The significant momentum behind cloud adoption ignited by business imperatives and opportunities is apparent to industry leaders and organizations. Learn how proactive performance and security assessment can help with implementing cloud-first strategies. Cloud adoption underpins most of new emerging technology disruptions occurring due to its resiliency, flexibility, speed, and scalability. Shared or public cloud continues […]
Make sure your SASE and SD-WAN products work exactly as expected―in the lab and across the live network. Only through comprehensive testing can you validate Quality of Service in a multi-vendor, multi-domain environment, including the public cloud. Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) architectures are growing in popularity. And for […]
Speed and security requirements now go hand in hand. Can your tools and testbeds keep up? The pace of tech advancement has officially reached breakneck speeds. 5G, IoT, SD-WAN, SASE and 800 Gigabit Ethernet are just a few of the technologies ushering in not just new possibilities, but new demands. Standards bodies are racing to […]
Secure Access Secure Edge (SASE) represents an evolutionary step for SD-WAN vendors to enhance SD-WAN security in the multi-cloud environment. Learn why a comprehensive test and validation strategy is essential to manage SD-WAN security effectively. SD-WANs are commonly virtualized and rely heavily on the public Internet, along with a range of private WAN connections. Managing […]
By combining SASE and Zero Trust, you can consistently apply and enforce security performance policies across your entire network—and give consumers the security and performance they expect. Gartner coined the term “SASE” (Secure Access Service Edge) less than two years ago, before anyone had heard of “COVID-19.” At that time, Gartner described SASE as a […]
Turbulent – the word most people use to describe the last 12 months. The nicely protected corporate networks have been turned inside-out by the effects of the global pandemic. Unplanned, universal remote working has put every employee outside of the trusted network perimeter, including the IT team, creating a host of new challenges – and […]
While it’s clear that independent testing doesn’t always mean clear and fair results, there’s growing support around the NetSecOPEN security testing model. There is a lot at stake in the performance and security of network devices, and that is why testing has been always been carried out by independent, third-party organizations. But as we’ve all seen, […]
In the first half of 2020, IT teams around the globe rapidly responded to unprecedented change, threw the rule book out the window (in many cases), and found innovative and in some cases unorthodox ways to keep the business running while transitioning into some ill-defined “new normal”. This upheaval created opportunities that cybercriminals were eager […]
