Arista Networks Inc. today announced a new network access control or NAC service on the opening day of this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.

The vendor is best known as a high-performance network vendor but moved into the security industry when it acquired Awake Security, which brought network detection and response or NDR.

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Arista announces network access control at RSA

The industry’s largest security show, the RSA Conference, kicks off this week in San Francisco, but many companies are getting ahead of it with announcements — including Infoblox Inc, the market leader in Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and IP address management, or DDI for short.

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Infoblox pivots its strategy to address the unification of networking and security

Market researcher Gartner Inc. released its 2023 Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge earlier this month, shining a light on the leaders, and laggards, in the growing cybersecurity segment.

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Dissecting Gartner’s new Security Service Edge Magic Quadrant

For customers of security provider Fortinet Inc., its annual Accelerate user event this week in Orlando, Florida, is an important event because it typically includes new products as well as updates to existing products — and the 2023 version of Accelerate held true to that expectation.

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Fortinet aligns its product strategy with the convergence of networking and security

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s just-reported financial results were certainly interesting and show continued progress, but that wasn’t the most interesting announcement HPE made Thursday.

Aruba, the networking division of HPE, announced its intent to acquire Israel-based Axis Security Ltd., which is one of many providers of secure service edge, or SSE, on the market today. Axis came to market with zero-trust network access as a service but since then has added other core components of SSE, including cloud access security broker, or CASB, and secure web gateway, or SWG. It also has digital experience management or DEM, which isn’t typically associated with security, but I believe an important part of SSE.

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HPE gets SASE with the acquisition of Axis Security