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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO

SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud. Organizations must also ensure their data is protected and compliant.

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

CIO

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. But SD-WAN created a new problem: security.

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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. Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are.

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Talking Zero Trust and SASE with CISOs at the Summit

CIO

It started with the “Starbucks problem” where employees, partners, and customers could access corporate resources completely outside of the corporate network. SSE is a great complement to SD-WAN , and jointly they create SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). See you there. By John Watts, Nat Smith, Jonathan Forest, May 2023.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO

CIOs are challenged with securing an ever-more cloud-reliant, distributed, data-driven, and bandwidth-consuming enterprise with largely the same resources at their disposal. SASE is SD-WAN-as-a-service and security-as-a-service. Let’s look at each: Software-defined wide area networking. To learn more visit [link].

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5 Zero Trust and SASE trends for CISOs to watch

CIO

Instead, leaders have learned they can deploy network access control (NAC) solutions that leverage network capabilities to restrict access to resources based on mission or business need—fulfilling and proving compliance for many of the least-privilege access requirements of Zero Trust frameworks with a single solution. See you there.

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