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5 reasons to move to a network platform

CIO

In these environments, unifying and integrating platform capabilities like identity management, policy automation, segmentation, analytics, and assurance are essential for creating consistent architectures and design principles across domains, implementing proven best practices, increasing standardization, and enhancing security.

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Hybrid working: network managers need to take care of unfinished business

CIO

But even though hybrid working is here to stay, organizations may still lack the cybersecurity controls and business-grade internet connections, like SD-WAN, that are required to support remote and hybrid workers. NTT’s recipe for hybrid working begins with zero trust network architecture, identity management and multifactor authentication.

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The Cable Security Experience

CableLabs

Let’s review these two network architectures and then discuss the threats that HFC and PON networks face. We’ll discuss the two architectures and conclude by briefly discussing the security of the DOCSIS HFC networks. A Review of HFC and PON Architectures. tapping the coax or fiber cable).

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Going Beyond the (Net)Flow: Introducing Universal Data Records

Kentik

We call the new architectural element “Universal Data Records” (UDRs) , and with this, Kentik now has the ability to innovate faster than ever before—adding more data sources to our platform to stay ahead of and address the always-evolving network visibility challenges faced by our customers.

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The 8 Best Practices for Reducing Your Organization’s Attack Surface

Ivanti

Support zero trust access and contextual authentication, vulnerability, policy, configuration and data management by integrating with identity, security and remote-access tools. One area in which organizations can easily improve both security and employee experience is authentication. On top of that, they’re extremely unsecure.

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Modernizing Critical Infrastructure Requires Security Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

These smart infrastructures are envisioned to take full advantage of next-generation industrial automation technologies like IoT sensors and Robotics, Cloud, Digital Twins, 5G and SD-WAN while further integrating supply chains. A new security stack is required to address the functionality for securing this new infrastructure.

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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. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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