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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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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. We even copied that perimeter defense strategy to our cloud environments by building virtual firewalls to control access to those applications. And it worked.

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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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Free 30-Day VM-Series Virtual Firewall Trial

Palo Alto Networks

Take the industry’s leading virtual firewall for a no-obligation spin in your virtualized environments. It’s never been easier, thanks to our 30-day free trial to test the VM-Series virtual firewalls for VMware ESXi and Linux KVM environments. It all starts with filling out this simple form for the virtual firewall trial.

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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. By embracing a zero-trust architecture with Zscaler, our customers can free up to 74% of an admin’s time to focus on more strategic projects.

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Radically simplify and expand Zero Trust to cloud workload

CIO

They often use a combination of: Cloud native security solutions offered by cloud service providers Multiple security tools (firewall, VPN, TLS/SSL inspection, DLP, etc.) It helps to enforce granular threat and data protection policies per individual user session and maintain consistent security policies across all environments.

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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.