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The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

CIO

New advances like SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are helping network professionals keep pace. Continuous authentication and authorization will be enforced for every user and device, regardless of location, minimizing the impact of compromised credentials. SD-WAN layered with AI has a role to play here.

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The importance of integrating security in planning and implementing SD-WAN

CIO

One area that merits attention is software-defined WAN or SD-WAN. Along with the rise of SD-WAN is the growing use of edge devices, which are now targeted by threat actors. SD-WAN entails using multiple connections, which results in more potential attack points for hackers.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

While the 5G standard includes strong security features, like user authentication, privacy, encryption and some protection for signaling traffic, these are not designed to detect or stop advanced threats in mobile traffic. And its definitely not enough to protect enterprise, government or industrial businesses.

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Today’s Enterprise WAN Isn’t What It Used To Be

Kentik

For most enterprise NetOps teams, a discussion about the WAN is a discussion about the cloud. The WAN was how we got access to some websites and sent emails. Why do we need to create site-to-site VPNs or some sort of modern SD-WAN topology connecting all our branches when almost all traffic goes to the public internet and the cloud?

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Talking Zero Trust and SASE with CISOs at the Summit

CIO

NAC works well and has evolved to provide a rich set of solutions that range from automated device discovery and fingerprinting, AAA and non-AAA authentication, automated guest onboarding, and end point posture assessment—with full integration into the broader security ecosystem. See you there. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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comdivision – Cloud expertise from design to deployment and management

CIO

Enabling a leading manufacturer to streamline global operations comdivision works with customers of all sizes, across multiple industries, delivering solutions that range from cloud infrastructure, management, and automation to digital workspaces, data center virtualization, software-defined networking (SD-WAN), and more.

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CVE-2021-1609: Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Cisco Small Business VPN Routers

Tenable

While both flaws exist due to improper validation of HTTP requests and can be exploited by sending specially crafted HTTP requests, CVE-2021-1610 can only be exploited by an authenticated attacker with root privileges. In January 2019, Cisco published advisories for two different vulnerabilities in its RV320 and RV325 WAN VPN routers.