- [Instructor] We already went over
Cisco Platform Exchange Grid or PX Grid
and how you can use it to integrate third party solutions
with Cisco products like the Cisco ISE
or the Cisco Identity Service Engine.
However, there are several other security products
that also support APIs
for you to interact with them in a programmable way.
For example, the Firepower next generation firewalls,
also support different APIs to monitor
and configure those devices.
Things like StealthWatch on-premise and cloud.
They also have APIs and also they have, you know,
the ability for you to use the enterprise data exporter.
Now, in addition, you also have solutions
like the Cisco Threat Response APIs, and basically
these Threat Response APIs are a collection of APIs
which can be used to integrate your Cisco devices
and, you know, Cisco security products
and third party security solutions as well.
And you can automate the instant response process
or at least accelerate that process
and manage threat intelligence and provide, you know,
different type of capabilities to, you know,
for additional security context data
in a single location in the Cisco Threat Response Solution.
But what I want to highlight in here is that Cisco DevNet
and as you can tell, I'm a big fan of DevNet,
it also has several labs that you can complete
to get familiarized with threat response APIs.
And whenever it comes to, you know, programmability
and Python and, you know, APIs and things like that
the more you practice the better.
Now I have like an example of a Python script
that you can actually use
to interact with the threat response APIs
in my GitHub repository that I'm highlighting the screen.
I also invite you to navigate
to the Developer.Cisco.com/site/security
and go over the assisting
exercises and actually the list of the APIs
that are available for you and, you know, take advantage
of these exercises
so you can actually become familiar
with the different Cisco security APIs,
just like you actually were, you know
navigating previously for other products.
But this one specifically are for Cisco security products.
Now the CCMP Security Concentration Exam
that is called the Automating Cisco Security Solution
or the S-Auto Exam.
Every time that I refer to S-Auto, you know
that is our exam that, you know, test expects you
that you will know how to program and interact
with these APIs.
For the Core exam,
so for the S-Core exam, you only need to be able
to actually identify them, to know, you know,
some of the most common Python scripts,
but even not going into the details
of the actual, you know, programmable interaction
with every single API, but at least have some familiarity
with common Python scripts that are used to interact
with these APIs.
Now, Cisco is always adding additional APIs to their list.
So I strongly suggest
for you to take advantage of these resources
and keep up with the latest information at definite.