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Network Security

Business happens across networks, but threats also come across networks: private and public; on-premises and cloud. Networks are often the last place you can find evidence of and stop attacks. These types of solutions need to understand a wide variety of traffic types to determine what is normal and not across varied customer environments. Network security tools that protect corporate data centers, remote workers, industrial facilities, and cloud assets are essential.

Hybrid Event
Hybrid Event
cyberevolution 2024
cyberevolution will return to Frankfurt in 2024! Meet 500 security experts from 3 to 5 December 2024, get ready and look forward to interactive sessions to explore cybersecurity in an AI-driven...
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Compromise of IOTA
Turning a blind eye to security in favor of optimism If you have any take-away from reading KuppingerCole research , hopefully it is that APIs are a critical element to protect. This is true...
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Whitepaper
Whitepaper
Speeding up Zero Trust Delivery using Managed Services
Zero Trust is important as a fundamental and essential paradigm for a stronger cybersecurity posture. Zero Trust, on the other hand, is complex to put in practice. For succeeding with the Zero...
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Event Recording
Event Recording
City of The Hague: Adding Access Control to Microservice Architectures for ZTA
The Common Ground movement of the Dutch municipalities is developing innovative solutions for greater interoperability. An important part of this is the data landscape, where functionality is...
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Smarter Risk
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Smarter Risk
According to IBM a consistent way to manage all types of risk is the key to success for financial services organizations.  To support this IBM will be rolling out their Smarter Risk offering...
Mobile Security: Virtualization on the smartphone
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Mobile Security: Virtualization on the smartphone
LG recently announced a new platform called GATE that will enable some LG business smartphones to run two mobile operating systems in parallel. LG appears, with this feature, to be reacting to...
Azure Active Directory: What is the Graph API?
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Azure Active Directory: What is the Graph API?
In Azure Active Directory (AAD) there is a Graph API. This is the main API to access AAD. The idea of a Graph API is not entirely new. The one provided by Facebook is already well established. But...
More Consolidation for the API Economy
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More Consolidation for the API Economy
CA Technologies acquires Layer 7, MuleSoft acquires Programmable Web, 3Scale gets funding It is clear that the API Economy is kicking into gear in a big way. Last week, Intel announced its...
How to Make an API
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How to Make an API
Introduction Making an API is hard. It is also a tough question. A small company out of England has figured out how to let anyone make an API with just: Dropbox A Spreadsheet A...
It Takes a Community to Manage an API Ecosystem
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It Takes a Community to Manage an API Ecosystem
Intro Starting at the EIC 2012 I have been talking and presenting a lot about The API Economy. The API Economy has become a strategic topic for organizations. As one can expect with a hot...
SCIM and the Microsoft Graph API
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SCIM and the Microsoft Graph API
Kim Cameron recently blogged about his view on SCIM and the Microsoft Graph API. Kim explains his view as to why SCIM and the Microsoft Graph API, which is related to the WAAS (Windows Azure...
IBM CastIron – delivering on the promise of the Open API Economy
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IBM CastIron – delivering on the promise of the Open API Economy
Some days ago I had a very interesting briefing with IBM on their CastIron products. I had been in touch with CastIron way before they became part of IBM, because CastIron was one of the most...
Smart Data: The better Big Data – using the Open API Economy concepts to better deal with your data
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Smart Data: The better Big Data – using the Open API Economy concepts to better deal with your data
IT vendors these days are making a lot of noise about “Big Data”. That comes as no surprise, since Big Data allows selling masses of expensive hardware, software, and services. But does it really...
Is API Growth in a Stall?
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Is API Growth in a Stall?
Intro Last year when we published the API Economy document , we showed the growth rate of APIs over time. Examining the numbers from the same source — the ProgrammableWeb — in 2012 it appears...
Isn’t it better that we talk about last-generation firewalls instead of next-generation firewalls?
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Isn’t it better that we talk about last-generation firewalls instead of next-generation firewalls?
One of the buzzwords that became quite popular during the last few years is “next-generation firewall”. Some startup vendors position themselves in that market segment and established firewall...
More on the Open API Revolution
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More on the Open API Revolution
As I said in an earlier post, the folks as Programmableweb.com announced the that the number of open APIs they track reached an unbelievable number—4000—in record time. The published this graph...