How to install Nutanix CE on vSphere7

The purpose of this blog post (in collaboration with fellow Nutanix NTC Anwar Khan) is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to configure the Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on vSphere 7. The community edition ISO, metadata file, and the Prism Central tar files can be found and downloaded from the Nutanix Community site....

Enrolling a Backup or New device for Duo

This guide and the instructions that follow are intended to be used by your IT staff when configuring the Duo mobile app for an employee that has acquired a new mobile phone (replacing an older phone) or has decided to setup Duo on a secondary device (for example, an iPad) as a backup. Please ask...

Duo and Okta

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to configure the Duo mobile app and OKTA Admin portal to ensure two-factor authentication (i.e. 2FA) is enabled which provides protection for your OKTA environment. For official DUO guidance, please review Duo and OKTA which can be found here.Log into...

Creating a Duo Username Alias

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to configure a Duo alias for an employee of your organization. An example of this use case is a Mac user provided a corporate MacBook that includes multiple local Mac accounts. You may ask why multiple local Mac accounts? In...

macOS Authentication Process for the Cisco Duo Mobile App

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to test the configuration of the Duo mobile app with your MacBook. For official DUO guidance for macOS, please review Duo Authentication for macOS found here.Select your Mac Username (i.e., John Appleseed), enter your Mac password and then the Enter...

Windows Authentication Process for the Cisco Duo Mobile App

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to test the configuration of the Duo mobile app with your Windows workstation. For official DUO guidance for Windows, please review Test Your Setup found here. At the Windows login screen, enter your Windows username and password. 2. The DUO...

Cisco Duo Authentication for macOS

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to install and setup the Duo client for macOS (official DUO guidance for macOS can be found here). It is very important that you follow the guidance provided in the link above including the embedded video to configure the Duo...

Cisco Duo Authentication for Windows

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the guidance and the steps needed to install and setup the Duo client for Windows (official DUO guidance for Windows can be found here). Once the Duo installer has been downloaded (at the time of this post, v4.1.3 was the current version), please proceed with the...

Umbrella Roaming Client

As a follow-up to my Cisco Umbrella post, the following will guide you through the Umbrella Roaming client installation for the Windows operating system (the Mac installation process is similar). To start the installation (Windows), double-click on the .msi file and then click Next (this can also be scripted as a deployment via batch file)...

The Cisco Umbrella

In todays' world, users are able to work from anywhere across the globe and this includes remote, home, or while on travel. Cisco Umbrella secures your apps, data, and users wherever they are. Cisco Umbrella is a cloud-delivered security platform that leverages DNS as the first point of inspection to provide the first line of...