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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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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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Leveraging Cybersecurity to Supercharge Retail’s Frontline

CIO

By Ravi Balwada, CTO of Guitar Center In retail, we don’t have the luxury of thinking about security as an afterthought. Also thanks to modern cybersecurity , new use cases have become available in retail that were never possible before. There is also the challenge of forensics and investigation of security incidents.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO

Shift-left security” is the concept that security measures, focus areas, and implications should occur further to the left—or earlier—in the lifecycle than the typical phases that used to be entry points for security testing and protections. How did the term shift-left security originate?

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

CIO

In the recent Gartner® Hype Cycle TM for Zero Trust Networking, 2023 report , which evaluates the current status of 19 of “the most relevant and hyped” zero-trust technologies, the cybersecurity industry analysts made a somewhat startling pronouncement about secure access service edge (SASE). What is SASE?

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Cathay Pacific to take cloud journey to new heights

CIO

Cloud optimization is the new initiative in 2024,” says Rajeev Nair, general manager of IT infrastructure and security at Cathay, a major airliner and cargo carrier in the Asia-Pacific region, with headquarters in Hong Kong. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds. It will replace the standard MPLS network, he adds.

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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. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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