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Six Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Implementing a Zero Trust Model

By Shawn Murphy | Mar 04, 2025

Zero Trust is more than just a cybersecurity buzzword, it is an essential security model for enterprises looking to safeguard their networks, data, and critical systems. With cyber threats becoming more persistent and sophisticated, traditional security approaches that rely on perimeter defenses are no longer sufficient. The Zero Trust model shifts the focus from implicit trust to continuous verification, ensuring that users, devices, and applications are authenticated and authorized before accessing resources.

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Zero-Day Malware Prevention: A Critical Need for Modern Security

By Terry Dever | Dec 19, 2024

When detecting and responding to malware and advanced cyber attacks, time to prevention is key. Seconds versus minutes can be the difference between an easily closed case and a large scale breach. That's why the rise of zero-day malware poses one of the greatest challenges in your cybersecurity environment.

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SASE: What is it? Why is it Needed?

By Terry Dever | Sep 24, 2024

Today, enterprise networking and security face a growing challenge stemming from an ever-expanding attack surface and company perimeter (every user and every application is a company perimeter). The front line is everywhere! With the majority of employees working off site, and the majority your enterprise data is off site in the cloud/in SaaS applications etc., each of these factors produce data leaks, resulting in a “perfect storm” for data security.

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Strengthen Security And Networking: Five Reasons To Invest In SASE For Hybrid Work

By Josh Cronin | Jan 02, 2024

To stay updated in the evolving IT environment, organizations are consistently navigating multi-cloud transitions and embracing hybrid work models. The increasing dispersion of users and applications across platforms heightens the difficulty of ensuring a functioning, resilient, and consistent user experience.

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Step Into The Future Of Secure: Hybrid Networking With Cisco SASE

By Josh Cronin | Dec 05, 2023

In today’s evolving digital landscape, businesses are finding a reliable ally in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to safeguard their networks and endpoints. Imagine it as a musical conductor, skillfully bringing together different players in a complex orchestra of networking and security.

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Boost Security And Performance with Juniper Networks’ Session Smart Router

By Patrick Gamble | Nov 12, 2023

Just as you rely on business-critical applications every day in the workplace, those same applications rely on a network that is available, scalable, and secure. But if an enterprise’s network architecture falls on the traditional side, this can complicate matters with the utilization of middleboxes like firewalls, load balancers, and tunnels for packet forwarding. This complexity comes with a high cost, hindering the deployment of new applications and creating challenges for intensive workloads like supporting video or connecting a widespread mobile workforce.

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SASE: The Solution To Building A Secure And Future-Ready Hybrid Workforce

By Josh Cronin | Jul 18, 2023

The era of digital transformation has completely changed the way we work, with remote work and cloud-based applications becoming the new normal. No longer are users and applications confined to physical data centers in office spaces. This traditional setup has given way to a new landscape of hybrid workforces, home offices, and geographically-dispersed headquarters. While these changes have improved digital flexibility, they have also brought new and obvious challenges to network security.

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Meaningful Cybersecurity Requires ZTNA, Not VPN

By Michael Thweatt | May 26, 2022

Our review of 2021 IT trends reported that Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) was not only a common feature for enterprise IT teams, but that it will be sticking around for the near future, too. Much of this is attributed to shifting remote work architectures, which have made traditional perimeter security architectures essentially outdated. As organizations move away from a full-on remote workforce and into more of a hybrid model, ZTNA features remain just as important.

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The Future Of Enterprise Cybersecurity: Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA)

By Michael Thweatt | Feb 15, 2022

As enterprises look into the future of a post-pandemic environment, many CIOs recognize the need for a better strategy that supports a remote and hybrid workforce. While many switched to a work-from-home model as a response to the pandemic, more than 50% of employees want to continue working from home permanently.

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A Year in Review: IT Trends 2021

By David Fafel | Jan 06, 2022

As another year has concluded, we have reached that time to review the IT trends of 2021. Most IT professionals could use an extra minute to catch their breath as last year continued to push many IT departments due to the pandemic's outbreak in 2020. To gain some perspective on our year-long journey, we sat down with two senior executives at WEI, David Fafel, and Greg Labrie, to get their perspectives on the relevant IT trends that came about in 2021. We also pulled data from a commissioned study we did in partnership with IDG concerning the state of digital transformation in 2021. The study involved an audience of IT decision makers (ITDMs) across multiple industries that provided insightful and surprising information concerning their IT initiatives in 2021.

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