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Cisco Live Day 1 news brings together networking and security

The 2024 edition of Cisco Systems Inc.’s global user event Cisco Live is particularly important, as artificial intelligence has redefined networking, security, observability and collaboration. The fundamental tenet of my research is that share shifts happen when markets transition, putting the incumbent vendors at risk if they don’t evolve with the industry. In the past, Cisco has leveraged market transitions to grow its share in switching, voice-over-internet-protocol, Wi-Fi, security and other areas.

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Cisco Live Day 1 news brings together networking and security

Arista enhances its multi-domain segmentation to fight east-west threats

Arista Networks Inc. today announced an enhancement to Arista MSS — Multi-Domain Segmentation Service — to create a zero-trust enterprise network. “We tried to overcome one of the biggest challenges of micro-segmentation technologies that are always deployed in islands today,”Alessandro Barbieri, director of product management at the company, told me in a briefing.

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Arista enhances its multi-domain segmentation to fight east-west threats

Zscaler goes east-west with the acquisition of Airgap Networks

With Zscaler Inc.‘s announced acquisition today of startup Airgap Networks Inc., a network access and segmentation tech provider, the cybersecurity provider is looking to address gaps in operational technology. No financial terms for the purchase were provided, but Airgap has raised a little over $13 million since it was founded in 2019, so the deal is likely under $100 million. Recently, I spoke with Naresh Kumar (pictured), vice president and general manager of product management at Zscaler, to review the acquisition details. He put the deal in perspective.

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Zscaler goes east-west with the acquisition of Airgap Networks

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

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

Keysight Unveils 400-Gig Packet Brokers to Boost Network Security

Keysight Technologies, a manufacturer of network packet brokers (NPB) and a provider of solutions to improve network visibility and security, recently announced a pair of 400 Gig products.

Packet brokers intelligently move traffic to the various security and monitoring tools that required network information. Without an NPB, all data is sent to all devices, which requires a product like a firewall to pre-process data before analyzing it. Given the cost of these devices, this might be the costliest way to deploy security and management tools.

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Keysight Unveils 400-Gig Packet Brokers to Boost Network Security