Netify Market Guide to CASB Services What is CASB? A persistent theme in our market guide series to security services has been a significant change in enterprise plans for provisioning IT infrastructure and applications favoring cloud services over internally deployed and operated systems. The shift began as developers loved the convenience and executives appreciated the […]
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Our market guide series has included a mix of mature but retooled and new product categories but paradoxically, XDR is a blend of old wines in new bottles. First labeled only a few years ago by the CTO and co-founder Nir Zuk of Palo Alto Networks, according to the company, XDR results from the evolution
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Don’t be confused by false choices: It’s not SD WAN vs. SASE, but SD WAN and SASE. Many IT vendors are like the proverbial hardware store that only sells one kind of tool: when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Such vendors compulsively frame issues in ways that inevitably
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Introduction: SASE features and evaluation criteria The 2020 stampede to remote work has finally reversed into a slow migration of employees back to the office. However, IT’s reaction to the sudden dispersal of colleagues across hundreds of broadband connections and insecure home wireless networks fueled two technologies that will long outlast the pandemic. First, SD-WAN
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The spread of cloud services throughout the enterprise has long threatened traditional security designs based on a protected perimeter with hardware firewalls to control traffic flows. As organizations increasingly use cloud infrastructure (IaaS) to host custom applications and migrate commodified software from internal systems to SaaS products, securing clients, data, systems and applications has become
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For the second in our Netify series of security service market guides, we focus on zero-trust network access (ZTNA), which strengthens user and device authentication and authorization by replacing static passwords with a cryptographically strong session – or transaction-based model. ZTNA rests on a strong foundation of network – and packet-based security where firewalls —
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What are Secure Web Gateways? All firewalls filter content and the most advanced, like the Next Generation (NGFW) products we reviewed in our first market guide, go beyond basic IP and port ACLs and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to provide some degree of application layer (L7) protection. However, even the best firewalls are blunt instruments
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Security has become one of the core requirements of any technological solution as the ever evolving threat landscape has further exemplified the need for strict security requirements. This increasingly complex nature of security and the ever more global workforce has stretched most IT departments to their limits, which negatively impacts the overall security posture of
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