Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Often, businesses end up with inconsistent management practices and resource inefficiencies that hinder security and performance. Add evolving threats like AI-powered bot attacks and zero-day exploits, and the stakes couldn’t be higher,” Hwang wrote in a blog about the new service.

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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. What is SASE?

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Google Cloud is rolling out new network and security features, including a service that provides Layer-7 security. The new offerings announced at Google Cloud Next also include firewall and web application-protection options aimed at advancing existing cloud connectivity and ensuring the security of cloud-based resources. “We

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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

Ciscos AI Defense works with Ciscos AI-based Hypershield portfolio and is integrated into the vendors Security Cloud package.Hypershieldis comprised of AI-based software, virtual machines, and other technology that will ultimately be baked into core networking components, such as switches, routers, or servers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fortinet has added new features to its SD-WAN software and a next-generation firewall series that promise to help customers better monitor and protect distributed enterprise resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

Fortinet has bolstered its operational technology protection platform with a variety of new features, including improved device identification and patching capabilities, and it introduced new ruggedized switches targeted at high-bandwidth networks. Improved analytics, and network behavior analysis are also part of the platform enhancements.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

At its most basic level, the definition of a router is a device that connects networks to each other, forwarding data packets from one location to another until they reach their destination. Digital content is delivered across the enterprise network and the global internet in the form of packets. What is a network router?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

HPE’s Aruba Networks continues to build out its enterprise security portfolio, adding support for behavioral analytics to its threat detection and response platform and moving zero-trust controls to its campus products.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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. This approach stops encrypted threats from reaching critical applications and systems, providing proactive protection that doesnt rely on shared network access.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Palo Alto Networks has bolstered its security software to better protect enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The package includes a cloud-access security broker (CASB) to control access to cloud resources. The package includes a cloud-access security broker (CASB) to control access to cloud resources.

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Network World

JULY 18, 2023

Fortinet has released two new high-speed, next generation firewalls designed to protect data center assets.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

The networks that enable today’s hyper-distributed enterprises face persistent and emerging security challenges. We need to take security, melting [it] into the fabric of the network, so that we have distributed enforcement points. One of those challenges is ransomware. What do we need to do in order to contain lateral movement?

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. SuperNICs are Nvidias new class of network accelerators designed to supercharge hyperscale AI workloads in Ethernet-based clouds. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs.

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Network World

APRIL 24, 2023

Cisco is taking its first major step into Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with a SaaS-delivered integrated system of endpoint, network, firewall, email and identity software aimed at protecting enterprise resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. There was an issue on certain older versions of PAN-OS where the system could crash when handling very specific traffic conditions, the company told Network World.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

FortiAnalyzer securely collects logs from Fortinet devices such as FortiGate firewalls and endpoint security agents.It uses AI to look for trends, anomalies and potential security threats to then build security analyses, network traffic reports and incident response playbooks.

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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.

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

It's a network jungle these days with predators relentlessly searching for ways to infiltrate corporate resources. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. Here are their stories.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Palo Alto's Prisma is a cloud-based security package that includes access control, advanced threat protection, user behavior monitoring and other services that promise to protect enterprise applications and resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Zero Trust is an architecture that verifies every user and device that tries to access the network and enforces strict access control and identity management that limits authorized users to accessing only those resources they need to do their jobs. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI is a transformative technology that requires a lot of power, dense computing, and fast networks, says Robert Beveridge, professor and technical manager at Carnegie Mellon Universitys AI Engineering Center. And theyre very resource-intensiveAI is poised to grow power demand. Why pursue certifications?

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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. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

HPE Aruba is expanding the capabilities of Networking Central, its cloud-based management platform for administering and managing all aspects of an Aruba wired and wireless customer infrastructure. Basically, we are removing any blind spots that customers had when it comes to managing and troubleshooting heterogeneous networks,” Ni said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The ROI of modern security and networking In separate research late last year, Forrester Consulting concluded that the benefits of cloud-based, edge services are significant for infrastructure and operations (I&O), networking, and security. Consolidated network security infrastructure generated $5.4M in cost savings.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Jokel talked with Network World about three key technological trends Ciscos is actively pursuing: the rise of agentic AI, preparing for the quantum era in networking and security, and addressing the growing demand for sustainable and efficient infrastructure. We also need to look at how we network together quantum computers.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The package supports a variety of security technologies, including a web application firewall, application programming interface protection, DDOS mitigation, and SSL/TLS traffic encryption. In addition to the software, F5 has expanded its Velos hardware family by adding a CX1610 chassis and BX520 blade.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

The average organization adds or updates some 300 services every month, creating a significant challenge for security teams charged with protecting enterprise cloud-based resources, notes Unit 42. Perhaps not surprisingly, Internet-facing resources are targeted most often by attackers, according to Unit 42.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The negative impact of legacy networks can be substantial: increased operational costs, restricted potential for digital transformation and difficulty responding to the demands of the business. Legacy networks are under unprecedented pressure. Upgrades and patches often run behind schedule. Points of vulnerability are multiplying.

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Network World

MAY 3, 2017

What security resources are available? How do IoT firewalls protect against such threats? Many industrial IoT systems have open doors that create unintended vulnerabilities. What information could be exposed by open communications protocols? How do hackers identify vulnerable systems? TCP Port 502 vulnerabilities.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

With the new additions, Juniper is looking to buttress its ability to let users secure all traffic traversing the enterprise network via campus, WAN or data center. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Juniper Networks has expanded its security portfolio with an architecture design that includes AI-based predictive threat support and a new family of firewalls, all designed to protect distributed data center resources. It’s implemented in a new version of the vendor’s core Junos operating system (version 23.4)

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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. It ensures that only the correct entities gain access, regardless of their location or network.

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