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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

Understanding Lateral Threat Movement Lateral threat movement refers to the capability of an attacker, once they gain a foothold within a network, to move between devices and resources in search of valuable data or systems to compromise. Our unique agentless architecture protects headless machines.

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Nvidia jumps into Zero Trust

Network World

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 Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].

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How to maximize hard-dollar ROI on security technology investments

CIO Business Intelligence

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025?

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. This model does not scale.

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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

Network World

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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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. 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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Zero Trust + AI: A match made in the clouds

Network World

In other words, zero trust and AI actually refer to real, specific things that are of value to organizations’ security postures. 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.

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