CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The key zero trust principle of least-privileged access says a user should be given access only to a specific IT resource the user is authorized to access, at the moment that user needs it, and nothing more. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures. There are two reasons for this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These savings were found through decommissioning legacy data centers, physical equipment, and hardware, including sunsetting legacy DLP tools, SWG technology, firewalls, and related hardware and circuitry. Increased network and security operation effectiveness was responsible for $1.5M in cost savings.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Palo Alto Networks has acknowledged that some of its next-generation firewalls running the PAN-OS operating system are suddenly rebooting. We had 3 of our 8 firewalls unexpectedly reboot in the past few months, wrote one person. Another Reddit poster said the issue only happens if the firewall is set to do SSL interception.

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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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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 431

Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Enterprises can choose an appliance from a single vendor or install hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software on white-box servers. Industry 4.0

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Fortinet also boosted visibility into OT assets from its FortiSOAR security orchestration, automation, and response platform to help customers more efficiently manage OT resources. By creating decoyed resources that attract attackers, customers can identify and analyze their behavior without compromising real systems.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

With Sovereign SASE, customers or partners (including managed security service providers) host the hardware based on Fortinet’s predefined hardware bundles, which vary by scale requirements such as number of users and bandwidth. The difference with Sovereign SASE is how SASE is deployed, Shah said.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2015

Cognitio has been evaluating the new Verisign DNS Firewall along with its Recursive DNS service for the last several weeks. Verisign has leveraged its industry leading DNS capabilities and unmatched technical ability in the DNS arena to develop the Verisign DNS Firewall offering.

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Firewall .Net Malware Security 150

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Virtual router: Software applications that perform the same functions as a hardware router – this is typically used in software-defined networking (SDN) What are some other functions of routers? This reduces network congestion and ensures critical applications receive the necessary resources.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And theyre very resource-intensiveAI is poised to grow power demand. Ive had employees who were network people but wanted to shift into, say, firewalls, for example. Why pursue certifications? Certifications can help individuals in their careers and help organizations find talented staff.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

However, adopting quantum-resistant encryption requires significant resources, updates to infrastructure, and collaboration with partners, which needs to be well-planned. For example, Palo Alto Networks has integrated PQC into its VPNs and next-generation firewalls to protect data in transit against quantum threats.

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Data How To Firewall Security 119

Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware. Because if you’re thinking about protecting lateral movement, you have to contain the lateral movement by segmenting the attacker from making too many hops,” Patel said. “It

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

A recent report from Enterprise Management Associates found that only about a quarter (27%) of networking teams believe that they have the tools and resources to successfully manage day-to-day operations of complex network infrastructure. That number is down significantly from roughly 50% just five years prior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. And because a SD-WAN is centrally managed, all provisioning and changes to the network and applications are done from one location—reducing the time and resources necessary to manage the network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware. Retraining, refining, and optimizing create efficiency so you can run on less expensive hardware.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

You have all the information you need to secure your compound, but do you have the resources to monitor and analyze the information in real time? A typical enterprise can collect logs and events from firewalls, routers, servers, PCs, and more. You can also include physical security data – video, badge machines, motion detectors, etc.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Through the integration with Azure, Cisco’s AppDynamics platform can manage the performance of applications, virtual machines and other resources hosted on Microsoft’s cloud platform. 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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This move beyond the traditional firewall setup created security issues and device management issues for many IT departments. Apple builds security into the hardware platform at the start, and provides hardware, encryption, application, and services security across the ecosystem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

You need to take control to ensure you’re optimizing your resources and delivering on the value propositions the organization envisioned when it embarked on the cloud journey in the first place. Do you have the resources and skills to do it all? Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

The pandemic also exposed the limitations of virtual private networks, which enable remote access to secure computing resources. A VPN lets employees “tunnel” in through the corporate firewall using an encrypted connection that rides on top of the public internet.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Further complicating matters, the shift from company owned and operated to personal and public compute resources-- which increases the attack surface. Before connectivity is provisioned, the hardware identity and software hashes from the user’s device are checked. Conceptually the new security stack is a hardware-based virtual enclave.

