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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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AI in the Enterprise: 5 key findings of AI usage and threat trends

CIO

Traditional security approaches reliant on firewalls and VPNs are woefully insufficient against the speed and sophistication of AI-powered threats. Zscalers zero trust architecture delivers Zero Trust Everywheresecuring user, workload, and IoT/OT communicationsinfused with comprehensive AI capabilities.

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Navigating Firewall Security Policy Challenges in Technology Organizations: How FireMon Simplifies Complexity

Firemon

Organizations in this field lead the charge in adopting cutting-edge architectures like hybrid clouds, microservices, and DevSecOps practices. However, these innovations also bring a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing firewall security policies.

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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.”

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Why “café-like branches” are the latest buzz among CIOs

CIO

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. The Foundation of the Caf-Like Branch: Zero-Trust Architecture At the heart of the caf-like branch is a technological evolution thats been years in the makingzero-trust security architecture.

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Why Proxy-Based Firewalls Are Not Enough

Palo Alto Networks

Proxy-based firewalls or web proxies have been considered an essential security component for some time now, but the question remains: Can proxies really help keep users safe? The first proxy-based firewalls achieved the basic task of controlling which websites users could access on the Internet. Implementation. Effectiveness.

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Technology Trends for 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Interest in Data Lake architectures rose 59%, while the much older Data Warehouse held steady, with a 0.3% In our skill taxonomy, Data Lake includes Data Lakehouse , a data storage architecture that combines features of data lakes and data warehouses.) Usage of material about Software Architecture rose 5.5%

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