CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings. SD-WAN is neither inherently secure nor naturally prone to attacks.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

The cloud-based Prisma SASE 5G package melds network security functions including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ) with wide area network (WAN) capabilities such as SD-WAN.

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Network World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a cloud-based service that combined networking and security so that users located anywhere could safely and efficiently access applications and data located anywhere? That’s the aim of SASE (rhymes with gassy). To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. In fact, most applications are now cloud-hosted, presenting additional IT challenges to ensure a high-quality end-user experience for the remote worker, home office worker, or branch office.

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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. SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security.

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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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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 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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2017

Wrapping up an SD-WAN workshop session with a client last week, I reflected on how rapidly the branch office WAN connectivity and management model is changing. Some great opportunities are emerging for enterprise IT teams that can materially impact how the network is designed, paid for and managed. Here are some thoughts: 1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024.

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WAN Network Security Firewall 246

Network World

AUGUST 23, 2023

Versa is bolstering the AI security management features of its integrated Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) package to include improved malware detection for Advanced Threat Protection, network microsegmention and generative AI protection to help customers better detect and quickly mitigate threats to their networked service and applications.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Hypershield support for AMD Pensando DPUs and Intel IPUs Cisco added support for AMD Pensando DPUs to its new AI-based HyperShield , a self-upgrading security fabric that’s designed to protect distributed applications, devices and data. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before the start of the Covid epidemic, a traditional WAN architecture with centralized security worked well for Village Roadshow. When the pandemic led the company to transition to a hybrid workforce, with most people working from home or from a remote site , it prompted Village Roadshow to rethink its network and security approach.

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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. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. Download our editors’ PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide today! SSE is but one side of the coin.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Marvis can detect and describe countless network problems, including persistently failing wired or wireless clients, bad cables, access-point coverage holes, problematic WAN links, and insufficient radio-frequency capacity. version of Juniper Apstra.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The 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, Juniper says.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some switches can operate on Layer 3, and some routers can perform switching tasks, but in general switches operate on the LAN, and routers typically connect LANs to the Internet and other routers on wide-area networks (WAN). These networks utilize Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to send and receive data from other LANs and WANs.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

SSE – secure service edge – is a cloud-based way to deliver secure access to corporate systems, SaaS applications, and the Internet in general. The five elements of SASE are CASB, secure web gateway, ZTNA, firewall as a service, and integrated SD-WAN. SSE is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN, the network access part of the equation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. But SD-WAN created a new problem: security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

According to Gartner®, SSE secures access to the web, cloud services, and private applications regardless of the location of the user, the device they are using, or where that application is hosted.[1] SSE is a great complement to SD-WAN , and jointly they create SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). See you there.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

For retail security teams, the network perimeter continues to transform as data and applications move to the cloud, more devices and merchandise are connected in-store, and users are working from outside headquarters and branch locations. WiFi and SD-WAN for flexible and enhanced connectivity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. For networking security leaders, too many blind spots in their network security operations means too many vulnerabilities. Today, it can be anywhere. .

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Network Security WAN Firewall 245

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

A VPN lets employees “tunnel” in through the corporate firewall using an encrypted connection that rides on top of the public internet. Even more alarming was when frustrated users disconnected from the VPN entirely to log in to their SaaS applications, thus bypassing any of the security controls and increasing the overall threat surface.

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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. See you there. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SASE supports multiple secure access use cases—such as private applications, cloud applications, and SaaS applications—with flexible connectivity options across any user, branch, campus, microbranch location. 3 Why the trough of disillusionment?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

However, the increased complexity of a distributed application architecture brought on by digital transformation continues to challenge even the largest security operations. The evaluation process needs to involve a higher level of third-party scrutiny for cloud-based applications. Securing the shift to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

With the proliferation of hybrid clouds, SD-WAN, and a plethora of connected devices and digital platforms, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to ensure end-to-end security is in place. The basic firewall functionality may not be enough to help protect enterprise networks. Learn more. Network Security

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. This role requires the ability to build web and mobile applications with a focus on user experience, functionality, and usability.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco ties AppDynamics to Microsoft Azure for cloud application management Aug. 30, 2024 : Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

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Network Security Data Center Applications 370

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In short, SASE brings together software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services such as cloud access security broker, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access. We also work closely with your IT team to make migration and integration with your applications and services as smooth as possible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2022

According to Gartner, which coined the term, SASE combines network security with WAN capabilities , and can encompass multiple components such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, cloud access security broker functions, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) in a cloud-native delivery model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). But even with all the hype, most considered SASE as something to put into practice in the future. What is SASE?

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WAN Network Security Cloud 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). But even with all the hype, most considered SASE as something to put into practice in the future. What is SASE?

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