Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This approach eliminates the need for traditional, resource-intensive physical appliances, allowing organizations to handle encrypted traffic growth easily and without disruption. Maintain high performance: Zscalers architecture eliminates bottlenecks typically associated with hardware appliances. Read their story here.

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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.]. [Get

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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

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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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? in cost savings.

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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.

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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. It’s implemented in a new version of the vendor’s core Junos operating system (version 23.4)

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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

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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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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Network Security Architecture Enterprise 445

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

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Data center sustainability Data center sustainability is the practice of designing, building and operating data centers in a way that minimizes their environmental by reducing energy consumption, water usage and waste generation, while also promoting sustainable practices such as renewable energy and efficient resource management. Industry 4.0

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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

MARCH 17, 2025

Chhabra points out that the VMware bundle called Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) includes products in 12 different categories, including vSphere for compute, vSAN storage, NSX networking, plus management, automation, a Kubernetes service, virtual firewall, log management, cloud cost management, etc.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And theyre very resource-intensiveAI is poised to grow power demand. Ive had employees who were network people but wanted to shift into, say, firewalls, for example. Why pursue certifications? Certifications can help individuals in their careers and help organizations find talented staff.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Zero-trust enforcement: It is crucial to have zero-trust enforcement in a SASE solution because it authorizes and verifies every user and device trying to access resources. 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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Network World

AUGUST 12, 2024

The rationale for transitioning from a legacy architecture to Zscaler zero trust When I joined Sanmina in 1999 as a technical support person, security measures were sorely lacking. We realized we simply couldn’t implement a zero trust architecture using traditional VPN technology. This was an untenable solution.

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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. As a result, nine out of 10 respondents agreed strongly that their organizations prefer paying for outcomes and buying from a catalog, with the ability to scale resources as necessary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

CIOs are challenged with securing an ever-more cloud-reliant, distributed, data-driven, and bandwidth-consuming enterprise with largely the same resources at their disposal. Next-gen security architecture. Firewall-as-a-service : Many legacy firewalls are ineffective against modern threats on a distributed network.

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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. In the coming months (and years!),

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Trends Firewall WAN Network 246

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The public cloud imperative For many organizations, regardless of size or industry, the public cloud has become an essential resource for critical operations. Many organizations rely on legacy security architectures to secure their cloud workloads. One reason is that public cloud has proven to be 40x more cost-effective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. In many cases, organizations adopt legacy network security solutions and architectures to secure these cloud workloads that often fail to provide complete security coverage. In fact, a few of the most common challenges include: Risk. Operational costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To achieve this, businesses are turning to a zero-trust architecture, specifically the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. This is the second installment in our two-part blog series highlighting the ways in which Zscaler helps organizations overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures to deliver superior economic value.

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Firewall Architecture Network Security 246

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. Today, cloud providers may offer better cybersecurity protections than many companies can provide on-premises. But you need to know what to look for in a cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

You have all the information you need to secure your compound, but do you have the resources to monitor and analyze the information in real time? A typical enterprise can collect logs and events from firewalls, routers, servers, PCs, and more. You can also include physical security data – video, badge machines, motion detectors, etc.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At a minimum, these systems should be firewalled off from public addressing, Ellis stresses. Municipal utilities and water treatment plants, constrained by limited budgets and resource shortages, often took shortcuts to enable remote access. Why Are HMIs Being Exposed?

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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 addition, the following best practices can help fortify defenses against future ransomware attacks: • Adopt a zero-trust architecture to break the attack chain.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Defense Daily’s 2014 Open Architecture Summit, … Read more on Defense Daily Network (subscription). Read more on ADT Magazine.

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CTOvision

JUNE 12, 2014

We’re not done yet, though – badges for physical access, PKI, USB keys, SmartCards, soft certs, biometrics, Network Access Control, firewalls, IPS/IDS, SIEM … I could go on and on. Over time, our use of devices and network resources will form a pattern; no two people should have the same behavioral patterns.

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Security Storage Network Mobile 249

Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

And in the security arena, Cisco is building out its platform-based approach to enterprise security with elements such as its new Hypershield AI-native architecture. Cisco wants to use this restructuring to pump more resources into three growth areas: AI networking, security and collaboration. Here’s the latest Cisco news and analysis.

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Network Security Data Center Applications 354

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For as long as organizations have been interested in moving resources to the cloud, they’ve been concerned about security. The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). It’s called a disaster.

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KineticData

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding the Landscape In multi-tenant architectures, resources such as computing power, databases, and network resources are shared among various users or clients, referred to here as tenants. This design principle ensures that services can dynamically adapt, scaling resources up or down based on real-time needs.

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Resources Architecture Security Network 59

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. The company invested a hefty amount of time — roughly 18 months — and engineering resources just to bring on-premises networking to the cloud. “It

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CTO Network Cloud Data Center 243

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. A VPN lets employees “tunnel” in through the corporate firewall using an encrypted connection that rides on top of the public internet.

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Security WAN Policies Applications 246

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The dangers of misusing benchmarks In a similar conversation, we discussed the allocation of resources between maintaining day-to-day IT operations and fostering innovation. Your 3% spend on security might mean you can afford only basic firewall protection, patching systems, and outdated monitoring tools.

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