CCIE Security Updates In Progress!

Thought I would drop everyone a note letting you know that I just finished the final draft of a BOM and sent it off to Cisco to procure all new hardware we will need for v3 of the new CCIE Security Blueprint. All 16 of ProctorLabs’ Security vRacks are due to receive new IPS 4240s and 3560s. We have already been running ISRs in all of our vRacks for many years now – so your experience doing a ‘wr’ or a ’sh run’ or a ‘reload’ has always and will continue to be a fast one, as well as up to date for what the new lab will test on. 

Some of you I have already talked to recently have stated that you are at the beginning of your studies for the lab and are therefore choosing to focus solely on the new v3 blueprint. For those of you in this category, you of course not only need the new hardware, but also need the ISR routers upgraded to 12.4(xx)T, your ASAs upgraded to v8.x, the ACS server upgraded to v4.1, and new VPN clients on the XP workstation. Stay tuned as we will very shortly (possibly as soon as next week) be announcing a clever way to dynamically upgrade your vRack’s software for this new blueprint based on what you tell us you are studying for.

So stay tuned!

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