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5 Zero Trust and SASE trends for CISOs to watch

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are five Zero Trust and SASE trends I recommend CISOs and security practitioners keep an eye on as they’re considering cybersecurity and risk management strategies. Firewall capabilities will be reconsidered. In the coming months (and years!), NAC will remain a foundational element of Zero Trust. See you there.

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IDG Contributor Network: The new branch office SD-WAN model

Network World

Wrapping up an SD-WAN workshop session with a client last week, I reflected on how rapidly the branch office WAN connectivity and management model is changing. Some great opportunities are emerging for enterprise IT teams that can materially impact how the network is designed, paid for and managed. Here are some thoughts: 1.

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Juniper expands AI management features for wired, wireless networks

Network World

The platform works by gathering telemetry and user state data from Juniper’s routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and applications to offer actionable insights and automated workflows for proactive issue detection and resolution, Juniper says.

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IT pros need to weigh in on that ‘sassy’ security model

Network World

Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform.

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Modern Network Security: How Technology and Smart Practices are Reducing Risk

CIO Business Intelligence

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. In this webcast, we’ll explore: The current trending threats facing networks, like authentication vulnerabilities, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO Business Intelligence

The implications on security of the above three trends fueling digital transformation are profound —we need to protect data and applications that may be located anywhere, to which there are plentiful and multiple bandwidth paths, from end users that are increasingly not even human. SASE is SD-WAN-as-a-service and security-as-a-service.

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Getting a business grip on security frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Gartner, which coined the term, SASE combines network security with WAN capabilities , and can encompass multiple components such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, cloud access security broker functions, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) in a cloud-native delivery model.