Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is looking to expand the role SASE plays in securing private 5G networks by collaborating with additional partners to offer end-to-end communications protection. To truly safeguard enterprise, government and industrial operations, organizations need a holistic 5G security package.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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.

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Network World

JUNE 11, 2025

Secure global connectivity Since early in the company’s history, Cisco has been a trusted partner to service providers. New secure firewalls Adding to the product payload, Cisco is introducing two new secure firewall models. And it provides a single dashboard with an embedded AI assistant.

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Network World

JUNE 10, 2025

“There’s this AI explosion happening right now, where AI is growing and diversifying much more rapidly than anyone can keep up with,” said Craig Connors , vice president and CTO of Cisco’s Security Business Group. This approach secures against interception by rogue devices or malicious edge endpoints, Dorai stated.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The release focuses on streamlining network operations across cloud, SD-WAN and traditional environments while strengthening security and compliance capabilities. The platform update also introduces over 160 automated intent verification checks to help verify compliance and security posture. Key updates in version 7.0

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Network World

MAY 27, 2025

We needed a simpler, more reliable security posture, where networking and security worked together by design, managed via a common interface and delivered by a single partner. In 2024, he added Fortinets SD-WAN and SASE services. And this year he is focusing on automation and AI with Fortinets SecOps platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. This approach embraces Zero Trust principles to deliver flexibility, simplify operations, and improve security. Enter SD-WAN: cheaper than MPLS and designed for cloud-first traffic patterns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

This new approach to branch office design and connectivity is rapidly becoming a top priority for organizations that want to balance security, connectivity, and the evolving expectations of their workforce. But SD-WAN created a new problem: security. This shift in employee sentiment has presented a challenge for CIOs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2025

However, managing security on disparate and unmanaged devices is an uphill battle. This challenging new reality requires companies to rethink their security architectures that have not traditionally focused on the browser. There are challenges facing security visibility and controls, too. What can resolve this dilemma?

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Network World

MARCH 12, 2025

To support such a successful and popular franchise, the Steelers require cutting-edge technology to ensure everyone using their network, including fans, coaches, and the back office, has a fast, seamless, and secure experience. Nirav: What are some of the biggest security concerns for the Steelers?

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

The secure access service edge ( SASE ) provider also enhanced its digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities with AI-powered root-cause analysis and automated network diagnostics. Its not enough to have all the right security tools or network services or even that theyve converged. All updates are available now.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

Trade disputes impact the cost and security of IT supply chains, alter the accessibility of cybersecurity tools, and could even lead to retaliatory cyberattacks from nation-state actors. Longer refresh cycles on security appliances and infrastructure, leaving organizations running older, less secure systems. and other countries.

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Network World

AUGUST 3, 2023

Fortinet has added new features to its SD-WAN software and a next-generation firewall series that promise to help customers better monitor and protect distributed enterprise resources.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amongst Cisco’s dump of 27 security advisories today only one was rated as critical – a vulnerability in its Firepower firewall system that could let an attacker bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions with administrative privileges on a particular device.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2023

Tighter integration between Fortinet's SASE and SD-WAN offerings is among the new features enabled by the latest version of the company's core operating system. also includes better automation across its Security Fabric environment, and improved management features. FortiOS version 7.4 To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

MAY 30, 2024

Cellular gateways transpose a cellular signal into wired WAN Ethernet connectivity, enabling high-speed, always-on cellular network connectivity for business-critical operations, wrote Pratik S. Desai, product marketing lead for 5G fixed wireless access and WAN application assurance for SD-WANs at Cisco, in a blog about the new devices.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Kyndryl continues to fill out its stable of network security partners, most recently inking an alliance with Palo Alto Networks for cybersecurity, SD-WAN and secure access service edge ( SASE ) services. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to deliver on its overarching enterprise AI plans, this time adding features that will help customers proactively spot and fix WAN routing, SD-WAN and SASE problems. Now operators can resolve SD-WAN issues before users even connect.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

These details are from the Check Point 2024 Cyber Security Report , which paints a combination of grim prospects and optimism. One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. Along with the rise of SD-WAN is the growing use of edge devices, which are now targeted by threat actors.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

The concept of the secure access service edge ( SASE ) is one that many organizations have embraced in recent years. The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment. What is sovereign SASE and why is it needed?

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

Fortinet has made available a new release of its core FortiOS software that includes features the vendor says will help enterprises more tightly meld security and networking controls. FortiOS 7.2, How to choose an edge gateway. FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components.

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Network World

JULY 26, 2017

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

By: Nav Chander , Head of Service Provider SD-WAN/SASE Product Marketing at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. 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?

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

What today is known as secure service edge (SSE) started under a different name — secure access service edge (SASE) — with a slightly different meaning. In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2022

Secure access service edge ( SASE ) has generated a buzz over the last couple of years, particularly in light of the pandemic and its associated surge in remote employees. The SASE model combines network security functions with WAN capabilities, delivering the security elements in the cloud and using SD-WAN at the edge or in the cloud.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Juniper Networks is working to integrate more of its security services under one AI-centric roof. Secure AI-Native Edge is part of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform , which is aimed at unifying the vendor’s campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Juniper is filling out its enterprise security portfolio this week by integrating support for its Mist wireless customers and adding the capability for customers to gain better visibility and control over encrypted traffic threats. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2020

Cloud services that provide both network and security intelligence are gaining popularity because they are easy to consume and they improve agility. Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a cloud-based service that combined networking and security so that users located anywhere could safely and efficiently access applications and data located anywhere? Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge in a 2019 research report , and the name stuck.

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Network World

MARCH 28, 2019

Cisco has dropped 17 Security advisories describing 19 vulnerabilities in the software that runs most of its routers and switches, IOS and IOS/XE. The company also announced that two previously issued patches for its RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers were “incomplete” and would need to be redone and reissued.

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Network World

AUGUST 23, 2023

Versa is bolstering the AI security management features of its integrated Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) package to include improved malware detection for Advanced Threat Protection, network microsegmention and generative AI protection to help customers better detect and quickly mitigate threats to their networked service and applications.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2023

Fortinet continues to enhance its Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) package by adding support for microbranches, extending wireless LAN protections, and improving data loss prevention (DLP) and end-user monitoring capabilities. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Cisco has patched three critical security holes in its IOS XE software that's used across a variety of its core routers and switches. The three critical warnings are part of a big release of 32 security alerts , many of which are IOS XE-related, including firewall, SD-WAN and wireless access vulnerabilities.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

SASE – secure access service edge – has been gaining interest for its potential to reduce networking complexity while improving security. A new offering from IT services provider NTT combines Palo Alto Networks' Prisma SASE offering with NTT's managed network services and AIOps infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

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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