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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

What today is known as secure service edge (SSE) started under a different name — secure access service edge (SASE) — with a slightly different meaning. 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.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

A member of your organization’s security team reads about a new kind of security tool and brings it to the CISO’s attention, who decides that it’s a good investment. The CISO sees a new kind of security threat that requires a different security tool. A colleague recommends a security tool she says is indispensable.

Tools 312
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Voice Is Transforming Unified Communications

IT Toolbox

After years of being taken for granted, the humble medium of voice is unlocking a higher level of productivity through unified communications.

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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World

Cloud Musings

Cloud/Client Computing - The convergence of cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications that can be delivered to any device. Software-defined networking, storage, data centers and security are maturing.

Big Data 174
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IDG Contributor Network: Implementing secure WANs in the cloud age

Network World

Over the past few years most organizations have significantly increased their reliance on the Internet, primarily due to the outsourcing of utility applications like email, unified communications, ERP, CRM, etc. The only way to mitigate these is by creating extensive security policies at each location. to SaaS providers.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO Business Intelligence

They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year. This adds additional context to our security layer and allows us to grant access to just what our users need — and no more — when they need it,’’ Vaithylingam says.

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