Cisco and IBM: Solving Customer Challenges through the Power of Partnerships

Complexity is one of the top challenges our customers face today. CISOs not only want to enable their teams to detect and respond to threats faster, they want to simplify workflows and streamline operations at the same time. In our annual CISO surveys, we’ve been seeing a trend...

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The Circus is Coming to Town and Why You Should Stay Away

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We are entering the integrated era You’ve probably noticed the recent headlines of a few one-trick ponies getting together to form their own three ring circus.  These events underscore a paradigm shift that is underway – the security world is entering the integrated era.  Nowadays, customers want comprehensive...

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Secure Multi-Tenancy Part 2: Going Multi-Instance

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Requirements Overview In the previous blog post, we went over the common requirements for partitioning a single physical security appliance into multiple virtual firewalls. We talked about how this logical separation brings a lot of complexity into environments where true data and management plane isolation between different tenants...

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Security Multi-Tenancy Part 1: Defining the Problem

Pre-Virtual Virtual Firewalls Nowadays, everyone likes to talk about network function virtualization. Most security vendors build their firewall products to run on a few popular hypervisors. However, the “virtual firewall” term predates this virtualization craze. Many firewall administrators use this nomenclature to describe an ability to create multiple...

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