CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

5 key findings: AI usage and threat trends The ThreatLabz research team analyzed activity from over 800 known AI/ML applications between February and December 2024. The surge was fueled by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grammarly, and other generative AI tools, which accounted for the majority of AI-related traffic from known applications.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

It also supports SIM-based authentication to identify 5G users and devices, enabling granular policy enforcement and utilizes artificial intelligence technology to detect and prevent sophisticated AI threats, according to Palo Alto.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Today, enterprises are increasingly turning to Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) features with the goal of moving toward a more proactive user and application-aware approach to enterprise security. A long-term Palo Alto […].

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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. What is SASE?

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Network World

JULY 8, 2024

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

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Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Juniper Networks has expanded its security portfolio with an architecture design that includes AI-based predictive threat support and a new family of firewalls, all designed to protect distributed data center resources. The central piece of the expanded portfolio is the new Juniper Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. It’s particularly well-suited for applications that require rapid data transfer, such as scientific computing, financial modeling and video rendering.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Firewalld is a commonly used Linux firewall service while notables provides filtering and classification of network packets. This transition brings improved application performance, faster code execution, and enhanced scaling capabilities while maintaining backward compatibility for existing applications.

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CTOvision

MAY 22, 2014

Organizations are giving more priority to development of information security policies, as protecting their assets is one of the prominent things that needs to be considered. Lack of clarity in InfoSec policies can lead to catastrophic damages which cannot be recovered. Security policies are tailored to the specific mission goals.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The vendor’s new Secure AI-Native Edge offering and cloud-based Security Assurance service are designed to deliver a cohesive view of network health, performance, and security metrics with a goal of resolving problems quickly and centrally enforcing enterprise security policies. version of Juniper Apstra.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Many of our customers may know us as a networking security company delivering firewalls. We think this is an entirely new category of switch which is going to enable a set of applications, the first of which is Cisco Hypershield, which lets every single switch in the network becomes a policy enforcement point.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

And the next step is to assign an access control policy to those devices, he said. The idea is that we’re not only detecting anomalies that could indicate compromise, we’re also recommending policy changes that can help customers respond to those threats,” Lunetta said.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

By Bob Gourley Data Science Powered CloudSOC™ Solution Enables Security for Cloud Applications and Services by Providing Transaction Visibility, Threat Detection, Controls and Forensics Analysis. Elastica applies machine learning technology to provide in depth visibility and controls for a broad range of cloud applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI is no different from other applications or cloud environments already covered by existing defenses and processes. Anecdotal evidence shows that even LLM firewall providers havent encountered attacks in recent months. The first should be to have a clear, common-sense policy around your data usage, with internal limits for access.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

The generative AI tool is called Project Cypress, and it was announced last year as a tech preview, says Umesh Mahajan, vice president and general manager for application networking and security at Broadcom, which completed its acquisition of VMware last November. Once they are comfortable, then we can turn it to autonomous actions.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

NIST, other government agencies, and industry bodies point towards the policy enforcement point (PEP) as the gateway device or service that performs this separation, gating access based on different authentication and authorization requirements, depending on the sensitivity of the resource.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

Gartner had put its finger on a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faced as employees shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and applications migrated to the cloud. The redesigned self-service Cato Management Application has functionalities for controlling the entire service through a single dashboard.

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Desai, product marketing lead for 5G fixed wireless access and WAN application assurance for SD-WANs at Cisco, in a blog about the new devices. Cellular gateways transpose a cellular signal into wired WAN Ethernet connectivity, enabling high-speed, always-on cellular network connectivity for business-critical operations, wrote Pratik S.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

The AI-Native Networking Platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution.

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Network World

AUGUST 12, 2024

Enabling our distributed global workforce with rapid yet secure access to business-critical applications would be key to that success. It was an obvious choice because Zscaler’s 150+ global data centers enable users to take the shortest path to the applications they need to do their jobs as well as their internet destinations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Furthermore, when data and workloads reside on-premises, a firewall provides an extra layer of protection. So even when a setting gets misconfigured, there’s a lower chance of exposure outside the firewall. But if something gets misconfigured in the cloud, the risk is much higher.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This has meant updating cloud, networking, and security infrastructure to adapt to the new realities of hybrid work and a world where employees will need to connect to and access business applications from anywhere and from any device, in a secure manner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Customers want to be able to transfer money to anyone, anywhere; get an answer instantly regarding their loan application; and have access to their deposits right away, with no hold on their funds. Then, based on policies defined by the operator, SD-WAN steers the traffic along the best path to ensure data moves along the fastest route.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

In the case of cloud infrastructure, users are responsible for application security, identity and access management, client and endpoint protection, data classification and user behavior. The same holds true in a SaaS environment, although software and service providers assume a somewhat greater role in application and access controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

This growth is certainly a testament to some of the more well-known benefits of SD-WAN technology , such as centralized network policy management, network flexibility and application-aware routing. The basic firewall functionality may not be enough to help protect enterprise networks. billion in 2024.

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Network World

JUNE 13, 2024

The reason is that cyberattacks are getting more sophisticated and firewalls and VPNs were built for a time when most people were working within the confines of an office. In the cyber world, this translates to performing lateral propagation to gain access to crown-jewel applications. Stay up to date. Stay up to date.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

Protecting data and monitoring user behavior used to be relatively simple when everyone was behind the corporate firewall. A holistic solution reduces complexity and benefits the customer by only requiring them to define their policy once. ”. Lock the front door. Secure the windows. Take the native sharing functionality in Google Docs.

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Fountainhead

MARCH 25, 2013

What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). They dont interact with the applications unique. solution if you really understand the specific application. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Monday, March 25, 2013. cloud only helps to a point.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2018

One of the key benefits of cloud-based networking is increased security for applications and data. This means an enterprise can set all its security policies in one place, and it can push traffic through cloud-based security functions such as next-generation firewall, secure web gateway, advanced threat protection, and so on.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings. Also, more organizations are using cloud and hybrid environments, which cannot be secured by the usual firewalls and other conventional security tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

The days when most companies completely shied away from using cloud resources for highly sensitive data or applications have passed, and for good reason. Zero trust can also apply to other cloud infrastructure, including servers, databases, and applications.) But you need to know what to look for in a cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

He says, A lot of security mismanagement happens less due to poor technology, and more due to inefficient policies and frameworks. Nikhil also mentions the firewall system leveraged by the organization to protect their application from injection of data by an external bad actor on their web-based applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

This digital transformation requires businesses to bring together data, applications, and users in a secure way—across digital and hybrid environments that are distributed, complex, and expanding. The shift to the public cloud from private data centers has been swift and sweeping, and cloud-based applications are the new standard.

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Network World

AUGUST 23, 2024

Eliminate lateral movement : Leveraging user-to-app (and app-to-app) segmentation, users connect directly to applications, not the network, eliminating lateral movement risk. It can also help find and stop possible attackers from moving around through identity threat detection and response (ITDR) and deception capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2023

With users and applications becoming increasingly distributed, the prospect of delivering Zero Trust Security services via the cloud has propelled the concept of SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) architectures to similarly buzzworthy heights. Firewall capabilities will be reconsidered.

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