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Enhancing Private 5G Security in industrial deployments

CIO

OT can be at the heart of critical infrastructure, meaning disruption could cause major problems and even endanger people. Additionally, 5G promises to accelerate IT-OT convergence and thereby help improve efficiency, enhance decision making, and drive new revenue streams. Yet with this progress comes new opportunities for hackers.

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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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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO

Orsini notes that it has never been more important for enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT infrastructure. It’s another way that Orsini believes a VMware-based infrastructure supports success in the cloud. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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Nikesh Arora on Mad Money

Palo Alto Networks

The Rise of Platformization and the Renaissance of Firewall Both new and legacy security solutions are charging the way for this quarter’s success. While platformization is the wave of the future, firewalls are part of the steam that drives that engine forward. Arora emphasized the importance of platformization in the industry.

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

Firemon

However, these innovations also bring a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing firewall security policies. Whether launching new products, deploying updates, or scaling infrastructure to support growing user bases, the pace of change is relentless.

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Palo Alto Networks Helps Secure Black Hat Asia 2025

Palo Alto Networks

Black Hat deploys its own bespoke network and infrastructure per event, instead of using the venues infrastructure. Our PA-5430 NGFWs will be deployed in high availability, protecting Black Hat owned systems and internal infrastructure. This allows the NOC/SOC to have full visibility into the network.

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Just Released and Ready for Download — Software Firewalls for Dummies

Palo Alto Networks

If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “ Software Firewalls for Dummies.”

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