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Extreme Networks Announces New Products Including SD-WAN And Digital Twins Of Switches, APs

Extreme Networks is rolling out several new products during its Extreme Connect live event, including an SD-WAN product, a new digital twin capability for its switches and APs, and a new switch. First is the availability of an Extreme-branded SD-WAN product, Extreme Cloud SD-WAN. The product comes from Extreme’s $73 million purchase of Ipanema Technologies […]

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Extreme announces high-end Universal Switch, SD-WAN service

Extreme Networks has extended its Universal Switch family and added an SD-WAN subscription package to provide more flexible enterprise networking options.At the Extreme Connect user conference the company added a new top-end switch—the 5720—to its Universal Switch familty, a wired or wireless switch that can be managed from the ExtremeCloud IQ (XIQ) cloud-based console. XIQ offers a variety of wired and wireless management, analytics, location tracking, security and IoT support. It supports cloud providers including AWS, GCP, and Azure.As with other Universal Switches, the 5720, which ships in July, lets customers pick and choose wired or wireless where they need it, or upgrade software to both new and legacy equipment, said Nabil Bukhari, chief product officer and chief technology officer of Extreme Networks. The universal hardware products can be deployed across a  wired or wireless edge, aggregation, and wiring-closet environments.To read this article in full, please click here

What’s new in Calico Enterprise 3.14: WAF, Calico CNI on AKS, and support for RKE2

At Tigera, we strive to innovate at every opportunity thrown at us and deliver what you need! We have listened to what users ask and today we are excited to announce the early preview of Calico Enterprise 3.14. From new capabilities to product supportability and extending partnerships with our trusted partners, let’s take a look at some of the new features in this release.

Web application firewall (WAF)

Web applications are a critical aspect of any business, whether they are public facing or internal. There has been a fundamental shift in the way these applications are developed—as they have become more container-based and API-based, we refer to these as cloud-native applications.

To keep these modern web applications secure, we need to analyze all HTTP communication and block any malicious traffic traversing the web application. However, in a cloud-native environment, we can’t achieve this using simple network policies or by using perimeter network firewalls. Instead, a cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) would be necessary.


Fig. 1: Service annotation for workload-based WAF using Calico

This is why we have introduced a cloud-native WAF into Calico Enterprise that’s different from the traditional WAFs you may know. While most traditional WAFs are deployed Continue reading

HS025 Did You Know Your IT is a Crime Scene ?

Does planning for cybersecurity failure include the concept of 'crime scene' ? Can you provide evidence to an external investigation sufficient to get justice or simply prove to insurance investigator that you met the policy requirements ? Should you be lobbying governments ? How does this drive your cyber spending - defense, microsegmentation, detection or evidence collection ?

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HS025 Did You Know Your IT is a Crime Scene ?

Does planning for cybersecurity failure include the concept of 'crime scene' ? Can you provide evidence to an external investigation sufficient to get justice or simply prove to insurance investigator that you met the policy requirements ? Should you be lobbying governments ? How does this drive your cyber spending - defense, microsegmentation, detection or evidence collection ?

Let’s celebrate the 8th anniversary of Project Galileo!

Let’s celebrate the 8th anniversary of Project Galileo!

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Let’s celebrate the 8th anniversary of Project Galileo!

We started Project Galileo in 2014 with the simple idea that organizations that work in vulnerable yet essential areas of human rights and democracy building should not be taken down because of cyber attacks. In the past eight years, this idea has grown to more than just keeping them secure from a DDoS attack, but also how to foster collaboration with civil society to offer more tools and support to these groups. In March 2022, after the war in Ukraine started, we saw an increase in applications to Project Galileo by 177%.

