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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. The WAN was how we got access to some websites and sent emails. Why do we need to create site-to-site VPNs or some sort of modern SD-WAN topology connecting all our branches when almost all traffic goes to the public internet and the cloud?

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

CIO

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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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. On April 22, Sophos published a knowledge base entry on the Sophos Community regarding the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. Background. Proof of concept.

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CVE-2021-1609: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Cisco Small Business VPN Routers

Tenable

While both flaws exist due to improper validation of HTTP requests and can be exploited by sending specially crafted HTTP requests, CVE-2021-1610 can only be exploited by an authenticated attacker with root privileges. In January 2019, Cisco published advisories for two different vulnerabilities in its RV320 and RV325 WAN VPN routers.

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Palo Alto Networks Recognized in Critical Capabilities Report

Palo Alto Networks

In November 2021, for the tenth consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls, positioned the highest for Ability to Execute and the furthest for Completeness of Vision. And, on January 17th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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Palo Alto Networks Recognized in Critical Capabilities Report

Palo Alto Networks

Highest Scores for Enterprise Edge and Distributed Enterprise Use Cases In December 2022, for the eleventh consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls. And on May 16th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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Network Security Investment Priority #2: Zero Trust

Firemon

Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Firewalls as a Service (FWaas). Firewall interfaces are configured into connect network segments into security zones. SD-WAN connects to cloud providers and newer types of endpoints. SD-WAN connects to cloud providers and newer types of endpoints. Two-factor authentication.

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