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The 4 Key Considerations for Extending Your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to Home and Remote Workers

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Most wont be connecting occasionally to check email or do some quick catchup at the airport, between meetings or after hours at the hotel. Once the VPN on our primary firewall rebooted. Many newer users also find themselves struggling with unfamiliar VPN client software, passwords, and connections to multiple cloud services.

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Where Do I Plug It? the dissolving perimeter and the insertion dillema

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This was the way firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, email security gateways, data loss prevention and other security systems were implemented. An early approach was to use VPN connections into the enterprise. When deploying a security, it was naturally placed at the entry or exit point of the network.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

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SASE merges the network optimization capabilities of SD-WAN with a full security stack, including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more. Traffic sent over the VPN acts as if the remote device is directly connected to the network with full access to corporate resources.

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How to Prepare for Long-term Remote Work, Post-Pandemic

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Remote Workers Need Network Access Comparable to In-Office Workers To accommodate the sudden surge of home-based workers, network managers might have ordered a slew of new VPN licenses, and maybe even a larger firewall or VPN appliance, to connect people to the corporate network.

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The Path of a Packet in Cato’s SASE Architecture

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Latency sensitive applications, such as voice, can beprioritized overother applications, such as email. Current services include a next-gen firewall/VPN, Secure Web Gateway, Advanced Threat Prevention, Cloud and Mobile Access Protection, and a Managed Threat Detection and Response (MDR) service.

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What is Network-as-a-Service and Why WAN Transformation Needs NaaS and SASE

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NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. I see NaaS as a way to describe agile, programmable backbones and interconnections in a hybrid, multi-cloud architecture, wrote Shamus McGillicuddy , vice president of network management research at Enterprise Management Associates in an email.

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WAN Architecture Webinar: How Will You Transform Your WAN in 2018?

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This way I was able to send him an email to hold off on movie time during company time. Now we can use a socket, a VPN tunnel, or the mobile client, depending on location and user requirements. We found that Netflix was being streamed across the network during company hours, says George McNeill, director of I.T.

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