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Fortinet eases firewall management with hardware-as-a-service package

Network World

Fortinet is unveiling a hardware-as-a-service offering that promises to ease the stress of keeping up with the latest firewall technology. The new FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS) offering lets customers choose the hardware they want the FortiGate next-generation firewalls to run on, and Fortinet will configure and manage the devices.

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81% of firms back a Zero Trust approach to cyber defense

Network World

With growing concerns over advanced threats, VPN security issues, network complexity, and adversarial AI, enterprises are showing increased interest in a zero trust approach to security and moving away from firewall-and-VPN based architecture. Zero trust is anticipated to be a defining trend in the cybersecurity landscape by 2025.

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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

The platform provides visibility, control and governance over the network as well as dynamic service insertion, allowing organizations to integrate third-party services like firewalls into their network. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Those organizations that don’t make that change risk losing their customers to those that adopted an agile, customer-centric approach to business. However, for many financial services organizations, security and agility traditionally haven’t been mutually achievable—oftentimes, one was sacrificed for the other.

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Contact Centers Have Moved To Cloud. What’s Next?

Forrester IT

The remaining outliers of demand are large, highly customized implementations which preserve legacy on premise software, or organizations that wish to maintain the technology inside their firewall. Agility, flexibility, and the ability to rapidly shift capacity are all key elements AD&D […].

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F5 integrates security for multi-cloud app protection.

Network World

F5 Networks has rolled out an integrated, cloud-based security platform and services aimed at protecting widely distributed enterprise applications.

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IT pros need to weigh in on that ‘sassy’ security model

Network World

Cloud services that provide both network and security intelligence are gaining popularity because they are easy to consume and they improve agility. Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform. To read this article in full, please click here

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