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A Practical History of the Firewall – Part 3: Performance Takes Center Stage

Firemon

As internet speeds increased and firewall adoption inside the enterprise increased, performance drove purchasing decisions. Enter Netscreen, the firewall appliance, and the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Netscreenintroduced the purpose-built firewall “appliance.” Cisco was selling the PIX in the 90s.

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AI, cybersecurity investments and identity take center stage at RSA 2024

CIO

It was truly a good use of time attending the 33rd RSA Conference in San Francisco, along with over 40,000 attendees, networking with the leading minds in the cybersecurity industry. RSA provided strategies and tools for security experts to help defend their networks, with over 600 exhibitors and countless sessions displaying plenty of both.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less. Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center.

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Digital Tool Estimates Software Firewall Credits for Your Environment

Palo Alto Networks

Flexible, agile and simple, credit-based licensing is the way to go for software firewalls in virtual and container form factors. Decide how to flexibly size and procure VM-Series virtual firewalls , CN-Series container firewalls , cloud-delivered Security Services and Virtual Panorama. Play Around with Potential.

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The AI continuum

CIO

AI’s broad applicability and the popularity of LLMs like ChatGPT have IT leaders asking: Which AI innovations can deliver business value to our organization without devouring my entire technology budget? Great for: Extracting meaning from unstructured data like network traffic, video & speech. Here is some guidance.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Hence, it’s important to protect the cloud and its various connections across various cloud environments, not just those that directly tie back to the on-premise network. It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. In fact, a few of the most common challenges include: Risk.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Over the past three or four years, the industry has been abuzz with the concept of delivering converged security and networking features via the cloud. Then came the pandemic, and an unprecedented number of new network edges and remote employees popped up overnight.

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