infrastructure-Free DDI with Infoblox NIOS-X as a Service

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Businesses are embracing hybrid (i.e., on-premises, public and private cloud) and multi-cloud deployments to modernize their infrastructures and IT operations for greater agility, speed and simplicity. These trends are driven by the need to innovate faster, streamline operations, modernize workloads and even integrate environments during and after mergers and acquisitions. However, deploying and managing critical network services such as DDI in these environments has become a major challenge.

To address this, enterprise organizations increasingly reduce hardware footprints in distributed locations and seek true cloud solutions as they modernize and scale their networks. These requirements have become foundational and span network infrastructures, from cloud workload migrations and new cloud deployments to private data centers and branch offices. By embracing such flexible solutions, businesses can enhance their operational efficiency and adaptability in today’s dynamic IT landscape.

Infoblox has introduced NIOS-X as a Service, the industry’s most advanced cloud delivery solution for the deployment and management of critical network services for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. NIOS-X as a Service combines operational efficiency with exceptional reliability and leverages a new as-a-service model to reduce management overhead while ensuring the ease and simplicity of infrastructure-free delivery.

We’ll also demonstrate common use cases how NIOS-X as a Service modernizes infrastructure, reduces management overhead and utilizes an infrastructure-free deployment model for efficient and reliable critical network services delivery, supporting network automation and network transformation.


Discovery and Analysis for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Visibility with Infoblox Universal Asset Insights

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Organizations continue to adopt cloud strategies and are challenged by the mix of disparate systems for managing network services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, partner networks and a multitude of underlying physical devices. The absence of centralized visibility exacerbates these challenges, resulting in a lack of awareness of what is on the network, what is happening on the network and who is responsible for it.

Limited visibility into subnets and other network resources provisioned can lead to misconfigurations and outages. Manually tracking the IP addresses and resources using spreadsheets or other in-house tools can lead to visibility gaps or resource conflicts, resulting in longer troubleshooting times and the inability to manage growing environments at scale.

Lack of centralized visibility across hybrid networks is also a security risk. Cloud sprawl is a significant issue for organizations, and the inability to track what is on the network and its usage can result in undiscovered zombie assets and orphaned resources and services, leading to increased costs or exploitation by malicious actors.

Universal Asset Insights automates the discovery and analysis of IP-based and non-IP-based assets across public clouds, on-premises networks, IoT/OT devices and third-party applications and keeps IP address management (IPAM) updated without manual intervention. The expanded asset discovery provides unparalleled, contextualized and near–real-time visibility into the extensive on-premises assets and multi-cloud network assets. Combined with Infoblox critical network services, including DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI), Universal Asset Insights enhances the scope of network visibility and accuracy of IPAM. NetOps, CloudOps and SecOps now have a trusted infrastructure-wide central repository of assets and connectivity details, which improves network visibility, network automation, operational efficiency and contextual awareness across the entire environment.

We’ll also demonstrate how Infoblox Universal Asset Insights helps identify and remediate zombie assets across multi-cloud networks.


Mastering Network Services in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud with Infoblox Universal DDI Management

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Are you among the many IT professionals, CloudOps teams, and NetOps teams struggling to manage your hybrid and multi-cloud environments effectively? While multi-cloud environments promise faster innovation, best-of-breed solutions and streamlined operations, they also introduce complexity in providing critical network services, such as DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI).

As organizations expand their multi-cloud deployments, CloudOps and NetOps teams often juggle multiple DNS solutions across various clouds and on-prem locations. Most cloud providers offer DNS services that are limited to their own environments and lack cross-cloud and on-premises integration. This fragmented approach makes network automation impractical and leads to increased management overhead, manual update processes, configuration errors, and ultimately, service outages and higher costs.

As an integral part of your organization, how do you consistently deliver critical network services like DNS and DHCP across your entire environment? Public cloud DNS solutions, such as AWS Route 53, Azure DNS and Google Cloud DNS, work well within their respective clouds but fall short when extending services across other clouds or on-premises environments. This often results in CloudOps teams managing each service separately, sometimes even requiring isolated account management within a single cloud. Meanwhile, NetOps teams must maintain additional DNS services for on-premises locations.

Hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures are an absolute necessity in today’s fast-paced world, and reliable network services are critical to their success. Learn how Infoblox Universal DDI Management modernizes the delivery and management of these services, while also improving business operations at scale, and how it unifies DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management across all on-premises, private and multi-cloud deployments, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We’ll demonstrate its powerful capabilities by showcasing its seamless integrations with AWS Route 53, Microsoft Azure DNS, and Google Cloud Platform DNS. This approach also facilitates network transformation, ensuring your organization stays ahead in the dynamic IT landscape.


Reinventing Critical Network Services with Infoblox

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Mukesh Gupta

Mukesh Gupta, Infoblox EVP and Chief Product Officer, introduces the Infoblox Universal DDI Product Suite. This suite offers groundbreaking solutions for unifying critical network services management across hybrid, multi-cloud environments, providing in-depth visibility and insights with infrastructure-free deployment.

Infoblox, a leader in DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) services, simplifies network management to enhance responsiveness and cybersecurity. Organizations adopting hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures face challenges like human errors, increased costs, and security vulnerabilities. Infoblox addresses these with innovative solutions that improve efficiency, consistency, and resiliency.

The presentation highlights Infoblox’s journey since 1999, focusing on uniting networking and security. Key features include Universal DDI Management for efficient service delivery, Universal Asset Insights for comprehensive network visibility, and NIOS-X as a Service for modernized, infrastructure-free deployment.

Infoblox’s approach to network automation and transformation ensures seamless cloud networking and modernization, enhancing overall network performance and security.


Cisco Hypershield: AI-Driven Security for Dynamic Environments

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

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Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Andrew Ossipov, Jeroen Wittock

This session explains how you can use Cisco Hypershield for autonomous segmentation in dynamic ever changing environments. The presenters cover how Cisco Hypershield uses AI to detect and prevent CVE’s from being exploited by an attacker.


Redefining Universal Zero Trust Network Access

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Nitin Kumar

In this session, Cisco covers Zero Trust Access accelerates zero trust access for all users, wherever they work and no matter where resources reside – powered by highly performant network access, modern identity security, and resilient architecture for “Five 9s” availability. One of the only SSE vendors to provide cross-platform identity context, Cisco enables IT teams to achieve zero trust maturity faster and with more resilient architecture.


Cisco Meraki Access Manager: Cloud-Native Zero-Trust

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Alex Burger, Stephen Orr

In this session, Cisco unveils Meraki Access Manager, a new product providing highly-scalable, single pane of glass zero-trust network access controls within the Meraki cloud management platform. Access Manager’s key features have been built to ensure rapid adoption of micro-segmentation, reduction in OpEx, and immediate enablement of dynamic authorization for least-privileged security architectures.


Exploring Wi-Fi 7 Access Points and Wireless Innovations

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Benham, Minse Kim

Discover the latest Wi-Fi 7 Access Points and explore new Cisco Wireless software innovations, including intelligent wireless services.