CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. This technology is gaining popularity as it provides organizations several benefits, including simplifying network management, enhanced application performance, and operational cost savings. SD-WAN is neither inherently secure nor naturally prone to attacks.

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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

JULY 17, 2024

Network-as-a-service offerings give enterprise organizations access to leading-edge technologies while lowering upfront capital investments, but for some IT teams, the real value of NaaS may be found in the networking and security skills that come with the service. Network monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing optimization: 37.6%

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2023

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. FortiOS version 7.4 also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

JULY 11, 2022

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. 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 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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Network World

MAY 29, 2024

The Best of Enterprise Networking (BENNY) Awards recognize the most innovative products in enterprise networking and the enterprise data center, including the latest wired and wireless networking technologies, network security products, management tools, storage, servers, and virtualization technologies.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

Fortinet has made available a new release of its core FortiOS software that includes features the vendor says will help enterprises more tightly meld security and networking controls. FortiOS 7.2, How to choose an edge gateway. FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation?

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment. 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.

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Network World

JULY 8, 2024

Network security is one of the largest sectors of the cybersecurity market today. As with any technology, network security has undergone several evolutions over the past couple of decades, especially as new features have been added or consolidated into a platform. Then we can talk about where it’s going in the future.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This is where Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) comes into the picture which provides a solution for IoT network management challenges. SD-WAN is a virtualized network technology that enables an organization to aggregate, direct and manage its WAN infrastructure through centralized traffic flow management.

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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

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. However, it’s still important to assess how well SD-WAN and SSE are connected within a SASE solution.

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Network World

OCTOBER 7, 2024

AsiaRF Wi-Fi HaLow IoT network gateway AsiaRF’s dual-band Wi-Fi mesh gateway (ARFHL-AP) is primarily designed for industrial IoT connectivity. AsiaRF says each gateway (priced at $206 per unit) can support over 8,000 stable connections with their innovative star network topology. It can be a router with an optional firewall.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. Its design provides for fast, efficient movement of data on the network while ensuring security and data integrity. Comcast Business offers a unique set of secure network solutions to help power financial services organizations.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2022

NFVIS is Linux-based infrastructure software designed to help enterprises and service providers to deploy virtualized network functions, such as a virtual router, firewall and WAN acceleration, Cisco stated. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amongst Cisco’s dump of 27 security advisories today only one was rated as critical – a vulnerability in its Firepower firewall system that could let an attacker bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on a particular device. The Firepower Management Center (FMC) vulnerability – which was rated at 9.8

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Juniper Networks is working to integrate more of its security services under one AI-centric roof. Secure AI-Native Edge is part of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform , which is aimed at unifying the vendor’s campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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Network World

JUNE 15, 2017

As the SD-WAN market has matured, one thing has become very clear: SD-WAN will not exist on its own. The technology is merging with other networking technologies, ultimately becoming a feature of a much larger bundle. Predominantly, we’re seeing security and SD-WANs merge.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A new offering from IT services provider NTT combines Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE offering with NTT's managed network services and AIOps infrastructure. SASE – secure access service edge – has been gaining interest for its potential to reduce networking complexity while improving security.

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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

MAY 23, 2022

In particular, there’s been pushback around the idea that SASE should be delivered by a single vendor, as a single integrated cloud service at the network edge. The SASE model combines network security functions with WAN capabilities, delivering the security elements in the cloud and using SD-WAN at the edge or in the cloud.

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Network World

JULY 26, 2017

I find SD-WANs to be facing a similar battle. It’s inconceivable to many that an SD-WAN could replace MPLS. At one recent client, a chemical company, the team was looking to transition from MPLS to SD-WAN. CFATS professionals assume MPLS and firewalls to be mandated by the standard. MPLS being the de facto transport.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2023

The vendor added the new features to its FortiSASE offering, which includes SD-WAN, secure web gateway, firewall as a service, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) , all running on top of its FortiOS operating system.

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Network World

AUGUST 23, 2023

Versa is bolstering the AI security management features of its integrated Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) package to include improved malware detection for Advanced Threat Protection, network microsegmention and generative AI protection to help customers better detect and quickly mitigate threats to their networked service and applications.

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Network World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a cloud-based service that combined networking and security so that users located anywhere could safely and efficiently access applications and data located anywhere? That’s the aim of SASE (rhymes with gassy). To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Alkira is expanding its namesake network-as-a-service ( NaaS ) platform with new zero trust network access ( ZTNA ) capabilities. Alkira provides a SaaS service for on-demand network infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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Network World

AUGUST 8, 2017

Wrapping up an SD-WAN workshop session with a client last week, I reflected on how rapidly the branch office WAN connectivity and management model is changing. Some great opportunities are emerging for enterprise IT teams that can materially impact how the network is designed, paid for and managed. Here are some thoughts: 1.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

At its core, SSE combines three main technologies: cloud-access security broker (CASB), secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). The five elements of SASE are CASB, secure web gateway, ZTNA, firewall as a service, and integrated SD-WAN. A cloud service that marries SD-WAN with security

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

And Cisco Live wouldn’t feel like a Cisco event without at least one firewall announcement and sure enough, the company is promoting its new Firewall 1200 Series to address the problem of networking hardware sprawl making SD-WAN harder to implement than it should be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Networks are under pressure like never before. For networking security leaders, too many blind spots in their network security operations means too many vulnerabilities. With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall.

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Network World

MARCH 22, 2021

Magic WAN and Magic Firewall aim to simplify linking sites and datacenters while allowing organizations to better enforce security policies.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before the start of the Covid epidemic, a traditional WAN architecture with centralized security worked well for Village Roadshow. When the pandemic led the company to transition to a hybrid workforce, with most people working from home or from a remote site , it prompted Village Roadshow to rethink its network and security approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

With the proliferation of hybrid clouds, SD-WAN, and a plethora of connected devices and digital platforms, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to ensure end-to-end security is in place. Network connectivity needs to be able to easily scale up to support an organization’s specific requirements.

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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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