Network World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

First, the more serious issue, a firewall flaw. Security researcher Positive Technologies, which hunts for security vulnerabilities, posted a warning that a vulnerability in Cisco firewall appliances could allow hackers to cause them to fail. Forrester Research says there are more than a million of them deployed worldwide.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

Recent research from IDC digs into how SD-WAN will evolve with the integration of AI and machine learning capabilities to provide more advanced automation, management, and security functionality. The first is how AI will be used to improve the management of SD-WAN, says Brandon Butler, senior research manager, enterprise networks, at IDC.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

According to research by Palo Alto, three-quarters of industrial organisations globally have detected malicious cyber activity in their OT environments. Yet with this progress comes new opportunities for hackers. OT can be at the heart of critical infrastructure, meaning disruption could cause major problems and even endanger people.

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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

JULY 30, 2019

As the commercial enterprise firewall approaches its 30th birthday, it is hard to overstate how dramatically the product has evolved. This 2,700-word research report looks the current state of next-generation firewall technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Fresh research from PWC has found that CIOs are far less likely to say that the IT function is prepared for reinvention, compared to 2023. Forresters researchers looked specifically at Security Service Edge (SSE)the category that describes the convergence of cloud-native network and data security servicesfrom Netskope.

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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. Zero trust is anticipated to be a defining trend in the cybersecurity landscape by 2025.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

5 key findings on encrypted attacks The ThreatLabz research team analyzed 32.1 encrypted threats in one quarter with Zscaler By replacing traditional firewalls and VPNs with Zscaler, Wipro strengthened its defenses with inline TLS/SSL inspection of all internet and SaaS traffic to detect and block encrypted threats.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The platform provides visibility, control and governance over the network as well as dynamic service insertion, allowing organizations to integrate third-party services like firewalls into their network. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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Network World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge in a 2019 research report , and the name stuck.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Most discussions about cybersecurity tend to go right to technology, and these days they usually start with the words “next generation” as in next-generation firewalls, IPS, endpoint security, etc. This project resulted in a recently published research report. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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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 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. The research showed that 74.4%

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The supervised models benefit from threat intelligence and security research to determine if the identified anomaly is actually indicative of a security threat. Aryaka has partnered with a security research firm called Sequretek to help build out the AI Observe service to enhance the supervised models.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

NaaS can help address the shortage of networking and security talent by offloading some management tasks to the service provider, according to Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research for network infrastructure and operations at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Data center network engineering (EVPN-VXLAN, SDN overlays): 29.2%

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

An attacker doesn’t need an IoT botnet or massive resources for a denial of service attack to knock large servers offline; researchers warned that all it takes is one laptop for a “ BlackNurse ” attack to bring vulnerable Cisco, SonicWall, Palo Alto and Zyxel firewalls to their knees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The complexity of IT and security infrastructure was highlighted as the greatest obstacle to achieving cyber resilience according to new research, Unlock the Resilience Factor from Zscaler. First and most importantly, it removes IT and cybersecurity complexitythe key impediment to enhancing cyber resilience.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Market research firm DellOro group forecasts that the SASE market will triple by 2026 , topping $13 billion. firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. A flexible, cloud-based firewall delivered as a service can protect these edges.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Each data center offers customers a range of SASE capabilities including cloud firewalls, secure web gateway (SWG), inline cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN , secure service edge (SSE), and threat protection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Coined in 2010 by Forrester Research , the term zero trust has long been hijacked by security vendors eager to take advantage of the hype that surrounds the concept. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures. To learn about their weaknesses in more detail, you can read this ebook.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

NTT’s research finds that two in three organizations confirm their technical debt has accumulated, with 71% saying that low network maturity levels are negatively impacting their operational delivery and ability to meet business goals. For example, 79% told researchers their security strategy is fully aligned with business strategy.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The threat to modern encryption In December 2022, a team of Chinese researchers claimed to have developed a quantum algorithm capable of factoring large integers used in RSA encryption. 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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Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The problem was first discovered by security researchers at content delivery network (CDN) specialist Cloudflare. Also read: Getting the most out of your next-generation firewall. Since then, CDN specialist Akamai and security provider Arbor Networks have also published their findings.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

High-performance environments require packet capture technology that can keep up, notes Sameh Boujelbene, vice president of ethernet switch data center market research at Dell’Oro Group. “We Scalability to adapt to growing enterprise needs, particularly as organizations transition to 100G and 400G networks.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Firewall Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation. Infiniband is commonly used for HPC clusters, data centers, supercomputers and scientific research.

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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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Forrester IT

JULY 10, 2023

I am thrilled to announce that we have updated one of the first pieces of research I published when I joined Forrester in 2018: what we then called “Harden Your Human Firewall.”

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Zero trust architecture with Zscaler Zero trust is not another point product to add to the perimeter-oriented status quo , with its firewalls, VPNs, castle-and-moat security, and the weaknesses of that methodology. Let’s discuss zero trust, AI, and how Zscaler brings the two together to fantastic effect.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. Speakers: Chris Kissel, IDC Research Director, Security & Trust Products. Today, it can be anywhere. . Steps that security and networking leaders can take to shore up defenses.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2018

According to Market Research Future , NaaS is expected to become a US $126 billion market by 2022, sustaining an annual growth rate of 28.4 Enterprises that have grown comfortable with Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (IaaS) are increasingly accepting of Network as a Service (NaaS).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Weve heard rumors of model contamination or poisoning, even though documented research shows potential vulnerabilities (e.g., Anecdotal evidence shows that even LLM firewall providers havent encountered attacks in recent months. training image recognition models to misidentify objects).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

Cybersecurity products like next-generation firewalls , single vendor secure access service edge (SASE), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) are the best way to protect enterprise data and employees. The research testing company you select needs to ensure their tests measure the most critical criteria for your organization.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Research firm Gartner is also bullish on network automation, forecasting that 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities by 2026 , up from only 10% in mid-2023. To meet digital transformation initiatives, businesses across the economy are seeking ways to automate network operations.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. IDC splits the difference between SASE and SSE.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

We manage some locally hosted energy solutions where there’s a control network, which may be feeding into a local network, which then feeds into the cloud, which then comes through another set of firewalls….” said Steven Nieland, VP of software engineering and controls at Faith Technologies.

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