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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. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. Convergence

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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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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

Operators can monitor and control machinery virtually. This includes employees with 5G powered phones or infrastructure, like IoT/OT devices or SD-WAN devices, with 5G connectivity for Branch WAN connectivity. This solution is built for businesses that use 5G connectivity within their enterprise.

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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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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. On April 22, Sophos published a knowledge base entry on the Sophos Community regarding the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. Background. Proof of concept.

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The Network Also Needs to be Observable, Part 2: Network Telemetry Sources

Kentik

To achieve observability in modern networks, it is key to gather the state of all of the networks your application traffic traverses — overlay and underlay, physical and virtual, as well as the ones you run and the ones you don’t. Traditional WAN : WAN access switches, integrated services routers, cloud access routers.

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Megaport Virtual Edge Upgrades Enable Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and More

Megaport

Two years following its launch, Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE) has evolved into a market-leading Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service – meaning you can host and deploy virtual instances of network technologies like SD-WAN gateways, virtual routers, and Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) in minutes without physical equipment.