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Alkira expands NaaS platform with ZTNA capabilities

Network World

The platform provides visibility, control and governance over the network as well as dynamic service insertion, allowing organizations to integrate third-party services like firewalls into their network. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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Palo Alto expands secure private 5G network partnerships

Network World

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.

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Fortinet expands security lineup with sovereign SASE

Network World

Fortinet is also jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with enhancements to its FortiAI technology, which is getting updated to help manage and orchestrate SD-WAN infrastructure. The latest integration as part of Unified SASE is with Fortinet Secure SD-WAN. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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How to choose a flexible unified SASE solution

Network World

When deployed properly, SASE, which combines SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security via SSE, enables all users and devices, regardless of location, to securely access an organization’s hybrid network. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

Network World

It promises to let organizations autonomously segment their networks when threats are a problem, gain rapid exploit protection without having to patch or revamp firewalls, and automatically upgrade software without interrupting computing resources. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Firewall Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation. IP Internet protocol (IP) is the set of rules governing the format of data sent over IP networks.

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Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves

Network World

In addition to these two core SSE services, Microsoft Entra Suite includes identity governance and administration, identity protection, and identity verification. Two other components – Microsoft Entra ID Protection and ID Governance – have been available previously in Microsoft Entra ID P2 SKU and Microsoft Entra ID Governance SKU.

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