Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. IT leaders are responding with a variety of different microsegmentation approaches, all designed to isolate workloads from each other and prevent unauthorized lateral movements. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Cisco is coming out with four next-generation firewall boxes aimed at giving smaller organizations protection that is better sized to their needs and engineered to minimize performance hits as additional security services are turned on.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

At first glance, the web application firewall (WAF) market — populated by long time vendors with robust partner programs, extensive supporting services, and a slew of customer engagement opportunities — may seem like a space that has topped out.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Zero Trust is an architecture that verifies every user and device that tries to access the network and enforces strict access control and identity management that limits authorized users to accessing only those resources they need to do their jobs. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 21, 2021

Today’s enterprise security buyers evaluating a new endpoint security suite often begin with a security RFP layered thick with many existing endpoint security features and capabilities, including antimalware, host firewall, anti-exploit, and application control.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2019

Also read: What to consider when deploying a next generation firewall | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ]. However, many say air-gapping is no longer practical, as the cloud and internet take a hold of massive swaths of data and communications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 1, 2023

To achieve this, businesses are turning to a zero-trust architecture, specifically the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. This is the second installment in our two-part blog series highlighting the ways in which Zscaler helps organizations overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures to deliver superior economic value.

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Firewall Architecture Network Security 90

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.

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Security Firewall Network Applications 243

Forrester IT

JANUARY 31, 2020

Veteran firewall vendor Check Point Software Technologies (hereafter Check Point or CP) held the US edition of its 2020 CPX 360 conference this week in New Orleans. The event gave industry analysts a chance to see what Check Point has been up to.

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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.

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Firewall Applications Security Network 195

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.)

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2015

Their trifecta of Next Generation Firewall, Threat Intelligence and Advanced Endpoint Protection, can be the key to proactive mitigation of the cyber threat. Architecture CTO Cyber Security Advanced Endpoint Protection Cyber Threat firewall Next Generation Firewall Palo Alto Networks Threat Intelligence' Related articles.

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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.

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Banking Strategy Disaster Recovery Financial 58

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. WorkSpaces (for Windows-based desktops).

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Architecture Cloud Storage Vmware 60

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A recent CIO column suggested that the biggest worry for CIOs should not be the fear of AI growth but rather figuring out the best way to gradually incorporate generative AI into the enterprise, either as an add-on model or a foundational piece of the architecture. So, simply blocking LLM access is not the right answer.

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Enterprise Enterprise Firewall Training 114

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The shift to hybrid working requires more openings in firewalls, which in turn places a premium on frequent upgrades to firewall protections. Upgrades and patches often run behind schedule. Points of vulnerability are multiplying.

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Network Security Firewall Research 120

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?".

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Firewall Malware Network Internet 68

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

CCA prerequisites Large organizations usually govern their IT portfolio via global architectural patterns, which can be thought of as building blocks, and include IT security patterns. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

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Financial Architecture Resources Security 99

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

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Government Security Firewall Policies 150

CTOvision

JUNE 3, 2015

FireMon has not only addressed the issues in their “ State of the Firewall Report ,” but also among their customers and most large enterprises. FireMon’s security architecture group is actively working to push new solutions ahead of the curve. Read FireMon’s State of the Firewall report here. Find out more about FireMon here.

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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." Often the bad actors are hard to tell apart from your employees, partners, and customers.

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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?".

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Firewall Malware Network Internet 52

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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CTOvision

JULY 20, 2015

firewalls, endpoint protection, intrusion detection), but attempts at automating the human interaction part of the process have fallen short. Increasing complexity - driven by cloud/mobile centric architectures and infrastructures that are dynamic by design (e.g.

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Security Firewall Architecture Cloud 150

CTOvision

MAY 16, 2017

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

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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. Increasingly, organizations are turning to secure access service edge (SASE) as their armor of choice against cyberattacks. The solution?

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Network Artificial Intelligence WAN Security 106

CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2014

You need to be prepared for this by choosing architectures that will be able to rapidly scale as use grows. The reasons for this frequent choice is due to the architectural traits of these database systems. The horizontally scaling architectures of these database engines can easily grow to match user demand.

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CTOvision

MAY 9, 2017

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

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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.

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Big Data Dell Firewall Storage 258

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.".

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Network Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 150

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

data, security, development, architecture) as well. To maintain the cloud-like experience for users, security must be embedded throughout the cloud-native software development and cloud architecture,” says Upchurch. Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management Everything takes time to accomplish,” Armknecht says.

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Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2024

Consider today’s IT architecture world: on premises, outsourced data center, public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, the edge. Password strategies. Incident response plans. Training and awareness. Encryption. Anti-virus. Authentication. Data at rest. Data in motion. Testing vendor solutions. Risk considered in vendor contracts. State actors.

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Government Tools Training Applications 63

SecureWorld News

MAY 25, 2023

According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence announcement , Volt Typhoon gains initial access to targeted organizations through internet-facing security devices, specifically Fortinet FortiGuard firewalls. Then by using tools present in the environment, they are aiming to remain persistent and evasive.

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Microsoft Firewall Security Network 80

CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

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. Additionally, it includes a Project Development Kit (PDK) and a solution guide. Follow Software AG on Twitter: Software AG North America.

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Internet Big Data Software Software 282

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. Mayhem for API needs to know the URL of your API server. On localhost.

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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. Via Alex Mitelman’s Systems Design Weekly 015 , I was pointed to this AWS article on multi-site active-active architectures. As a learning resource, I thought this post was helpful.

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