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IDG Contributor Network: Can SD-WANs meet standards requirements?

Network World

I find SD-WANs to be facing a similar battle. It’s inconceivable to many that an SD-WAN could replace MPLS. This is particularly true for security teams. At one recent client, a chemical company, the team was looking to transition from MPLS to SD-WAN. Before Salesforce, many thought CRM to be too critical to run as SaaS.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past three or four years, the industry has been abuzz with the concept of delivering converged security and networking features via the cloud. Because SASE touches so many elements of security and networking, most enterprises use multiple vendors and point products to build a solution.

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8 best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the past three or four years, the industry has been abuzz with the concept of delivering converged security and networking features via the cloud. Because SASE touches so many elements of security and networking, most enterprises use multiple vendors and point products to build a solution.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

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. We predict that the convergence of networking and security will continue to expand to more areas. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO Business Intelligence

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is one of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the past decade. According to a recent study published by Dell’Oro Group, the worldwide sales of SD-WAN technologies are forecasted to grow at double-digit rates over each of the next five years to surpass $3.2 billion in 2024. Key considerations.

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North Korean Threat Actors Targeting Healthcare Sector with Maui Ransomware

SecureWorld News

Silas Cutler, Principal Reverse Engineer at security firm Stairwell, authored a report detailing Maui and what his team uncovered about the lesser-known ransomware variant. Only store personal patient data on internal systems that are protected by firewalls, and ensure extensive backups are available if data is ever compromised.".

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. That’s a no-no from a security perspective—see here to learn why. Mike Foley shared recently that the release candidate of the vSphere 5 Security Hardening Guide has been released. Check it out here.

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