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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. Phishing (69%) and zero-day exploits (48%) were also among the top concerns.

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Threats delivered over encrypted channels continue to rise

Network World

One notable trend explored in detail by ThreatLabz is the growing abuse of cloud services by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. By blending in with legitimate cloud services traffic, APT groups can take advantage of the default use of TLS/SSL encryption enabled to help them evade network security controls. Read their story here.

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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

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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Spy vs spy: Security agencies help secure the network edge

Network World

Device manufacturers should also use it to establish a baseline of standard features to include in the architecture of network devices and appliances, to facilitate forensic analysis for network defenders. That may be true for firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways, but not for OT systems, she continued.

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Kyndryl expands Palo Alto deal to offer managed SASE service

Network World

A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle. The worldwide SASE market is projected to hit $17 billion by 2029 with a 12% compound annual growth rate, according to a recent DellOro Group report. The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Zero Trust security, why it’s essential In today’s threat landscape

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

Network World

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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