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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

Understanding Lateral Threat Movement Lateral threat movement refers to the capability of an attacker, once they gain a foothold within a network, to move between devices and resources in search of valuable data or systems to compromise. Segmentation projects that never finish” is a well know phenomenon in the networking world.

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Nvidia jumps into Zero Trust

Network World

You cannot just rely on the firewall on the outside, you have to assume that any application or any user inside your data center is a bad actor,” said Manuvir Das, head of enterprise computing at Nvidia. Zero Trust basically just refers to the fact that you can't trust any application or user because there are bad actors.”

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Cisco, Nvidia team to deliver secure AI factory infrastructure

Network World

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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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

Network World

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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We’re in the Unified SASE Era. What’s next?

Network World

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

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How to maximize hard-dollar ROI on security technology investments

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Customers also saved on internal and external labor, equipment management, support, and maintenance.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. Network as a service (NaaS) : NaaS is a cloud-based service that provides network infrastructure, such as routers, switches and firewalls, as a service.

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