mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Summary: As technology evolves at breakneck speed, it brings new opportunities and challenges to web application development. If businesses want to create lasting, successful web applications, they must address these challenges. Let’s talk about web applications. Why are web applications so important?

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Applications Development Web Developers Web Development 52

Forrester IT

JANUARY 21, 2020

The F5 Networks acquisition of Shape Security marked the third time in a year that a web application firewall (WAF) vendor purchased a bot management solution, as fellow Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli noted in her blog (The WAF-Bot Management Acquisition Waltz). David Holmes formerly worked for both F5 Networks and Shape Security.

Security 243

Security Firewall Network Applications 243

Forrester IT

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The Shape Security sale caps off a year of bot management acquisitions by web application firewall (WAF) vendors. With F5 Networks buying themselves a $1 billion Christmas present in Shape Security, it’s a good time to review the state of the bot management market.

Firewall 195

Firewall Applications Security Network 195

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center. To achieve this, businesses are turning to a zero-trust architecture, specifically the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange.

Firewall 85

Firewall Architecture Network Security 85

CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

Start by understanding the environment to be protected, including all applications in play. Decide which of the applications are legitimate for the environment, and whitelist those to prevent dangerous and unnecessary applications from running. In order to become more proactive, it’s important to follow a plan.

Network 150

Network Firewall Applications CTO 150

Phil Windley

AUGUST 28, 2023

Past practices included techniques like virtual private networks (VPNs) that tried to emulate the idea of an intranet where trusted computers and people were protected from hackers by a firewall that "kept the bad stuff out." Authorization platforms like Cedar are available to control access to your infrastructure and applications.

Authentication 85

Authentication Policies Applications Firewall 85

CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2014

As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. There’s no denying the massive growth in mobile applications within the enterprise.

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Mobile Development Applications Engineering 264

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Many organizations rely on legacy security architectures to secure their cloud workloads. They often use a combination of: Cloud native security solutions offered by cloud service providers Multiple security tools (firewall, VPN, TLS/SSL inspection, DLP, etc.)

Cloud 89

Cloud Policies Architecture Security 89

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

The CCA allows overarching enterprise functions and IT shared services to be assessed separately from the business unit’s products/applications that require PCI security compliance. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

Financial 92

Financial Architecture Resources Security 92

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Speaking at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Jason Cao, Huawei’s CEO of Digital Finance BU, acknowledged that digital financial services are “booming” and that the rise of open architecture as well as emerging technologies like generative AI will have an impact on key fields in the industry such as financial engagement and credit loans.

Banking 56

Banking Strategy Disaster Recovery Financial 56

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 194

Software Software Data Center Hardware 194

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. In many cases, organizations adopt legacy network security solutions and architectures to secure these cloud workloads that often fail to provide complete security coverage. In fact, a few of the most common challenges include: Risk. Operational costs.

Cloud 128

Cloud Architecture IBM Security 128

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

data, security, development, architecture) as well. This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. Are we taking advantage of cloud-native benefits?

Strategy 141

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 141

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In short, SASE brings together software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services such as cloud access security broker, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access. We also work closely with your IT team to make migration and integration with your applications and services as smooth as possible.

Network 99

Network Artificial Intelligence WAN Security 99

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Proven methodologies developed years ago allowed us to reliably connect users, applications, and smart devices that propelled our organizations forward. However, new developments in how employees work, businesses operate, and applications are managed are necessitating sweeping, revolutionary change. And it worked.

Data Center 138

Data Center Network Applications Security 138

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

This is a liveblog of the AWS re:Invent session titled “Hybrid Architectures: Bridging the Gap to the Cloud” (ARC208). The speaker for the session is Jamie Butler, Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS (focused on state/local government). Butler says there will be some demos along the way. VPC and Direct Connect.

Architecture 60

Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

This is the industry’s first universal kernel bypass (UKB) solution which includes three techniques for kernel bypass: a POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) sockets-based API (Application Program Interface), TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) Direct and DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit). Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

Software 151

Software Software Data Center Hardware 151

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The vice president of IT is responsible for overseeing specific aspects of the organization’s IT operations, whether it’s infrastructure, security, data management, or applications. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

Engineering 109

Engineering Devops Architecture Software 109

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2024

Shadow IT introduces systems and applications that are often outside of an enterprise’s catalog of IT tools. Consider today’s IT architecture world: on premises, outsourced data center, public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, the edge. Audits of applications should lead to the sunsetting of duplicative systems. Data in motion.

