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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. And in a recent World Economic Forum survey, 91% of global leaders agree that a cybercrime-related catastrophe is coming. And NGFWs aren’t done evolving.

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

Ivanti

Once again, borrowing from the NIST glossary, network segmentation is defined as follows: Splitting a network into sub-networks, for example, by creating separate areas on the network which are protected by firewalls configured to reject unnecessary traffic.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

TechCrunch

A December 2021 survey by CSO found that 44% of security leaders at large companies expected their budgets to increase in the upcoming 12 months. Through partnerships with service providers, Versa connects users to apps in the cloud or data centers with security layered on top — like data loss prevention tools and gateway firewalls.

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