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Bringing the data processing unit (DPU) revolution to your data center

CIO

The data processing unit, or DPU, is a new class of programmable processor that enables servers to more efficiently move data, freeing up valuable CPU cycles and allowing services to be statefully embedded in the data center network. For example, you might buy a SmartNIC to offload encryption and decryption in a server.

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6 Reasons Our Firewall Platform is Critical for Zero Trust Across Workloads

Palo Alto Networks

A Zero Trust approach of “never trust, always verify” is most effective when it spans all the locations and environments where workloads power and run your applications and data. With this constantly growing interconnectivity in mind, let’s look at the six reasons why our firewalls help ensure a Zero Trust approach at the workload level.

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How to Protect Your Azure App with a Web Application Firewall

Modus Create

To start with, we will investigate how we can stand up Web Applications Firewall (WAF) services via Terraform. Using Web Application Firewall to Protect Your Azure Applications. A Web Application Firewall or WAF helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a client and service.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

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. Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less.

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Increase customer protection with edge security

CIO

Latest cybersecurity threats expose flaws in traditional security methods Let’s consider two methods of security for customer data: firewalls and cloud storage. Firewalls are not well suited to protect against modern threats. According to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report , 45% of data breaches occurred in the cloud.

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Intelligent Traffic Offload Uses SmartNIC/DPU for Hyperscale Security

Palo Alto Networks

Hyperscale data centers have particular needs when it comes to storage, networking and security. Cloud-scale enterprises and telcos have found that a key strategy for allowing clouds and 5G to scale has been taking advantage of smart network interface (SmartNIC) and data processing units (DPUs) to offload networking functions.

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The Role of SD-WAN in Securing the Expanding Network Perimeter

CIO

Traditional security models were designed to support a walled castle approach where all of a company’s data, applications, and users operate behind a firewall at a centralized headquarters or data center. The basic firewall functionality may not be enough to help protect enterprise networks.

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