Financial Services face threats such as ransomware, data breaches and vulnerabilities from remote workforces. Solutions include access management, endpoint security, SD-WAN, FWaaS and compliance tools. 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 […]

Professional: Offers basic DNS-layer Security Insight: Adds advanced enforcement, URL blocking, file inspection and improved visibility. 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

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

The Gartner SASE combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security (CASB, SWG, FWaaS and ZTNA). 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

SD-WAN with SASE helps simplify network management, security and agility through cloud-first architectures – enabling remote workforces. 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

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

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

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