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What is a network router? How AI networking driving its evolution

Network World

At its most basic level, the definition of a router is a device that connects networks to each other, forwarding data packets from one location to another until they reach their destination. These packets contain the destination address – for example, an IP address if the data is going across the internet.

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

Network World

It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. IDC splits the difference between SASE and SSE.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

Security issues: Tools often communicate and work together, sharing data, credentials, and secrets. In addition, data silos created by different tools can lead to less efficient processes and can slow incident response times. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.),

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The Power of One

CIO Business Intelligence

The risks can be mitigated however, with a managed firewall, endpoint security, good policies, and user training. Speaking of the cloud, expect to move most if not all your data and applications there too – if they aren’t already. Every year in Australia there are more than 50,000 instances of reported cybercrime. business ICT.

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Hyper-segmentation – How to Avoid Cyber Disasters

CTOvision

Traffic is segmented based on the nature of the data, type of traffic, source and destination, and other features. Following that article, many readers asked how data center segmentation was going to deal with the threat of exponentially increasing end-points. There are no ACLs to setup, no firewall rules to configure.

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