Government 60

Government Tools Training Applications 60

SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

Firewall 69

Firewall Malware Network Internet 69

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? It provides smart applications for translation, speech-to-text, cybersecurity monitoring and automation.

Dell 83

Dell Intel Open Source Hardware 83

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Achieving these objectives takes perceptive analysis, meticulous planning, and skillful execution. “There are many factors to consider, including application complexity, legacy application requirements, data location, and compliance,” says Dilip Mishra, SAP delivery leader for the Cloud Migration and Modernization practice at Kyndryl.

SAP 52

SAP Cloud Data Center Applications 52

CTOvision

MAY 6, 2015

Enterprises use FireMon to perform key management tasks like Firewall rules cleanup, firewall policy changes, reducing complexity of firewall rulesets and ensuring compliance. Made possible through a re-engineered horizontal architecture, which my colleagues will address in subsequent posts, Security Manager 8.0

Government 150

Government Security Firewall Policies 150

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

“It’s about optimizing the cloud workload, rewriting some of the applications, and, [as] ESG comes into the big picture, how we can be more efficient to reduce Co2 emissions.” Delivering a zero-trust security posture is an integral part of a SASE architecture and integral to emerging SASE offerings.”

Cloud 90

Cloud Airlines Network Security 90

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. This role requires the ability to build web and mobile applications with a focus on user experience, functionality, and usability.

Devops 143

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 143

SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2021

CISA mentions that firewalls could have been used to neutralize the malware, limiting the impact of the breach. Does CISA agree that the SolarWinds malware could have been neutralized had victim agencies placed firewalls in front of the servers running SolarWinds Orion and configured them to block outgoing connections to the internet?".

Firewall 52

Firewall Malware Network Internet 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

However, the increased complexity of a distributed application architecture brought on by digital transformation continues to challenge even the largest security operations. Again, there is no one-size fits all protection and the security requirements for cloud differ from on-premise architectures.

Security 88

Security WAN Network Cloud 88

ForAllSecure

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s safe to say that APIs are now a critical part of modern application architectures today. In the age of SaaS applications and infrastructure, many architectures are designed around being API-first for managing data ingestion and retrieval. Start Fuzzing your APIs for Free! On localhost. In a private network.

Architecture 52

Architecture Firewall Applications Network 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 105

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 105

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The “aware” are mature and focus on #DevOps and integrated ways to deploy secure capabilities (like programmatically deploying firewall rules in #cloud). Between them and] those who are not is a HUGE gap – not a lot in the middle. @DigitalSecArch Imagine designing an office building without architectural plans.

Cloud 106

Cloud Security How To Network 106

CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2015

According to Tim Treat, Palo Alto Networks cyber security professional and speaker at the Insider Threat Summit: "The goal is to help transition organizations to a prevention focus, helping to build alliances between CIOs and CISOs to approach CFOs together explaining a way that makes prevention organic to their architecture and security strategy.".

Network 150

Network Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 150

CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Defense Daily’s 2014 Open Architecture Summit, … Read more on Defense Daily Network (subscription). Upcoming Industry Events.

Dell 258

Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

All the pieces needed to quickly install and run the application are included. Architecture Big Data Real-time data Software AG SOW' The IoT Solution Accelerator includes connectors to popular IoT providers such as Axeda’s Machine Streams and AT&Ts M2M platform. Follow Software AG on Twitter: Software AG North America.

Internet 282

Internet Big Data Software Software 282

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 6, 2021

I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. This post on using SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kubernetes, and Envoy together shows how to implement mutual TLS (mTLS) for a simple application. Operating Systems/Applications.

Open Source 60

Open Source Load Balancer WAN Architecture 60

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 13, 2023

To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going. “If Application Management, Budgeting, CIO, CSO and CISO, Data and Information Security, IT Leadership, Security

Security 107

Security Budget Information Security Applications 107

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. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

Firewall 88

Firewall Network WAN Security 88

TM Forum

JANUARY 27, 2022

Prior to stepping up to the role of CTO in September 2021, Leboucher was Vice President Digital IT, Customer Relation Solutions and Global Architecture, Orange Labs Services, where he played an instrumental role in transforming Orange’s IT systems. Orange is an Open RAN advocate. In November. All of which will mean retraining.

CTO 130

CTO Network Cloud Virtualization 130