Zero-Trust for Enterprise Networks, 1st edition

Published by Cisco Press (May 21, 2025) © 2025

  • Josh Halley
  • Dhrumil Prajapati
  • Ariel Leza
  • Vinay Saini
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Title overview

Zero Trust in Resilient Cloud and Network Architectures, written by a team of senior Cisco engineers, offers a real-world, hands-on guide to deploying automated architectures with a focus on segmentation at any scale--from proof-of-concept to large, mission-critical infrastructures. Whether you're new to software-defined and cloud-based architectures or looking to enhance an existing deployment, this book will help you:

  • Implement Zero Trust: Segment and secure access while mitigating IoT risks
  • Automate Network Operations: Simplify provisioning, authentication, and traffic management
  • Deploy at scale following best practices for resilient and secure enterprise-wide network rollouts
  • Integrate with Cloud Security, bridging on-prem and cloud environments seamlessly
  • Learn from Real-World Case Studies: Gain insights from the largest Cisco enterprise deployments globally

This edition covers Meraki, EVPN, Pub/Sub, and Terraform and Ansible-based deployments with a key focus on network resilience and survivability. It also explores quantum security and Industrial Zero Trust, along with Cisco's latest evolutions in software-defined networking, providing exclusive insights into its enhancements, architecture improvements, and operational best practices. If you're a network, security, or automation specialist, this book is your essential guide to building the next-generation, zero-trust network.

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Table of contents

  • Chapter 1 Zero Trust Demystified
  • Chapter 2 Secure Automation and Orchestration Overview
  • Chapter 3 Zero Trust Network Deployment
  • Chapter 4 Security and Segmentation
  • Chapter 5 DHCP and Dynamic Addressing Concepts
  • Chapter 6 Automating the Campus
  • Chapter 7 Plug-and-Play and Zero-Touch Provisioning
  • Chapter 8 Routing and Traffic Engineering
  • Chapter 9 Authentication and Authorization
  • Chapter 10 Quantum Security
  • Chapter 11 Network Convergence and Considerations
  • Chapter 12 Software-Defined Network Deployment Best Practices
  • Chapter 13 Wired and Wireless Assurance
  • Chapter 14 Large-Scale Software-Defined Network Deployment
  • Chapter 15 Cloud-Native Security Foundation
  • Chapter 16 Cloud-Native Application Security
  • Chapter 17 Data Center Segmentation On-Prem to the Cloud
  • Chapter 18 Using Common Policy to Enforce Security
  • Chapter 19 Workload Mobility: On-Prem to Cloud
  • Chapter 20 Resilience and Survivability
  • Chapter 21 Zero Trust in Industrial Manufacturing Vertical
  • Chapter 22 Third-Party SDN Integrations
  • Chapter 23 Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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