CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2025

What is a human firewall? A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

Cato Networks this week introduced its next-generation firewall as part of its secure access service edge (SASE) platform, saying the NGFW would mitigate security vulnerabilities left unpatched by manual efforts. The Cato LAN NGFW flips the script, delivering always up-to-date protection without the patching chaos of firewall appliances.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Fortinet has refreshed its branch office firewalls, adding power and features to its next-generation FortiGate G-series devices. FortiManager lets customers create and deploy security policies across multiple firewalls, simplifying administration in large, distributed enterprises, according to Fortinet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity threats, traditional pillars like firewalls and VPNs are struggling to keep pace with the evolving challenges. Once hailed as the foundation of security, firewalls and VPNs now find themselves outdated and inadequate.

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

Network administrators with Fortinets FortiGate next generation firewall in their IT environments are being warned to thoroughly scrutinize systems for possible compromise, following last weeks dump of stolen configuration and VPN credentials by a threat actor. Patching is not enough, tweeted cybersecurity researcher Florian Roth on Thursday.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

The post said that the issue is caused because the DCs did not use the domain firewall profile when rebooted, instead reverting to the standard firewall profile. As a result, it said, applications or services running on the domain controller or on remote devices may fail, or remain unreachable on the domain network.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For its enterprise security offerings, NTT Data partners with Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft and others to provide services including firewalls, endpoint security, and cloud application protection. NTT Data offers a wide range of IT services, and its competitors include Accenture, Infosys, IBM and Tata.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

FortiAppSec Cloud is a part of the vendor’s overarching Security Fabric platform that ties together security products including FortiGate firewalls, FortiAnalyzer security management and FortiClient endpoint protection. In addition, automated analytics can reduce alert fatigue, Hwang stated.

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Network World

JUNE 11, 2025

New secure firewalls Adding to the product payload, Cisco is introducing two new secure firewall models. The Secure Firewall 200 series is directed at branches that need on-box decryption and threat inspection. With these updates, the entire firewall line at Cisco has been refreshed in the past couple of years.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

OT is not IT However, she doesnt feel that lumping together internet connected firewalls, routers, IoT devices, and OT systems in an advisory is helpful to the community, and neither is calling them edge devices, because it assumes that enterprise IT is the center of the universe and the edge is out there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Shining a light on the OT network NTT DATA has teamed up with Palo Alto Networks (PAN) to solve this challenge.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Graphiant correlates the network traffic data with threat intelligence to identify potentially malicious connections, not just relying on static firewall rules. He also noted that Graphiant can provide a continuous feedback loop to the firewall systems to help optimize the rules based on the observed traffic patterns and risks.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

“NetBox Discovery agents connect with a zero-trust architecture up to a control plane for orchestration that can be in the cloud, or self-hosted, enabling this architecture without needing to reconfigure firewalls or similar.” Also of note is that NetBox works for on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Network World

MARCH 11, 2025

Fortinets OT Security Platform includes firewalls, switches, network access control, security information and event management, analytics and AI management capabilities. This feature allows the firewall to automate and secure digital and physical processes on site, Shah wrote.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

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, according to Gillis. AI Defense will be available in March.

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Network World

MAY 29, 2025

It blocks threats before they even reach your firewall, dramatically reducing the alert pressure your security team manages.

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2025

Scheduling tasks to be run at specific dates and times The following commands can be used to set up tasks to be run at specific times – once or regularly: cron and crontab – to schedule and view recurring tasks at and batch – to schedule one-time tasks Managing disks and file systems File systems on Linux systems can be managed with the following commands: (..)

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Network World

MAY 8, 2025

The most common causes of major network-related outages were cited as: Configuration/change management failure: 50% Third-party network provider failure: 34% Hardware failure: 31% Firmware/software error: 26% Line breakages: 17% Malicious cyberattack: 17% Network overload/congestion failure: 13% Corrupted firewall/routing tables issues: 8% Weather-related (..)

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Network World

JANUARY 6, 2025

Advantages of adopting a Zero Trust architecture: A Zero Trust cloud security platform stops ransomware at every stage of the attack cycle: Minimizing the attack surface: Replacing exploitable VPN and firewall architectures with a zero trust architecture hides users, applications, and devices behind a cloud proxy, making them invisible and undiscoverable (..)

