Displaying items by tag: Firewall

COMPANY NEWS:  The New CloudGuardWAF-as-a-Service offers a fully managed, scalable solution empowering businesses to navigate the digital world with confidence and resilience

With almost one in every two firewalls being a Fortinet product, the company knows what the bad guys are up to, and has a serious mission to keep them out.

COMPANY NEWS Illumio Inc., a Zero Trust Segmentation company, today announced it has become a member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP) who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft security technology to build a better defense against a world of increasing cybersecurity threats.

COMPANY NEWS:  WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified security, today announced that it has appointed Kyocera Australia as a second Platinum Partner in Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS:  Check Point demonstrated a block rate of 99.8% on new malware, a flawless 100% phishing prevention rate, and an industry-leading lowest False Positive Detection rate of 0.13%

GUEST RESEARCH: Once used primarily by search engines, bots now have a variety of uses — both good and bad. The good bots are primarily search engine crawlers and other similar bots used for aggregating or monitoring content. These bots obey the website owner’s rules as specified in the robots.txt file, publish methods of validating them as who they say they are, and work in a way to avoid overwhelming the websites and applications they visit.

GUEST OPINION: Skilled cybersecurity talent is in tight supply. It's challenging to recruit, hire and retain skilled professionals: trends that are expected to continue into the near future.

The greatest threat to network security isn’t malware or other external threats, says Aruba chief product and technology officer David Hughes. “There’s a strong argument that it’s treating networking and security as two separate silos.”

COMPANY NEWS : McAfee Corp is a global leader in online protection, today announced McAfee Business Protection, a new comprehensive security solution for small business owners in collaboration with Dell Technologies. McAfee Business Protection helps Dell small business customers stay ahead of cyber threats and vulnerabilities with award-winning security, identity and dark web data monitoring, VPN, web protection for safe browsing and more.  

Demand for firewall solutions drove the total firewall market to surge 14% YoY and worth approximately US$3 billion ($4.6 billion) in quarterly revenue in 2Q22—which would have been higher had hardware appliance vendors kept pace with demand, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Communications solutions provider for operators iBASIS integrates the multi-protocol signalling firewall of telecom jtendo to its managed cloud-based security portfolio, iBASIS Security iQ360.

Demand for network security—email security, firewall, security service edge, secure web gateway, and web application firewall technologies—is expected to remain strong and will exceed at US$150 billion ($210 billion) over the next five years as solid enterprise investment in cloud applications and hybrid work drive the need for greater security and offset macro-economic headwinds, forecasts market firm Dell’Oro Group.

American security company WatchGuard has been accused of withholding full details of a remotely exploitable vulnerability in its firewall devices until news broke that the flaw was being exploited by attackers from Russia's military to assemble a botnet, according to a report in the American website Ars Technica.

F5 announced this week a major expansion of its application security and delivery portfolio with F5 distributed cloud services, a new SaaS platform providing multi-cloud networking and edge-based computing solutions. F5 is also launching the first new service on the platform, Web application and API protection, integrating multiple security capabilities into a unified offering.

D-Link's Nuclias Cloud-Managed DBG-2000 SD-WAN Security Gateway completes the end-to-end capability of the Nuclias range by adding centralised control over network and Internet traffic.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Juniper's quest to uncover exceptionally advanced, AI-powered wired and Wi-Fi connectivity is reaping rich rewards for enterprises, universities and organisations, with Dartmouth College an excellent example, as Juniper is set to speak at QUESTnet 2021 at QUT, Nov 29 to Dec 1.

Aruba, a division of HPE, is bringing networking fabric as a platform to the data centre near you with the world’s first distributed services switch. What this means is big savings, greater agility, superior networking, and more.

Imagine you just bought a brand new car featuring all the latest bells and whistles. You're itching to take advantage of speed camera detection and try out the heated seat backs and armrests. Unfortunately, when you try to turn your car on, nothing happens. If the vehicle doesn't work, then what's the point of having it and all its exciting features?

GUEST OPINION by Yaniv Hoffman, Radware: With cloud-based applications come new security risks that require expertise which is typically scarce and that can delay application deployment and maintenance.