Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

A big deal if device manufacturers comply The guidance for manufacturers particularly excites Frank Dickson, IDCs group vice president for security and trust. That may be true for firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways, but not for OT systems, she continued. This is a super big deal, he said.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

The new capability provides automated backup and one-click recovery for network configurations, DNS settings, CDN configurations, firewalls, security groups and other infrastructure components that are essential for application delivery but frequently overlooked in traditional disaster recoveryplanning.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle. The worldwide SASE market is projected to hit $17 billion by 2029 with a 12% compound annual growth rate, according to a recent DellOro Group report. The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One notable trend explored in detail by ThreatLabz is the growing abuse of cloud services by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. By blending in with legitimate cloud services traffic, APT groups can take advantage of the default use of TLS/SSL encryption enabled to help them evade network security controls.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

With growing concerns over advanced threats, VPN security issues, network complexity, and adversarial AI, enterprises are showing increased interest in a zero trust approach to security and moving away from firewall-and-VPN based architecture. Phishing (69%) and zero-day exploits (48%) were also among the top concerns.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

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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CTOvision

OCTOBER 15, 2015

New research with the Aberdeen Group highlights how network complexity is adding cost and increasing risk. Register >> Network firewalls have long been established as the ubiquitous first line of defense for every organization’s network security strategy. Find out more information on Aberdeen Group here. The result?

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Network World

JULY 25, 2023

A group of industry stalwarts is banding together to help enterprises, services providers and telcos fight cyber foes. The Network Resilience Coalition includes AT&T, Broadcom, BT Group, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, Intel, Juniper Networks, Lumen Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Verizon and VMware.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

How to build a hybrid-cloud strategy. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

A security group discovered a vulnerability in three models of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. Also see: What to consider when deploying a next-generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ].

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Network World

JULY 26, 2017

The security group, though, could not accept the fact that SD-WANs met the requirements stipulated by CFATS (Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards) guiding the chemical industry. CFATS professionals assume MPLS and firewalls to be mandated by the standard. It’s inconceivable to many that an SD-WAN could replace MPLS.

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Network World

AUGUST 25, 2016

Cisco Systems has started releasing security patches for a critical flaw in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls targeted by an exploit linked to the U.S. The exploit, dubbed ExtraBacon, is one of the tools used by a group that the security industry calls the Equation, believed to be a cyberespionage team tied to the NSA.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

Asset-centric tools focus on what’s to be protected, including things like application access control, virus scans, and firewalls. In some cases, a tool (like a firewall ) may not generate any notification, but simply log an action it’s taken. How well do the platforms offered meet user goals?

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Chhabra points out that the VMware bundle called Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) includes products in 12 different categories, including vSphere for compute, vSAN storage, NSX networking, plus management, automation, a Kubernetes service, virtual firewall, log management, cloud cost management, etc.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Configure workstation firewall policies such that only Client-to-Server communications are permitted. Windows firewall is set to the Public profile at all times, blocking inbound connections, even from other corporate workstations and servers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Companies in the telecommunications, insurance, pharma and life sciences industries can add over 1,000 new services every month, while those in financial services, healthcare and manufacturing industries often add over 200 new services monthly, says the security research group, which is part of Palo Alto Networks.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware. Since November of 2023, the normal number one customer were attracting right now is guys that have had a heart attack when they got their VMware renewal license, Crump said.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Market research firm DellOro group forecasts that the SASE market will triple by 2026 , topping $13 billion. firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. A flexible, cloud-based firewall delivered as a service can protect these edges.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

High-performance environments require packet capture technology that can keep up, notes Sameh Boujelbene, vice president of ethernet switch data center market research at Dell’Oro Group. “We Scalability to adapt to growing enterprise needs, particularly as organizations transition to 100G and 400G networks.

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Network World

AUGUST 23, 2024

Despite the high-profile takedowns of criminal ransomware networks in “Operation Endgame” and “Operation Duck Hunt,” the most notorious ransomware groups remain tenacious, quickly regrouping after disruptions and aggressively launching new attacks. This was evidenced by the record-breaking $75 million ransom payment uncovered by ThreatLabz.

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Mick's IT Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

This was caused by me adding the rule to the group Configuration Manager. If -Group is removed from the cmdlet, this message disappears. If you open up a rule after the script is executed, you will see it says This is a predefined rule and some of its properties cannot be modified. You can download the script from here.

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Network World

JUNE 19, 2024

An inquiry into HPE’s $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a move that potentially could delay approval of the deal, will have little impact on data center managers, an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.” James Lloyd-Townshend, chairman and CEO at tech talent agency Tenth Revolution Group, agrees network automation has limited the need for staff focused on configuration and monitoring.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A federal indictment has charged Chinese national Guan Tianfeng with exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Sophos firewalls, affecting approximately 81,000 devices worldwide in 2020. Chinese national indicted for exploiting Sophos firewall vulnerabilities The vulnerability, classified as CVE-2020-12271 and rated with a high CVSS score of 9.8,

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

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). Dell’Oro Group listed 35 SASE vendors in its September 2022 report. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

FireMon has made their way into Australian and New Zealand markets by extending its global partnership with Westcon Group. We don’t make the firewall, we don’t make the F5 load balancer, we don’t make the Cisco router, but we make them better,” DeBell said. Find out more information on Westcon Group here. Katie Kennedy.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says. There are two main aspects of the AI opportunity in networking this acquisition supports.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Cyber has been called the ultimate team sport: CIOs, CTOs, SysAdmins, Software Developers, CISOs, threat teams, red teams, testing groups, etc. Jobs like keeping software updated, tracking down holes in the firewalls, waiting for alarms to go off, being fed alerts about out-of-date software: in short lots of controlled firefighting.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco to cut 7% of workforce, restructure product groups Aug. 14, 2024 : Cisco is cutting 6,000 jobs in its second round of layoffs this year and combining its networking, security and collaboration groups into one unit led by Jeetu Patel. Cisco launches Motific hub to streamline generative AI deployment Feb.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Not all that long ago, it was common for enterprises to rely on signature-based detection for malware, static firewall rules for network traffic and access control lists (ACLs) to define security policies. Every day, organizations see large volumes of data packets traverse firewalls. Even if only 0.1% Challenge 3: ML security.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 24, 2017

Companies like my colleague’s are the backbone of the enormously large group of businesses From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

One joke said about the secretive group, widely regarded as the most skilled state-sponsored hackers in the world, is NSA actually stands for “No Such Agency.” But now a recent leak has put the group right where it loathes to be—squarely in the headlines. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Network World

JANUARY 12, 2017

The hacking group that stole cyberweapons suspected to be from the U.S. The Shadow Brokers made news back in August when they dumped hacking tools for routers and firewall products that they claimed came from the Equation Group, a top cyberespionage team that some suspect works for the NSA.

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Network World

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of the IPv4 address method of four sets of one- to three-digit numbers, IPv6 uses eight groups of four hexadecimal digits, separated by colons. With NAT, thousands of privately addressed computers can be presented to the public internet by a NAT machine such as a firewall or router. What are the benefits of IPv6?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 The basic firewall functionality may not be enough to help protect enterprise networks. billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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