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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. 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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Is Your Browser Ground Zero for Cyberattacks?

Palo Alto Networks

It integrates technologies like SD-WAN, cloud access security brokers (CASB), secure web gateways (SWG), Zero Trust network access (ZTNA), and firewall as a service (FWaaS). SASE delivers secure, seamless access to applications and data, regardless of user location, enabling efficient and scalable hybrid work and cloud adoption.

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Getting a business grip on security frameworks

CIO

According to Gartner, which coined the term, SASE combines network security with WAN capabilities , and can encompass multiple components such as SD-WAN, secure web gateways, cloud access security broker functions, firewall as a service, and zero trust network access (ZTNA) in a cloud-native delivery model.

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Making sense of zero trust – why a managed SASE solution is the ideal option for enterprises

CIO

SASE is a framework that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and network security services like Cloud Access Security Brokers, Firewall-as-a-service, and Zero Trust into a single, cloud-delivered service model.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO

It requires a strong ability for complex project management and to juggle design requirements while ensuring the final product is scalable, maintainable, and efficient. These IT pros typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science and should be knowledgeable in LAN/WAN protocol, software, and hardware.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

Our customers are excited about the cloud for the agility, flexibility and scalability it provides. Our managed firewall service even integrates with Azure Virtual WAN deployments, so customers can protect traffic across their entire networks. Every day this technology blocks nearly 5 billion events, analyzes 3.5

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