Security News
The new offerings extend the value of Masergy's Managed SD-WAN Secure solutions to the remote workforce, supporting their network connections with built-in security, dual-link redundancy, load balancing, and dynamic traffic steering capabilities. Businesses of all sizes use Masergy's SD-WAN to provide secure and reliable cloud application performance to office employees, and now their users at home or on the go have access to the same level of security and performance.
Windstream Enterprise has added new Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice command features to its SD-WAN solution, enabling network administrators to work more efficiently. WE already includes Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa integration in its award-winning OfficeSuite UC® solution.
For the third year SD-WAN adoption continues to grow with an ever-increasing interest in managed and co-managed offerings to navigate through the complexities of an integrated network and security solution, Masergy reveals. Converging the network and security into a single strategy is also important today, as is having a managed service provider for assistance.
Windstream Enterprise released a new security feature to protect businesses from increasingly sophisticated threats to their network and their data. Offered as part of its managed SD-WAN service, Windstream Enterprise's new Virtual Network Function Next-Generation Firewall gives businesses peace of mind that their networks are safe from attacks, out to the network edge, while also reducing the complexity associated with implementing a large-scale network security solution.
Cisco has released another batch of critical security updates for flaws in Cisco Data Center Network Manager and the Cisco SD-WAN Solution software. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is the network management platform for all NX-OS-enabled deployments, spanning new fabric architectures, IP Fabric for Media, and storage networking deployments for the Cisco Nexus-powered data center.
Barracuda announced a new secure SD-WAN service built natively on Microsoft Azure. The new Barracuda CloudGen WAN service is the first SD-WAN solution that runs inside Azure Virtual WAN Hubs.
The mandate to implement new public and private cloud networks, extend WAN connectivity to branch offices, support new IoT and privately-owned end-user devices, and develop aggressive application advancement strategies can often conflict directly with the need to secure the entire expanding network. Internal segmentation strategies-solutions that go well beyond simple VLANs-play a critical role in ensuring that agile connectivity strategies such as SD-WAN can be safely integrated into a traditional network.
They came from organizations of all sizes and across a broad range of sectors, in EMEA, APAC and the US. Secure SD-WAN fully integrated into public cloud is the solution of choice 23% of respondents have already deployed SD-WAN, with another 51% either in the process of deploying or expecting to deploy within the next 12 months. SD-WAN is being used by more than half of those who have added security to their public cloud.
In response to customers' needs, StarHub is now a one-stop service provider partner to enterprise customers seeking an innovative digital network management solution. Delivering the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN edge platform, StarHub offers an end-to-end smart solution to help customers gain centralised control and full visibility over their entire network operations across distributed locations.
"Small and midsize organizations without adequate security resources require the best of both worlds. With leading throughput levels, layered security services, zero-touch SD-WAN capabilities and many other benefits, our new line of tabletop security appliances provides just that." WatchGuard's new tabletop security appliances are built to provide the advanced throughput and improved HTTPS traffic processing today's organizations need to keep up with the ever-increasing velocity of business, along with a comprehensive set of security services.