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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise.

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Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

The technology underpinning URWB came to Cisco in 2020 when it acquired Italian company Fluidmesh Networks. However, it’s not clear how easy it would be for an attacker to target the vulnerability directly, given that this type of access point is normally isolated on a dedicated IoT network segment.

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Rethinking the WAN: Zero Trust network access can play a bigger role

Network World

The WAN as initially conceived was about one simple job: the WAN was the network that “connects my sites to each other.” That is, the network connecting users in corporate sites to corporate IT resources in other corporate sites or perhaps colocation facilities. It was all inside-to-inside traffic.

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How the Dark Web enables access to corporate networks

Tech Republic Security

The number of ads selling access to corporate networks has continued to increase from 2019 to 2020 and into 2021, says Positive Technologies.

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VMware plan disaggregates servers; offloads network virtualization and security

Network World

At its virtual VMworld 2020 event the company previewed a new architecture called Project Monterey that goes a long way toward melding bare-metal servers, graphics processing units (GPUs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), network interface cards (NICs) and security into a large-scale virtualized environment.

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Notre Dame scores big with Wi-Fi 6E stadium upgrade

Network World

And now, thanks to a major network expansion, theres no shortage of high-bandwidth streaming. Designed for a maximum capacity of 40Gbps, the 6E network triples the bandwidth of the prior network. 28, the Wi-Fi was able to comfortably support a network load that hit 22.37 In the teams first game on Sept.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. billion by 2025.

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