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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. Organizations must also ensure their data is protected and compliant.

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Best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). This approach simplifies deployment and ensures that security policies are applied across the entire environment.

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Make SASE your cybersecurity armor – but don’t go it alone

CIO

In short, SASE brings together software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services such as cloud access security broker, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access. Increasingly, organizations are turning to secure access service edge (SASE) as their armor of choice against cyberattacks. The solution?

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8 best practices for building a single-vendor SASE solution

CIO

Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG). This approach simplifies deployment and ensures that security policies are applied across the entire environment.

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Rapid Digital Transformation Requires Rethinking of Security Frameworks

CIO

In many hybrid scenarios, workers are moving between secure office environments with enterprise network monitoring, firewalls, event and data analytics to vulnerable home networks that may have rogue devices, weak passwords or outdated equipment. For this reason, the zero trust approach must be considered.

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The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

Kentik

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. For example, a cloud engineer may be a novice in how encapsulation technologies work.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO

These IT pros typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science and should be knowledgeable in LAN/WAN protocol, software, and hardware. This position involves a lot of time spent troubleshooting, and network and computer systems administrators typically need to be on call in case of an emergency or failure.

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