Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

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. Only 15% do not have a plan to embrace zero trust this year.

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

East-West Firewalls or NAC solutions are very expensive, and many solutions force costly upgrades and require expensive downtime to deploy. This allows for a unified and consistent segmentation approach, instead of the sprawl of agent-based microsegmentation, NAC and Firewall ACLs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Cisco is coming out with four next-generation firewall boxes aimed at giving smaller organizations protection that is better sized to their needs and engineered to minimize performance hits as additional security services are turned on.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 2, 2020

Let’s face it: Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) rarely excite the security imagination. WAFs have been ubiquitous for at least 15 years and play an important role in detecting and blocking “OWASP Top 10” application level attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2019

As the commercial enterprise firewall approaches its 30th birthday, it is hard to overstate how dramatically the product has evolved. This 2,700-word research report looks the current state of next-generation firewall technology.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 29, 2022

Traditional security architecture focused on a hardened perimeter with a vulnerable interior. The post Cisco Secure Workload and Secure Firewall: Strong Alone, Stronger Together appeared first on TechRepublic. One key change is in the approach to security.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

encrypted threats in one quarter with Zscaler By replacing traditional firewalls and VPNs with Zscaler, Wipro strengthened its defenses with inline TLS/SSL inspection of all internet and SaaS traffic to detect and block encrypted threats. Case study: Learn how Wipro blocked 8.2M Read their story here.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 10, 2022

Firewalls have been an integral part of the enterprise network architecture. But with the shift to digital business models the once-sturdy firewall has gone from a security staple to a security risk. Read more to learn the five major risks brought on by legacy firewalls in a world of cloud and mobile.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Also on the NGFW front, Palo Alto tied together its firewalls with Pentes Hypercore package to let customers see applications, services, subscribers and devices on a private wireless network so that customers can secure, multitenant private wireless deployments.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle. The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0, Kyndryl has security and networking relationships with other partners as well, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia and Fortinet.)

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Zero Trust is an architecture that verifies every user and device that tries to access the network and enforces strict access control and identity management that limits authorized users to accessing only those resources they need to do their jobs. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].

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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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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One of the oldest security technologies – the venerable enterprise firewall – continues to thrive, as highlighted in recently-published: The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Firewall Solutions, Q4, 2024.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

It promises to let organizations autonomously segment their networks when threats are a problem, gain rapid exploit protection without having to patch or revamp firewalls, and automatically upgrade software without interrupting computing resources. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With the 9300 Smart Switches, we are bringing security technologies into a fabric, so customers can [have] protection baked into their architecture from the network interface card to the switch, Wollenweber said.We Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior.

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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.

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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. This model does not scale.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Each data center offers customers a range of SASE capabilities including cloud firewalls, secure web gateway (SWG), inline cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN , secure service edge (SSE), and threat protection.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2024

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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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2020

Both of these trends have contributed to the development by Gartner of a network architecture known as the secure-access service edge or SASE , which “converges network (for example, software-defined WAN) and network security services (such as [secure web gateways], [cloud access security brokers] and firewall as a service).”

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

That includes the ability to create firewall rules to block certain IPs or even entire domains. Single-pass architecture drives integration Aryakas unified approach centers on its single-pass architecture, processing network traffic through multiple security engines simultaneously.

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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. with several strategic improvements to the platform’s security architecture. Podman is Red Hat’s container platform that provides a competitive alternative to the Docker container technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. The Foundation of the Caf-Like Branch: Zero-Trust Architecture At the heart of the caf-like branch is a technological evolution thats been years in the makingzero-trust security architecture.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Resilience by design: A path forward Improving an organizations ability to rebound after an incident starts with moving to a modern zero trust architecture, which achieves several key outcomes. First and most importantly, it removes IT and cybersecurity complexitythe key impediment to enhancing cyber resilience.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2019

Also read: What to consider when deploying a next generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ]. However, many say air-gapping is no longer practical, as the cloud and internet take a hold of massive swaths of data and communications.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ive had employees who were network people but wanted to shift into, say, firewalls, for example. Cisco CCIE Data Center One of the most prestigious and challenging certifications in the industry, CCIE Data Center demonstrates expert-level skills in complex data center solutions. It gives them an idea of what that job entails, says Beveridge.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Zero trust architecture with Zscaler Zero trust is not another point product to add to the perimeter-oriented status quo , with its firewalls, VPNs, castle-and-moat security, and the weaknesses of that methodology. Let’s discuss zero trust, AI, and how Zscaler brings the two together to fantastic effect.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation? So, does implementing a SASE architecture based on a single vendor solve all of these challenges?

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Firewall Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation. Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) : Provides a cloud-based firewall that protects networks from threats and unauthorized access.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The shift to hybrid working requires more openings in firewalls, which in turn places a premium on frequent upgrades to firewall protections. Upgrades and patches often run behind schedule. Points of vulnerability are multiplying.

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