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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers.

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SASE success: Avoid confusion and embrace a single-vendor solution

CIO

When deployed properly, a SASE offering like the one Fortinet provides, improves an organization’s network visibility, agility, performance, and security. It’s best to engage with a SASE vendor that has a track record of innovation and one that is continuously updating their SASE solution with upgrades and the latest capabilities.

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New: The Industry’s Most Flexible Software NGFW Consumption Model

Palo Alto Networks

What if there was a licensing approach that would let you procure software firewalls and security services with the speed and flexibility to match rapidly changing cloud requirements? Or how about dynamically resizing your software firewalls in response to changes in your organization? And why stop there? Then they hope for the best.

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Cybersecurity’s Emerging DevOps Challenge in 2020

Dzone - DevOps

As cloud technologies evolve and businesses jostle to become Agile, it’s time for cybersecurity to join the evolutionary race. Their traditional weapons such as firewalls, IPs, and host-based security tools are obsolete in the cloud, and cloud security tools that are meant to replace them are largely ineffectual.

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Complexity keeps pressure on security professionals to keep up with cloud growth

Firemon

C omplexity rears its ugly head because public cloud configuration isn’t automatically li nked to firewall policy configuration. E ven though both determine permissions around data, applications and user activity , one is called cloud configuration , the other is called security configuration.

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Getting Cloud Smart: Security for Hybrid and Public Federal Clouds

Palo Alto Networks

They are implementing VM-Series virtual firewalls, Twistlock and PureSec ( now Prisma Cloud Compute Edition , part of Prisma Cloud) to secure network traffic, protect containers and serverless functions and enable DevSecOps. VM-Series virtual firewalls. Prisma Cloud Compute Edition (formerly Twistlock and PureSec).

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