Monthly Archives: April 2022

The network and security landscape has changed dramatically. Users are dispersed, organizations are embracing multi-cloud, and applications are everywhere. These changes, which can lead to gaps in your security, pave the way for a new model, the secure access service edge (SASE). SASE converges security and networking capabilities in the cloud to provide seamless, secure access to applications spanning any device, location, and user.

Today’s IT teams face a common challenge: how to securely enable the growing universe of roaming users, devices, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps without adding complexity or reducing end-user performance – all while leveraging their existing security investments. Likewise, users in remote and branch offices need the same level of network performance and security protection as users in central locations. IT must develop strategies to protect users – wherever they work and on any device they use – from a variety of threats, including malware infections, command-and-control callbacks, phishing attacks, denial-of-service attacks, unauthorized access, and unacceptable use, among others. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the complexity — but we’re here to help!

This book examines the changing network and security landscape, gaps in the existing security stack, and the steps you can take to keep your organization safe and secure as your network evolves. We’ll share how these changes are paving the way to a new solution category: the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), which delivers multiple security functions from the cloud.

In five short chapters, you’ll learn:

• Key networking and security trends and their associated challenges, along with different networking and security options to solve them
• How an SD-WAN architecture addresses modern networking challenges
• How a multi-function cloud-native security service complements SD-WAN and addresses modern security challenges

By the end, you’ll understand the newest trends in networking and security, know the toughest challenges that these changes bring, and how to set up your business for success today in the future.

DNS presents security and risk management leaders with some excellent opportunities to anticipate, prevent, detect and respond to prevailing threats. Organizations should implement DNS security to protect users, devices and other critical infrastructure.

“Threats and exploits can’t get through, and Umbrella gives us confidence because we know that our users are protected when they’re surfing the internet on or off the network.”

-Adam Kinsella, Product Owner for Network, Network Security, Qantas

The workplace has evolved, introducing a new and complex set of IT security, compliance, data protection, and regulations challenges. To keep your team and organization protected, you need a way to simplify your stack, while evolving it to meet today’s needs and your unique challenges. Cisco Umbrella unifies secure web gateway, cloud-delivered firewall, DNS-layer security, and cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions into a single, easily deployed, cloud-based service. In this ebook we discuss how Umbrella provides effective threat protection across a variety of use cases.

This Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) brief looks at some of the key trends and events that will shape network security technologies, suppliers, and customers in 2021.

ESG senior analyst John Grady dives into his predictions for this year, anticipating what 2021 has in store for us based on what occurred in 2020. “…If the last year has taught us anything it is that while we cannot always predict the future, being prepared for the unexpected is critical.”

In this brief, expect to learn about:

• The future of remote work and zero trust access
• A billion-dollar SASE acquisition
• A projection for the appliance market
• Inspection without decryption
• Runtime application security
• API protection and WAAP
• Automation
• …And more.

Download now.

As organizations work to migrate to the cloud — and work moves away from the data center towards the edges of the network — exposure to threats continues to rise. To protect against these growing risks— while optimizing performance at every connection — networking and security can no longer work in silos. Instead, they must work together in tandem to connect and protect users at the edge, securely and efficiently. This is where SASE enters the picture. Recently introduced by Gartner, SASE — or Secure Access Secure Edge — is a forward-thinking framework in which networking and security functions converge into a single integrated service that works at the cloud edge to deliver protection and performance in one simplified approach.