CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity threats, traditional pillars like firewalls and VPNs are struggling to keep pace with the evolving challenges. Once hailed as the foundation of security, firewalls and VPNs now find themselves outdated and inadequate.

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Network World

JUNE 29, 2023

The software that runs Cisco’s new Firewall 4200 Series now includes the ability to see into encrypted traffic without decrypting it, which the vendor says will allow enterprise customers to better protect hybrid and multicloud applications. version of the Secure Firewall operating system.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. What is a firewall? billion by 2020. billion by 2020.

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Network World

APRIL 26, 2023

Akamai's Prolexic network cloud firewall now offers the ability to customize access control lists and deploy them at network edges.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For its enterprise security offerings, NTT Data partners with Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft and others to provide services including firewalls, endpoint security, and cloud application protection. NTT Data offers a wide range of IT services, and its competitors include Accenture, Infosys, IBM and Tata.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs provides commercially supported services for NetBox including cloud and enterprise offerings. NetBox Discovery agents connect with a zero-trust architecture up to a control plane for orchestration that can be in the cloud, or self-hosted, enabling this architecture without needing to reconfigure firewalls or similar.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Palo Alto Networks has released next-generation firewall (NGFW) software that includes some 50 new features aimed at helping enterprise organizations battle zero-day threats and advanced malware attacks. The new features are built into the latest version of Palo Alto's firewall operating system – PAN 11.0

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Network World

AUGUST 15, 2023

As enterprise networks get more complex, so do the firewall deployments. There are on-premises firewalls to manage, along with firewalls that are deployed in virtual machines and firewalls deployed in containers. A firewall used to be a box or a chasse with multiple cards," says Omdia analyst Fernando Montenegro.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2018

You need a firewall. Recognizing that you need a firewall is the first – and most obvious -- step. The next crucial step in the decision-making process is determining which firewall features and policies best-suit your company’s needs. Then you have to implement and test the firewall once it's installed.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups. AI Defense will be available in March.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VMware has added more security features to its forthcoming on-demand multi-cloud networking and security service called Northstar that it previewed during its August VMware Explore 2022 conference. It will include VMware services such as Network Detection and Response, NSX Intelligence, advanced load balancing and Web Application Firewall.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Google Cloud is rolling out new network and security features, including a service that provides Layer-7 security. The new offerings announced at Google Cloud Next also include firewall and web application-protection options aimed at advancing existing cloud connectivity and ensuring the security of cloud-based resources. “We

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2024

Fortinet has reached an agreement to buy cloud security company Lacework for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2015, Lacework is known for its cloud-based machine learning, AI and automation technology that lets customers manage and secure cloud workflows.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company rolled out a new version of its core cloud-security package, Prisma Cloud 3.0, The package includes a cloud-access security broker (CASB) to control access to cloud resources. Managed through a single console, Prisma includes firewall as a service, Zero Trust network access and a secure web gateway.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 23, 2020

Not to be morbid, but the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a perilous time for the enterprise firewall vendors that rely heavily on selling big iron (and that’s most of them). The user exodus, coupled with the fact that most enterprise applications graduated to the cloud years ago, has […].

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 6, 2021

The network defense provider joins a growing list of companies offering cloud-based firewalls.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. A user can directly terminate into a cloud exchange point and have the same kind of visibility, governance and control in terms of what resources that user can access on the network.”

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2022

Cloud NGFW for AWS enables organizations to shift security responsibility to Palo Alto, allowing them to speed cloud innovation while remaining secure, the vendor says.

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Firewall Cloud Security 369

Network World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fortinet has added new features to its SD-WAN software and a next-generation firewall series that promise to help customers better monitor and protect distributed enterprise resources. The underlay network is typically made up if the physical network infrastructure supporting traffic between distributed cloud or remote office resources.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

First, it rolled out a number of new features for its Prisma cloud-based security package, and then it announced plans to buy cloud security vendor Bridgecrew for about $156 million in cash. Palo Alto had a busy week. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. What is SASE?

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Information Week

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The massive amount of sensitive data being processed by SaaS applications requires new approaches to security, including cloud-based next generation firewalls.

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Applications Cloud Security Firewall 414

Network World

MAY 3, 2023

Amazon Web Services has launched a service that secures user access to its cloud applications without requiring a VPN. Since AWS previewed the networking service, it has added two new features: AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) and the ability to pass signed identity context to customers’ application endpoints.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 29, 2022

The prevalence of remote workers and cloud apps has also eroded strict perimeters. A new generation of firewalls can address this challenge by providing application workload control and network control on premises, The post The Future of Firewalling: How a Platform Approach Can Lower Security Costs appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Encrypted Attacks Report examines this evolving threat landscape, based on a comprehensive analysis of billions of threats delivered over HTTPS and blocked by the Zscaler cloud. One notable trend explored in detail by ThreatLabz is the growing abuse of cloud services by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

By abstracting the underlay data plane from the management and control plane, SD-WAN enables organizations to send traffic directly from various locations to cloud-based resources without having to first route it through a centralized enterprise data center.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0, The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Network World

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Cloud services are spoiling the NGFW party.

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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. The permanence of remote employees will drive the need for a unified management console for on-premises, cloud, and remote security.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

F5 Networks has rolled out an integrated, cloud-based security platform and services aimed at protecting widely distributed enterprise applications. How to build a hybrid-cloud strategy. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 29, 2022

Network firewalls are a critical line of defense in securing enterprise networks and protecting their vital data. The rapid transition to cloud infrastructure makes managing networks quite complex and cumbersome, leaving security and information technology (IT) teams with the overwhelming task of determining proper restrictions and access.

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Network World

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its cloud security software with features that help customers quickly spot suspicious behaviors and trace security issues to their source to better protect enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. To read this article in full, please click here

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Sumo Logic, the pioneer in continuous intelligence, announced its Cloud SIEM solution now integrates with AWS Network Firewall, a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network […].

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 15, 2018

As of 2018, the market for contact center technology has fully shifted to cloud. The remaining outliers of demand are large, highly customized implementations which preserve legacy on premise software, or organizations that wish to maintain the technology inside their firewall.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

The cloud-based Prisma SASE 5G package melds network security functions including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ) with wide area network (WAN) capabilities such as SD-WAN.

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