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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

Those organizations that don’t make that change risk losing their customers to those that adopted an agile, customer-centric approach to business. However, for many financial services organizations, security and agility traditionally haven’t been mutually achievable—oftentimes, one was sacrificed for the other.

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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. efficiency, agility, cost savings) as well as any performance characteristics that will help determine whether it is a good candidate for cloud.

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

But in this next cloud optimization phase, the airliner will focus on enhancing the security and performance of these workloads on the cloud, says Nair, who was hired by Cathay in 2011 as an application service manager, working his way up to his current position 10 years later. The cloud has helped us to be more scalable and agile.”

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

Our customers are excited about the cloud for the agility, flexibility and scalability it provides. Our managed firewall service even integrates with Azure Virtual WAN deployments, so customers can protect traffic across their entire networks. Every day this technology blocks nearly 5 billion events, analyzes 3.5

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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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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.

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MYTH #3: It’s Better To Block Than To Permit Access

Firemon

Modern-era firewalls are designed around a positive security model, which means they deny all access that is not administratively permitted. Every rule added to the firewall is a decision to permit more access – and to accept more risk. Managing firewall rules has been an intensely manual and fragmented process.