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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

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. billion by 2025.

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NEWS UPDATE: The impact of COVID-19 on public networks and security

Network World

Comparing the week of March 16 to the week of March 9, mean download speed over mobile and fixed broadband decreased in Canada and the U.S. Week over week (ending March 23) Ookla says it has started to see a degradation of mobile and fixed-broadband performance worldwide. More detail on specific locations is available below.

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

Network World

Download our editors’ PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide today! In response to these realities, Gartner coined a new term, secure service edge (SSE), which is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN , the network access part of the equation. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. IDC splits the difference between SASE and SSE.

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Rethinking the enterprise network backbone

CIO Business Intelligence

It provides high-capacity, low-latency, site-to-site, elastic connectivity between core data centers, edge locations, remote sites and any multi-cloud site with no equipment to manage or software to download. The service also enables enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN fabrics to the cloud.

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Network World’s Best of Enterprise Network 2024 award winners

Network World

Many of the categories and terms in this years Best of Networking (BENNY) technology awards didnt even exist a decade ago: secure access service edge (SASE), SD-WAN, networking as a service (NaaS), and network detection and response (NDR). Read on to meet the winners and finalists, or download the PDF edition below.

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Intel embraces SDN to modernize its chip factories

CIO Business Intelligence

That ability to upgrade the networking infrastructure without downtime applies to downloading security patches and integrating tools into the production environment alike, Colby adds. “Picture a tool being the size of a house.

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Make SASE your cybersecurity armor – but don’t go it alone

CIO Business Intelligence

In short, SASE brings together software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services such as cloud access security broker, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access. Increasingly, organizations are turning to secure access service edge (SASE) as their armor of choice against cyberattacks.

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