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

A secure web gateway (SWG), cloud-access security broker (CASB) and firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) are part of the Prisma SASE bundle. The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0, Kyndryl has security and networking relationships with other partners as well, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia and Fortinet.)

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Network World

JULY 1, 2025

CASB, along with other critical security functions like Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), are all converging under the SASE umbrella. The SASE model gaining traction because it addresses the complexity of modern, distributed workforces and cloud-first environments.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Also on the NGFW front, Palo Alto tied together its firewalls with Pentes Hypercore package to let customers see applications, services, subscribers and devices on a private wireless network so that customers can secure, multitenant private wireless deployments.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While API security and web application firewalls are often used for exactly this purpose, they operate on deterministic content. “The trouble with unstructured, unpredictable input and output is the difficulty inherent in determining whether a request or response contains sensitive or incorrect information.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

With growing concerns over advanced threats, VPN security issues, network complexity, and adversarial AI, enterprises are showing increased interest in a zero trust approach to security and moving away from firewall-and-VPN based architecture. Zero trust is anticipated to be a defining trend in the cybersecurity landscape by 2025.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

While the SD-WAN and SASE markets continue to converge, Butler says enterprises should evaluate the natively integrated security capabilities offered by SD-WAN vendors, which include intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), next-generation firewall (NGFW), and content/web/URL filtering.

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Network World

MARCH 24, 2025

Many of these focus on redundant servers, incident and threat identification and reporting, vulnerability assessments, risk mitigation strategies, user authentication controls and least privilege (no one gets more privilege than they require) principles along with the use of firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPNs.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 13, 2025

AI firewall represents a significant advancement in the realm of cybersecurity, offering a smarter approach to network protection. As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, traditional firewalls often fall short in their ability to detect and respond to these evolving challenges. What is an AI firewall?

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2025

The evolution from secure web gateways to SASE Traditional small business security has relied heavily on on-premises firewalls and secure web gateways (SWG), which filter web traffic at the network perimeter. “They have a unique need where they want the same level of reliability as a large enterprise expects [and] they also expect support.”

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

The new capability provides automated backup and one-click recovery for network configurations, DNS settings, CDN configurations, firewalls, security groups and other infrastructure components that are essential for application delivery but frequently overlooked in traditional disaster recoveryplanning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

So, to protect it, organizations deploy appliances like firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) in an attempt to establish a security perimeter that keeps bad things out and good things in. Its a more intelligent approach to security that lacks the manifold weaknesses of firewalls and VPNs.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

encrypted threats in one quarter with Zscaler By replacing traditional firewalls and VPNs with Zscaler, Wipro strengthened its defenses with inline TLS/SSL inspection of all internet and SaaS traffic to detect and block encrypted threats. Case study: Learn how Wipro blocked 8.2M Read their story here.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The platform provides visibility, control and governance over the network as well as dynamic service insertion, allowing organizations to integrate third-party services like firewalls into their network. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2025

The switches block unauthorized endpoints and lateral movement within the switch, enforcing granular security and access policies using real-time endpoint context and removing the need to reroute traffic to distant firewalls for basic access control, Dorai stated.

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Network World

JUNE 16, 2025

Isovalent’s technology is also part of Cisco’s Hypershield platform, which supports automated microsegmentation, distributed exploit protection and zone-firewalling based on smart switches all controlled using a single control plane that can span infrastructure from data center, cloud, to modern Kubernetes environments, Graf said.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2025

AI Canvas can also gather information from non-Cisco security systems, such as firewalls, according to Anurag Dhingra , senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s enterprise connectivity and collaboration group. The data comes together in real-time dashboards to guide corrective actions.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Customers can secure local access with next-generation firewall and all outbound access, including internet and private application access, to apply more granular and uniform enforcement via device isolation.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

FortiAnalyzer securely collects logs from Fortinet devices such as FortiGate firewalls and endpoint security agents.It Fortinet has reinforced its FortiAnalyzer security analytics and log management platform with capabilities that enhance enterprise threat detection and automate incident response.

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