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No company has the luxury of containing the enterprise IT environment within its four walls anymore. A VPN lets employees “tunnel” in through the corporate firewall using an encrypted connection that rides on top of the public internet. Today we are adapting to a vast, permanent work-from-anywhere cultural shift.”.
As a SASE product professional at one of the most prominent cybersecurity technology companies in the world, you can bet the fact that SASE was in the Trough of Disillusionment caught my attention. 4 There are networking vendors and cybersecurity companies, but very few specialize in both, a necessity for SASE.
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said the deal, the largest in Ciscos history, will enable the company to revolutionize the way our customers leverage data to connect and protect every aspect of their organization as we help power and protect the AI revolution. We are becoming a networking company at the core.
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