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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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Spy vs spy: Security agencies help secure the network edge

Network World

Out-of-the-box, products should be secure with additional security features such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), logging, and single sign-on (SSO) available at no extra cost. A big deal if device manufacturers comply The guidance for manufacturers particularly excites Frank Dickson, IDCs group vice president for security and trust.

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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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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

Market research firm DellOro group forecasts that the SASE market will triple by 2026 , topping $13 billion. firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. Download our editors PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyers guide today!

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Starting zero trust without spending a dime

Network World

NIST, other government agencies, and industry bodies point towards the policy enforcement point (PEP) as the gateway device or service that performs this separation, gating access based on different authentication and authorization requirements, depending on the sensitivity of the resource.

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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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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

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. There are two main aspects of the AI opportunity in networking this acquisition supports.

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