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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

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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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

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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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

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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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, he says, web application firewalls don’t only protect applications but cut networking costs by reducing spurious and malicious traffic. Christensen further suggests explaining how security can cut costs or increase productivity.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

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. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel.

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SASE Reality Check: Security and SD-WAN Integration Journey

CIO Business Intelligence

When networking and network security requirements are managed by separate IT teams independently and in parallel, do you achieve the best architecture for digital transformation? So, does implementing a SASE architecture based on a single vendor solve all of these challenges?

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A Reflection On ForAllSecure's Journey In Bootstrapping Behavior Testing Technology

ForAllSecure

Network filters applied by solutions like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) aim to solve symptoms, not the root cause. All patents have been exclusively licensed to ForAllSecure. One common approach to addressing software security issues is applying network filters. This is an easy band-aid. How do we know which software to fix?