Network World

JULY 17, 2023

Cisco announced a containerized firewall package for its venerable Catalyst switch family that’s designed to help enterprise customers with mixed IT and OT systems more easily segment network resources and save money by consolidating network and security deployments.

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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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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. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. Convergence

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The technology also facilitates network slicing, which allows organisations to create wireless virtual networks for specific applications or departments. With 5G, the OT network is encrypted end-to-end, which enables completely secure communication between devices and systems.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Uptime Institute Certified Data Center Technician Professional ( CDCTP ) Focus: Optimizing the operational capability and productivity of the data center Key topics: Compliance, safety, maintenance, power, and cooling Format: Five-day instructor-led training program delivered in person or remotely in a virtual environment.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2018

Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. Companies have relied on firewalls , virtual local area networks (VLAN) and access control lists (ACL) for network segmentation for years. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Network segmentation isn’t new.

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Each EX4000 12-, 24-, and 48-port model also offers an additional 2 x 1GbE/10GbE SFP+ ports to support Virtual Chassis connections, which can be reconfigured for use as network ports, according to Juniper.All models support IEEE 802.3bz, which defines Ethernet speeds of 2.5GbE and 5GbE over twisted pair copper cabling.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2023

FortiOS is the operating system for the FortiGate family hardware and virtual components, and it implements Fortinet Security Fabric and includes firewalling, access control, Zero Trust, and authentication in addition to managing SD-WAN, switching, and wireless services. FortiOS version 7.4

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Hypershield is 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. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6 We believe that we need security for AI, and we need AI for security,” Robbins said.

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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. Learn more.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Network slicing Network slicing can make efficient use of carriers’ wireless capacity to enable 5G virtual networks that exactly fit customer needs. 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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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS implements Fortinet Security Fabric and includes network security such as firewalling, access control, and authentication in addition to SD-WAN, switching, and wireless services. FortiOS 7.2, How to choose an edge gateway.

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Network World

JULY 8, 2024

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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Tech Republic

JANUARY 10, 2025

Discover when a virtual firewall excels plus its advantages over traditional options so you can determine if it's right for you.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition, the vendor added virtual patching signatures in the FortiGuard OT Security Service that offers vulnerability protection and unpatched OT asset shielding. It also allows virtual patching to be deployed to protect against urgent vulnerabilities.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Firewalld is a commonly used Linux firewall service while notables provides filtering and classification of network packets. These technologies encrypt virtual machine memory to obscure its contents from the system hypervisor,” McBrien said. He also noted that Intel SGX and AMD SEV support are in tech preview.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These open source products deliver simple routing and networking features, plus they are combined with security functionality, starting with a basic firewall and possibly including antivirus, antispam and Web filtering. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.” SDN continues to grow, so I’d recommend tech professionals in these types of roles upskill in areas like network function virtualization and centralized network management to keep up with current market demand.”

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Plus, they are combined with security functionality, starting with a basic firewall and possibly including antivirus, antispam and Web filtering. These products can be downloaded and deployed on your own hardware, on a virtual platform, or in the cloud.

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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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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Increasingly used in large network setups, SD-WAN uses web-based tunnels, firewall software, and virtual technologies to connect remote endpoints. The post What Is SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN)? Definition, Solutions, and Benefits appeared first on Spiceworks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Security risks are often exacerbated by vulnerabilities in internet-accessible administrative login pages of core networking and security appliances, including routers, firewalls and VPNs, Unit 42 stated. Application layer protocols such as SNMP, NetBIOS and PPTP are most often susceptible.

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Network World

JUNE 22, 2016

Preempt is a startup whose virtual appliance acts as a behavioral firewall that ranks the risk a user or device represents and responds automatically based on policies set by corporate security pros.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

The AI-Native Networking Platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution.

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CTOvision

JULY 29, 2015

For an overview from Dave Dewalt, CEO of FireEye, see the video at this link and below: Here is the gist of what they do: FireEye has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. The traditional WAN model requires that remote users connect via VPNs, with firewalls at each location or on individual devices. billion by 2025. What are the core security features of SASE?

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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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? For example, a smartphone that can share its 4G/5G connection with other users basically acts like a wireless router.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. Secure AI-Native Edge defines the security tools and designs to protect those enterprise environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. However, companies still on legacy systems like VPNs faced significant roadblocks.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is session COMS002, titled “Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization.” Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

In a global environment where data is at increased risk from bad actors with access to sophisticated technology, traditional perimeter-centric safeguards, such as firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), don’t stand up to modern threats from outside the perimeter. In fact, internal networks no longer offer implicit trust either.

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Network World

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It can be a router with an optional firewall. The HaLow connection serves as a means to provide a virtual Ethernet link between two points where running a physical cable may not be feasible. It can act as a DHCP client, relay, or server. Deployment methods One of the simplest deployment methods of this gateway is HaLow bridge mode.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2024

Those are the questions explored in virtual CIO Think Tank roundtables held in April and May 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….”

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