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Web Application Firewalls Aren’t Protecting Cloud-Native Apps

DevOps.com

Your web application firewall (WAF) is humming at the edges of your network, faithfully blocking malicious attacks before they can do any harm. It consists of signatures, rules, and a sprinkle of machine learning to protect your applications (and user data) from harm. Better yet, it’s a next-generation WAF (NG-WAF).

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Zero Trust everywhere: How MGM Resorts found agility and security with Zscaler

CIO

Thats why, when I started Zscaler, the goal wasnt to build a better firewall it was to remove the network from the security equation entirely. True zero trust means no implicit trust, no network to get on, only direct, policy-based connections between users, devices, and applications.

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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

The technology also facilitates network slicing, which allows organisations to create wireless virtual networks for specific applications or departments. With 5G, the OT network is encrypted end-to-end, which enables completely secure communication between devices and systems.

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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. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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IT leaders see big business potential in small AI models

CIO

Small language models (SLMs) are giving CIOs greater opportunities to develop specialized, business-specific AI applications that are less expensive to run than those reliant on general-purpose large language models (LLMs). Tuned, open-source small language models run behind firewalls solve many of the security, governance, and cost concerns.

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How MCP can revolutionize the way DevOps teams use AI

CIO

Much of it centers on performing actions, like modifying cloud service configurations, deploying applications or merging log files, to name just a handful of examples. But with MCP, developers can write applications that integrate AI into a variety of other types of workflows. But not all DevOps work involves generating things.

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How to Develop IoT Applications: A Complete Guide for 2022

The Crazy Programmer

People create IoT applications; people use IoT applications—the world’s technology grows from the internet to the Internet of Things, from middlemen transaction processes to Smart Contracts. How do you develop IoT applications ? Determine if you want a native app or a hybrid IoT application.

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