Read ahead for details on all of our eighth anniversary announcements:

  • Two new civil society partners helping choose participants
  • New insights on attack patterns using data from Cloudflare Radar
  • A portal designed to ease onboarding for Galileo participants
  • Details on our sessions at RightsCon this week
  • New case studies highlighting Galileo participants and the important work they are doing

Announcing two new Project Galileo partners

This year, we are excited to welcome two new partners, International Media Support and CyberPeace Institute. As we introduce new partners, we are able to expand the project Continue reading

MLAG Deep Dive: Dynamic MAC Learning

In the first blog post of the MLAG Technology Deep Dive series, we explored the components of an MLAG system and the fundamental control plane requirements.

This post focuses on a major building block of the layer-2 data plane functionality: MAC learning. We’ll keep using the same network topology with two switches and five hosts, and assume our system tries its best to implement hot-potato switching (sending the frames toward the destination MAC address on the shortest possible path).

MLAG Deep Dive: Dynamic MAC Learning

In the first blog post of the MLAG Technology Deep Dive series, we explored the components of an MLAG system and the fundamental control plane requirements.

This post focuses on a major building block of the layer-2 data plane functionality: MAC learning. We’ll keep using the same network topology with two switches and five hosts, and assume our system tries its best to implement hot-potato switching (sending the frames toward the destination MAC address on the shortest possible path).

RSA: Cisco launches SASE, offers roadmap for other cloud-based services

Cisco made a variety of security upgrades at the RSA Conference designed to move security operation to the cloud, improve its Secure Access Service Edge offering and offer new simplified security end point control.The biggest piece of the Cisco roll out was a new overarching security platform called the Cisco Security Cloud will include unified management and policies, and offer open APIs to help grow a multivendor security ecosystem. Cisco defines the  Security Cloud as a “multi-year strategic vision for the future of security.” It is an ongoing journey that began several years ago and Cisco will continue delivering upon the key tenets of this vision with a consistent roadmap. The cloud will be made up of existing products like Umbrella and offerings from Duo, other features will be developed in the future.To read this article in full, please click here

RSA: Cisco launches SASE, offers roadmap for other cloud-based services

Cisco made a variety of security upgrades at the RSA Conference designed to move security operation to the cloud, improve its Secure Access Service Edge offering and offer new simplified security end point control.The biggest piece of the Cisco roll out was a new overarching security platform called the Cisco Security Cloud will include unified management and policies, and offer open APIs to help grow a multivendor security ecosystem. Cisco defines the  Security Cloud as a “multi-year strategic vision for the future of security.” It is an ongoing journey that began several years ago and Cisco will continue delivering upon the key tenets of this vision with a consistent roadmap. The cloud will be made up of existing products like Umbrella and offerings from Duo, other features will be developed in the future.To read this article in full, please click here

RSA: Cisco launches SASE, offers roadmap for other cloud-based services

Cisco made a variety of security upgrades at the RSA Conference designed to move security operation to the cloud, improve its Secure Access Service Edge offering and offer new simplified security end point control.The biggest piece of the Cisco roll out was a new overarching security platform called the Cisco Security Cloud will include unified management and policies, and offer open APIs to help grow a multivendor security ecosystem. Cisco defines the  Security Cloud as a “multi-year strategic vision for the future of security.” It is an ongoing journey that began several years ago and Cisco will continue delivering upon the key tenets of this vision with a consistent roadmap. The cloud will be made up of existing products like Umbrella and offerings from Duo, other features will be developed in the future.To read this article in full, please click here

Ampere trials AmphereOne server processor with customers

Ampere Computing introduced the next generation of its Arm-based server processors and said it has begun sampling the chip to select customers.Former Intel president Renee James launched Ampere in 2018, and the company so far has released two processors aimed at cloud data centers: the 80-core Ampere Altra and the 128-core Ampere Altra Max. Those processors used cores licensed from Arm Holdings. But now, with the new AmphereOne chip, Ampere has created customized versions of the Arm processor cores to better tailor them to customer needs.  Read more: The three-way race for GPU dominance in the data centerTo read this article in full, please click here