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Securing the ever-evolving hybrid work environment

CIO

The WAN architecture must cater to the needs of office and remote workers with parity in terms of routing policies, security profile, and management of the WAN.” . Learn more about evolving security frameworks in the on-demand webinar from Comcast Business: “Beyond the Buzzwords – Networks and Security Converge”.

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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. Networking

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Prisma SD-WAN Integrates With Google Cloud to Simplify Multicloud

Palo Alto Networks

As a result, traditional wide area network (WAN) architectures have become a major bottleneck as they fail to enable direct access to cloud applications. Multicloud and SD-WAN. Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN is the industry’s first next-generation SD-WAN solution that provides an ROI of up to 243%.

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How IT Device Discovery Can Identify Your Network's Assets and Vulnerabilities

Ivanti

Network connections such as LANs (Local Area Networks) or WANs (Wide Area Networks). This also allows for more accurate and timely monitoring of changes in your network's architecture, which are critical in identifying potential weaknesses before exploitation can occur. Software components such as operating systems and applications.

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

Ivanti

And while zero trust isn't a product but a strategy, there are products that can help you implement a zero trust strategy. As with all things cybersecurity, there’s no time for standing still. Attack surfaces require constant monitoring.

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Making Network Performance Monitoring Relevant for Cloud and Digital Operations

Kentik

This post is based on a webinar presented by Jim Frey, VP Strategic Alliances at Kentik, on Network Performance Management for cloud and digital operations. NPM Architectures. There are different types of NPM tool architectures. Most tools do not have a big data architecture. Three NPM challenges. Learn More.

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Getting a business grip on security frameworks

CIO

According to Gartner, which coined the term, SASE combines network security with WAN capabilities , and can encompass multiple components such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, cloud access security broker functions, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) in a cloud-native delivery model. Network Security

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