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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Limited WAN Bandwidth. In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. – bg.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

Speed Deployment and Eliminate Infrastructure Burdens Cloud NGFW for Azure is a fully managed service that delivers its powerful capabilities without requiring customers to manage physical infrastructure or even virtual network appliances. Customers can deploy this Azure native ISV service in minutes, directly from the Azure Portal.

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Call for Papers — Ignite ‘21 Is Now Open

Palo Alto Networks

It will be a free-to-attend, virtual event, filled with the biggest experts in the industry, and you could be one of those experts! SDN Virtualized Infrastructure. Malware Analysis & Sandboxing. Ignite is already known for delivering the most up-to-date, technical content from the Palo Alto Networks platform. 5G Security.

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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

According to Sophos, they were able to identify “an attack against physical and virtual XG Firewall units” after reviewing the report of a “suspicious field value” in the XG Firewall’s management interface. The attack targets the XG Firewall administration interface, which is accessible via the user portal, over HTTPs, or on the WAN zone.

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The Importance of Network Security & Planning in Educational Institutions

Kentik

Whether it’s for a college, university or K-12 institution, networking and IT teams engaged in the management and monitoring of campus networks are facing some big challenges today: Maintaining very large, complex local wireless and fixed WAN networks that include access to research networks that span broad geographies. What is Needed?

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Today, convergence is happening with SASE, which converges cloud-delivered security and networking, as well as Secure SD-WAN, zero trust network access (ZTNA), network access control (NAC), secure access points, and secure switches. For example, 5G is now used in more situations, such as in factories and for drone operations.

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

Ivanti

Network segmentation minimizes the harm of malware and other threats by isolating it to a limited part of the network. Seven in 10 government employees now work virtually at least part of the time. And while zero trust isn't a product but a strategy, there are products that can help you implement a zero trust strategy.