Cyberattacks are on the rise, and the costs and impacts of ransomware, data breaches, and other cyberattack campaigns continue to grow. The combination of growing cybersecurity risk and expanding regulatory requirements makes it vital for financial services organizations to implement security strategies that effectively protect their systems and the data entrusted to them against modern […]

Without diving deep into the technicalities just yet, Cisco’s Umbrella solution provides customers with a first line of defence against threats on the internet. All traffic is first sent through Umbrella, which acts as a secure on-ramp to the Internet for users wherever they are located.

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

What is the Gartner SASE security model? SASE is a concept brought to the market by Gartner. It represents the convergence of networking and security by combining CASB, DNS protection, Firewall-as-a-services, SD WAN and ZTNA delivered via cloud service infrastructure. The SASE framework (Secure Access Service Edge) model became known to the IT community via a

Why adopt SD WAN & SASE? A SASE solution combines WAN services with a range of security functions which include Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Businesses are facing a considerable challenge to decrease network complexity and cost at the same

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

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 —

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