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Cisco Secure Earns the Frost & Sullivan Global Market Leadership Award in the Network Firewall Market

Cisco Security

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. This award recognizes that Cisco achieved the greatest market share in the global firewall market due to outstanding performance, products, and service.

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Q&A: The lesser role VPNs now play for enterprises, SMBs — in a post-pandemic world

The Last Watchdog

VPNs encrypt data streams and protect endpoints from unauthorized access, essentially by requiring all network communications to flow over a secured pipe. This process was rapidly changing to cloud-based pre-pandemic, but COVID-19 kicked this transition into hyper speed with most of the world moving to work-from-home remote setups.

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Cisco Wins 2021 Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award

Cisco Security

Cisco is proud to be the only vendor recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the Best Practices Market Leadership Award for excellence in the network firewall market. This award recognizes that Cisco achieved the greatest market share in the global firewall market due to outstanding performance, products, and service.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing.

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Own Your Cloud Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to AWS “The customer assumes responsibility and management of the guest operating system (including updates and security patches), other associated application software as well as the configuration of the AWS provided security group firewall. Bring Your Own Key to the Cloud.

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Ready to move to the cloud? Here’s what you need to do when vetting service providers

SC Magazine

When I move to a new cloud vendor I always ask: how can we reduce our footprint? That could be by purging un-needed data, encryption, archiving, anonymizing data, basically doing something different,” Halota said. With the cloud, there are many opportunities that weren’t available to us before.”.

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

Sure, you need state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology like firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection systems to keep cybercriminals on the back foot. And when strong passwords and MFA let you down, encryption can keep sensitive data from being accessed by cybercriminals. The law of large numbers favors the bad guys.