Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kyndryl has expanded its alliance with Palo Alto Networks to add secure access service edge ( SASE ) services to its managed services offerings. A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle.

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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

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

MAY 16, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. At the core of the platform is the firm’s cloud-based, natural-language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

To meet digital transformation initiatives, businesses across the economy are seeking ways to automate network operations. According to a report from Mordor Intelligence , the network automation market should top $25 billion by the end of 2024, expanding to more than $71 billion in 2030. Aliro Quantum Year founded: 2019 Funding: $10.3

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI Think of the AI evolution as like the cloud transition “on steroids,” Robbins said.

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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. CloudVision’s network information can be utilized by Arista networking partners including VMware, Microsoft and IBM’s Red Hat.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. Look for leaders you can connect with and invest in these relationships so you can build a mentor network.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

F5 Networks has rolled out an integrated, cloud-based security platform and services aimed at protecting widely distributed enterprise applications. How to build a hybrid-cloud strategy. To read this article in full, please click 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. Of course it would. Not at all.”

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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. Better manage network configurations.

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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 30, 2024

If you’re an enterprise, your network and IT spending are likely under pressure…except for security. They want a centralized framework into which network, data, application, and user/endpoint security are all integrated. In some cases, a tool (like a firewall ) may not generate any notification, but simply log an action it’s taken.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

cPacket Networks this week launched a new appliance designed to capture network traffic and enable network operations teams to achieve better efficiency by monitoring network reliability in real time while also looking backward to investigate prior incidents.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. 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.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Changing infrastructure is generally the first draw for any enterprise zero trust initiative, separating resources on the network that traditionally had carte blanche access to anything it could ping. Don’t give the attackers a leg up by making privileged accounts easy to steal after they have breached your network.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco to cut 7% of workforce, restructure product groups Aug. Cisco wants to use this restructuring to pump more resources into three growth areas: AI networking, security and collaboration.

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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 With SD-WAN, branch offices become part of an enterprise’s larger network topology, with their own Internet egress. billion in 2024.

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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.

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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. That way a corporate machine with a private IP address can send and receive packets from machines located outside the private network that have public IP addresses. its at about 49%.

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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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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the last eighteen months or so, a motley group of teenagers under the banner of Lapsus$ managed to hack into “unbreachable” fortresses at tech giants such as Okta, T-Mobile, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Globant using unsophisticated but creative and persistent techniques. Every out-of-place event needs to be investigated.

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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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

While it is possible to patch and password-protect these systems, Ellis warns that a failure in any of these controls could leave essential services exposed to exploitation by nation-state actors or other malicious groups. At a minimum, these systems should be firewalled off from public addressing, Ellis stresses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less. Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Even as its cloud journey reaches cruising altitude, Cathay Pacific Group IT is not slowing down. Securing the network One major aspect of Cathay’s cloud optimization plan is embracing Aryaka’s unified secure access service edge (SASE) converged networking, security, and observability platform across its global network, Nair says.

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