Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs) enhance cloud application security with features like visibility, data protection, threat mitigation and compliance. The Network Union 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 […]
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XDR services unify threat detection, response and analytics to improve security operations, offering automated responses, simplified management and integration across varied environments. 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
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SD-WAN and SASE are complementary – SD-WAN handles network access and performance, whilst SASE adds more advanced security features. 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
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SASE combines SD-WAN with security features such as NGFW, SWG, CSAB and ZTNA. 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
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FWaaS combines next generation firewall features with cloud scalability. 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
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ZTNA is a security feature that replaces implicit trust and requires continuous verification in order to gain access to networked systems. For the second in The Network Union’s series of security service market guides, we focus on zero-trust network access (ZTNA), which strengthens user and device authentication and authorisation by replacing static passwords with a
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SWG enhance content filtering precision, forming a key component of SASE frameworks. 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
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The top 10 Managed Security Service Providers are: Alert Logic Cato Networks Masergy Lumen Trustwave Verizon Palo Alto Cisco FireEye Open Systems 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
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