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Includes new SD-WAN appliance with integrated 5G to accelerate branch transformation and Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) to deliver exceptional user experiences SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) today introduced Prisma® SASE, bringing together Prisma Access and Prisma SD-WAN into an integrated cloud-delivered service with industry-leading network security and next-generation SD-WAN to ensure that organizations stay secure and productive while working fluidly between branch offices and home offices, and…

The Need for Intelligence  In today’s age of mass digital transformation, it’s not always the strongest, or largest businesses that survive and thrive. It’s often the ones who can adapt the quickest to the change in markets.  If you were running a bricks-and-mortar only store pre-COVID, when lock-down hit, you needed to either adopt technology very quickly, or risk obsolescence. It didn’t matter if you were large and established or not. Not even your most loyal customers could wait for you, they had to go elsewhere.  This is happening in every industry and even goes beyond COVID. Agility and speed are…

Designed to combat zero-day flaws exploited in Apple’s operating systems, the patch applies to the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Image: Apple Apple has pushed out an update for most of its major products to protect them from a strain of spyware that has already targeted a number of people. On Tuesday, the company rolled out the emergency patch to squash a bug that impacted the iMessage app built into iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and…

Global financial services firms spent more than $2m on average recovering from a ransomware attack last year, according to new data from Sophos. The UK security vendor polled 550 IT decision-makers in mid-sized financial sector firms around the globe to compile its State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2021 report. It found that a third (34%) of firms in the vertical were hit by ransomware in 2020, with half (51%) admitting their attackers managed to encrypt data. However,…

Nearly half (46%) of the world’s on-premises databases contain known vulnerabilities — most of which are high or critical severity, according to a new five-year study from Imperva. The security vendor scanned 27,000 databases globally over five years and discovered that they contained 26 vulnerabilities each on average. Some 56% of these were ranked in the top two severity categories, meaning they could lead to serious compromise if exploited. Some CVEs have not been addressed for several years,…

The past few years have been tumultuous—professionally and personally, for most of us. Life in IT is never dull, and there’s always something new to learn. What’s interesting to you right now? Explore some of the VMworld 2021 sessions designed to help you take a step back and consider how you’d like to make an impact going forward—in life and at work.   How to Master Engagement with Your Audience in a Remote World Keeping your audience engaged virtually is a skill that you didn’t realize you needed—until 100%…