Network engineering and operations leaders are looking to software-defined wide- area networks (SD-WAN) to support the influx of traffic and applications driven by digital transformation (DX). These applications improve staff productivity while creating new business opportunities, but they also reshape corporate networking and security needs.

In response, many organizations are beginning to rethink their traditional WAN architecture. SD WAN has emerged as a replacement, but many SD-WAN implementations also present serious challenges—from ina ...

Most organizations are in the midst of some form of digital innovation (DI) - leveraging technology to achieve specific goals—and ultimately deliver greater value to their customers. But DI also brings disruption. Disruption in the form of an expanded attack surface and the introduction of a more sophisticated threat landscape. Disruption can also lead to increased complexity as organizations try to counter these new threats with a range of new security solutions. Finally, maintaining compliance with relevant industy and regulatory standards su ...

In any organization, being responsible for cybersecurity is a complex job entailing interactions with the teams managing software development, servers, databases, storage, and networking. It becomes even more challenging where there is also a need to protect industrial installations and the Operational Technology (OT) that runs them in critical industries such as manufacturing, energy, and extraction.

Although it is not always on the OT security team’s radar, in the IT networking world Software Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN, is the ho ...

Although the acronym sounds techie, its effects go far beyond the Network Operations Center. Software Defined Wide Area Network or SD-WAN is an acronym that even top executives are familiar with because it can open avenues to take digital innovation to the next level. Unfortunately, it also gives cyber attackers new routes to your valuable IT systems. To avoid turning a promising idea into a data breach, here are 7 steps your organization needs to take. ...

Cloud computing has transformed how we consume and deploy IT solutions. Compute power is rapidly evolving to a utility model, with shared infrastructure at its core. This shared infrastructure underpinning the cloud revolution has also driven a fundamental shift in how we design and deploy technology within the data center. Servers, storage, networks, even the data center itself has moved beyond physical limits to become virtualized services residing on physical hardware. With this new virtual shared infrastructure model, comes new risks.

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