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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Malware Analysis Trends Case Study 366

Network World

MARCH 11, 2025

Fortinets OT Security Platform includes firewalls, switches, network access control, security information and event management, analytics and AI management capabilities. This feature allows the firewall to automate and secure digital and physical processes on site, Shah wrote.

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Network Security Firewall Internet 222

Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior. It automates policy creation, optimization, and enforcement across workloads. SuperNICs are Nvidias new class of network accelerators designed to supercharge hyperscale AI workloads in Ethernet-based clouds.

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Security Storage Data Center Firewall 244

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. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. 

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Firewall Network WAN Security 246

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.

Network 222

Network Security WAN Firewall 222

Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies. See how AI can boost data-center availability and efficiency.

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Security Data Center Firewall Vmware 469

Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior. It automates policy creation, optimization, and enforcement across workloads.

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Data Center Network Security Data 274

Network World

JANUARY 30, 2018

Microsegmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. With microsegmentation, policies are applied to individual workloads for greater attack resistance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. This article explores some of the most common misconfiguration risks and how you can address them to tighten up cloud security.

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Cloud Security Firewall Storage 355

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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Firewall Enterprise Enterprise Data Center 226

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tip 2: Implementing Strong Password Policies Weak passwords can be easily compromised, giving attackers access to sensitive systems and data. INE Security recommends implementing strong password policies that require the use of complex passwords and regular updates.

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Training Security Small Business Backup 278

Network World

JULY 17, 2024

McGillicuddy recently shared findings from EMA’s July 2024 report, Network as a Service: Understanding the Cloud Consumption Model in Networking , and along with several other potential benefits, he said that NaaS can mitigate skills gaps for some enterprise organizations. Cloud networking (AWS. .): cited by 44.0% CapEx): cited by 37.6%

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Network WAN Firewall Engineering 477

Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As modern networking deployments across the cloud and edge become increasingly complex, it can be a non-trivial exercise for teams to get proper visibility. The release focuses on streamlining network operations across cloud, SD-WAN and traditional environments while strengthening security and compliance capabilities.

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Network WAN Firewall Load Balancer 244

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly shifted from buzz to business necessity over the past yearsomething Zscaler has seen firsthand while pioneering AI-powered solutions and tracking enterprise AI/ML activity in the worlds largest security cloud. Here are the notable findings: 1.

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Enterprise Enterprise Trends Artificial Intelligence 276

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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Security Architecture Network Resources 216

Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The vendor’s new Secure AI-Native Edge offering and cloud-based Security Assurance service are designed to deliver a cohesive view of network health, performance, and security metrics with a goal of resolving problems quickly and centrally enforcing enterprise security policies. version of Juniper Apstra.

Security 469

Security Load Balancer Data Center WAN 469

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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Firewall Data Center Security Data 195

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its become ultra-important for CISOs to monitor LLM interactions, track protected source code in cloud repositories (repos), and prevent unauthorized AI indexing of intellectual property and other private data. AI is no different from other applications or cloud environments already covered by existing defenses and processes.

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Data Artificial Intelligence Policies Security 264

Network World

AUGUST 29, 2023

The vendor added the new features to its FortiSASE offering, which includes SD-WAN, secure web gateway, firewall as a service, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) , all running on top of its FortiOS operating system. To read this article in full, please click here

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Wireless LAN Security WAN 370

Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

HPE Aruba Networking Central is the company’s flagship cloud-based network management platform that controls, secures and monitors wired and wireless networks and data center environments. And the next step is to assign an access control policy to those devices, he said.

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Network Policies LAN Data Center 436

Network World

JULY 8, 2024

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

WAN 369

WAN Firewall Network Security 369

Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Data Center Data centers are physical facilities that enterprises use to house business-critical applications and information and which are evolving from centralized, on-premises facilities to edge deployments and public-cloud services. Ansible , Puppet , Chef), and cloud-based management tools.

Network 436

Network WAN Data Center Wireless 436

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leaders also expect to face adversity in the near future with 60% anticipating a significant cybersecurity failure within the next six months, which reflects the sheer volume of cyber attacks as well as a growing recognition that cloud services are not immune to disruptions and outages.

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Disaster Recovery Budget Security Strategy 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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Strategy Cloud Security Authentication 312

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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Cloud Architecture Security Analysis 370

Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Enhanced networking infrastructure brings more IPv6 access As an operating system platform that is used as the basis for enterprise, cloud and even telecom scale deployments, RHEL’s networking stack is of particular importance to users.

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Linux Network Enterprise Enterprise 274

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Not long ago, security concerns were the number one reason IT executives hesitated to move workloads to the cloud. Security is now considered one of the great strengths of both cloud infrastructure and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. All cloud services operate under a shared responsibility model.

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Security Cloud Data Firewall 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

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Cloud Open Source Applications Storage 363

Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. Here are snapshots of some of the major providers in SSE: Akamai: Akamai has the global cloud platform required to deliver SSE, and a strong track record.

Security 419

Security WAN Vmware Network 419

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. One reason is that public cloud has proven to be 40x more cost-effective. 1 Moreover, the public cloud is easy to use and is extremely scalable.

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Cloud Policies Architecture Security 246

Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Businesses can extend secure connected experiences everywhere using Cisco Talos-powered cybersecurity capabilities—firewall policies, content filtering, intrusion detection and prevention (IDS and IPS), advanced malware protection (AMP), and more—using both wired WAN and FWA.”

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WAN Wireless Load Balancer Firewall 436

CTOvision

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

By Bob Gourley Data Science Powered CloudSOC™ Solution Enables Security for Cloud Applications and Services by Providing Transaction Visibility, Threat Detection, Controls and Forensics Analysis. CloudSOC™ empowers enterprise IT to enable employees to take full advantage of the cloud era, while staying safe, secure and compliant.

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Applications .Net Cloud Analysis 273

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. That interest is only getting stronger as cloud usage grows – making it a perfect topic for the latest #CIOTechTalk Twitter chat. It’s a timely topic given the rapid cloud migration currently underway.

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Cloud Security How To Network 299

Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. The latest updates come on the heels of a busy summer for Fortinet, highlighted by the company’s acquisition of cloud security vendor Lacework. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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WAN Security Network Hardware 420

Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Many of our customers may know us as a networking security company delivering firewalls. We think this is an entirely new category of switch which is going to enable a set of applications, the first of which is Cisco Hypershield, which lets every single switch in the network becomes a policy enforcement point.

Security 195

Security Data Center Network Open Source 195

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Moreover, Koch itself is in the middle of a digital transformation that adds cloud networking to the mix, further complicating the challenge. Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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CTO Network Cloud Data Center 243

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This has meant updating cloud, networking, and security infrastructure to adapt to the new realities of hybrid work and a world where employees will need to connect to and access business applications from anywhere and from any device, in a secure manner.

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WAN Security Licensing Firewall 246