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Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.
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Fortinet has refreshed its branch office firewalls, adding power and features to its next-generation FortiGate G-series devices. FortiManager lets customers create and deploy security policies across multiple firewalls, simplifying administration in large, distributed enterprises, according to Fortinet.
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Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. IT leaders are responding with a variety of different microsegmentation approaches, all designed to isolate workloads from each other and prevent unauthorized lateral movements. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working.
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We intend to make the platform even more powerful by integrating it with Fortinet’s firewall and WAAP capabilities to further help customers identify, prioritize, and remediate risks and threats in complex cloud-native infrastructure from code to cloud,” Madison stated.
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AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.”
It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware. The idea that security will be baked into core networking components, such as switches, routers or servers, is the goal of Cisco’s recently announced AI-based Hypershield architecture.
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But looking for a SASE offering with a unified agent that includes functionality beyond Universal ZTNA , such as network architecture, cloud-delivered security, and endpoint protection is important. Installing a firewall at these locations could be cost-prohibitive, and most IoT devices don’t support agents, making security challenging.
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