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Security Data Center Hardware Virtualization 150

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. Systems architect A systems architect is responsible for designing and overseeing the implementation of IT infrastructure such as hardware, software, and networks.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to the International Association for IT Asset Management ( IAITAM ), ITAM is Software Asset Management (SAM), Hardware Asset Management (HAM), and Asset Portfolio Management (APM). Special software (usually with agents) discovers the hardware and the software that is installed on it. IT hardware is no simple matter either.

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CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2014

The process of Managing Assets includes tracking all hardware and software products (PCs, servers, network devices, storage, applications, mobile devices, etc.) in your enterprise, and checking for secure configuration and for known/existing vulnerabilities. This will become more complex as we add more capabilities and more products.

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Disaster Recovery Security Enterprise Enterprise 264

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage. The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules. Cloud Management. Security policies.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The setup begins with deploying the necessary hardware and software. This includes firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and monitoring tools. Much of the event's content leverages online resources, so Internet connectivity and other online services must always be up and running."

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The transition to post-quantum cryptography may seem daunting, but with the right resources, strategic planning, and trusted partnerships, enterprises can ensure the protection of sensitive data against future quantum cyberattacks, says Heather West, Ph.D., research manager, quantum computing research lead, IDC.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 11, 2016

Simplifies infrastructure, enabling IT to avoiding having to create new silos, which often consist of new technologies and firewalls. In this cloud model, your computing resources are standardized. Today’s enterprise infrastructure is a complex web of hardware, programs, applications, and flash storage.

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Cloud Open Source Firewall Applications 150

Dataconomy

APRIL 2, 2025

To build such successful IoT-based solutions, it is essential to understand the core components like hardware integration and cloud infrastructure under interfaces. Hardware forms the foundation: sensors, actuators, and embedded devices that collect and transmit data.

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Applications Hardware Architecture Analysis 41

Scott Lowe

JUNE 4, 2013

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. Next, Jason dives a bit deeper on the relationship between network overlays and hardware , and shares his thoughts on where it does—and doesn’t—make sense to have hardware terminating overlay tunnels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This move beyond the traditional firewall setup created security issues and device management issues for many IT departments. Apple builds security into the hardware platform at the start, and provides hardware, encryption, application, and services security across the ecosystem.

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Apple Enterprise Enterprise Hardware 130

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Are you tired of managing a sprawling IT infrastructure that consumes valuable resources and takes up too much space? By allowing multiple virtual servers to run on a single physical server, server virtualization enables businesses to maximize resource utilization, improve scalability, and simplify management.

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Virtualization Storage Disaster Recovery Hardware 78

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

As a provider, Expedient has to balance five core resources: compute, storage (capacity), storage (performance), network I/O, and memory. Expedient found that migrating to 10 GbE actually “unlocked” additional performance headroom in the other resources, which wasn’t expected.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 21, 2025

This includes securing hardware, software, and sensitive data from unauthorized access and manipulation. Network security Network security protects the integrity of networks through the implementation of firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, preventing unauthorized access. What is cybersecurity?

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Disaster Recovery Firewall Security Malware 41

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The challenges and mistakes organizations make when tackling this important task include: Operational disconnects caused by ineffective internal communications; Resource contention when multiple, independently developed project plans compete; Incompatible technical documentation; and Inconsistent communications with vendors.

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IBM Vendor Management Banking Trends 87

Spearline Testing

AUGUST 24, 2022

Quality of users’ hardware. Users’ firewalls configuration and intentional or unintentional throttling of bandwidth. Codecs have a huge impact on media quality, and can become a massive drain on your time and resources if you fall down the rabbithole. 264 has more hardware acceleration. Users’ internet quality.

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Media Transportation Quality Assurance Internet 146