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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. They tend to utilize a castle-and-moat security strategy focused on the network perimeter. More and more of our applications are outside our data centers. And it worked.

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6 Reasons Our Firewall Platform is Critical for Zero Trust Across Workloads

Palo Alto Networks

A Zero Trust approach of “never trust, always verify” is most effective when it spans all the locations and environments where workloads power and run your applications and data. With this constantly growing interconnectivity in mind, let’s look at the six reasons why our firewalls help ensure a Zero Trust approach at the workload level.

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Need for Speed Drives Security-as-a-Service

CIO

In fact, 42% of SECaaS adopters in F5’s 2023 State of Application Strategy survey cited speed as the main driver. Organizations are using SECaaS for specific security functions such as web application firewall (WAF), web application and API protection (WAAP), distributed denial of service protection (DDoS) and API protection.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center. Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less.

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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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