Integrate DDI into your Cisco networking and security toolkit

BlueCat and Cisco deliver the fully integrated, automation-driven, security-focused network you’ve been working toward. To achieve your business transformation goals, it’s time to bring core DDI infrastructure into tools like Cisco Umbrella, Cisco DNA Center, and Cisco ACI that you use every day.

Today’s IT enterprise must deliver highly complex functionality and security where users, devices, and data operate— at the network edge. Doing this requires a fully integrated network infrastructure powered by automation—one which operates seamlessly across environments.

As the core infrastructure behind all network communications, DDI systems are a critical component of the high performance systems that end users demand. They also provide a strong foundation for network security via the connections and usage patterns flowing through your systems every day.

Through its partnership with Cisco, BlueCat brings a depth of visibility and control that many network and security teams never thought possible. By fully integrating DDI into the network and security management systems that you use every day, BlueCat is helping deliver the agile networks that your users need.

Cisco Umbrella

Identify and mitigate threats

BlueCat and Cisco deliver a new level of context and actionable data that security teams can use to rapidly identify and mitigate threats.

How it works

BlueCat uses lightweight, client-facing DNS service points to collect granular information about devices and user activity right at the first hop in any network query. BlueCat sends the source IP and additional client-level data to Cisco Umbrella so you can identify and mitigate threats quickly. BlueCat also applies security policies to internal, east-west queries. These policies can be informed by the context of external north-south policies shared by Cisco Umbrella back to BlueCat.

Key benefits
  • Find threats faster through rapid correlation of external threat data with source IP
  • Visibility and control over internal, east-west queries (around 60% of network traffic)
  • Cast a wider security net with enhanced threat intelligence
  • Reduce network costs and optimize SD-WAN performance by eliminating data center backhauls
  • Improve customer experience with fast, easy deployment – no matter what DDI solution is in place
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Cisco Meraki integration with BlueCat Micetro

Improved DHCP orchestration for all Meraki SD-WAN enabled locations

Cisco Meraki ensures network performance and security policies across all remote locations for a consistent customer experience and simplified troubleshooting. Create the same uniformity in managing DHCP across all areas of your organization, now with more visibility, context, and granular role-based access controls (RBAC) – all within a single unified UI to view and orchestrate both corporate network and remote sites.

How it works

Simply connect with an API key to centralize DHCP management across your Meraki SD-WAN environment (MX appliances) with more visibility, context, and granular role-based access controls (RBAC).

Key benefits
  • Orchestrate all SD-WAN enabled locations using a single pane of glass for all your DDI data, from the cloud to the corporate network and even your SD-WAN enabled remote sites.
  • Greater visibility and detailed insights into IP address space, DHCP leases, and active connections.
  • More granular control over role-based access controls (RBAC) by allowing each network site’s IT architect to make changes only to their designated site.
  • Seamless integration with Meraki, Micetro is easily and non-disruptively deployed, it quickly discovers, and imports all Meraki DHCP data.
  •  Enable remote management at scale for thousands of locations​, using a single platform: BlueCat Micetro​.
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Cisco DNA Center

Simplify network management

Cisco DNA Center delivers the elegant, intent-based networking solution that IT managers need to simplify their operations.

How it works

Integration with BlueCat’s core DDI platform brings that vision of intent-based networking down to the infrastructure level. By leveraging a single source of truth for DDI data and BlueCat’s automation-friendly architecture, network managers can bring a new level of efficiency to their day-to-day operations.

Key benefits
  • Reduce manual errors and downtime through automated validation of IP addresses
  • Manage networks efficiently with automated allocation and management of IP addresses
  • Reduce network complexity by managing the entire IP address workflow through a single platform
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Cisco ACI

Gain automation efficiencies

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), the industry’s leading software-defined networking solution, integrates with BlueCat’s enterprise-grade DNS automation platform so network managers get a centralized point of view that reduces the burden of managing complex DDI environments. Through this integration you can also share and synchronize subnets, IP addresses, and additional network information within the ACI fabric.

Key benefits
  • Enhance visibility by viewing DDI assets directly in Cisco ACI
  • Reduce manual data entry by synchronizing IP data automatically
  • Speed up troubleshooting by assessing your entire DDI infrastructure in a single view
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