Network Security

Cisco taps Teleport for infrastructure identity management tech

Cisco wants Teleport to help it bring infrastructure identity everywhere.

By Michael Cooney

Aug 25, 20265 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIdentity and Access ManagementNetwork Security

Articles

Cisco exec testifies at US Senate panel on AI’s network impact

Cisco extols AI's potential to deliver new applications, improve performance, bolster security, and manage complexity.

By Michael Cooney

Aug 3, 2026 7 mins

Network SecurityNetworking DevicesWireless Security

Cato Networks launches agentic threat prevention

The new AI-powered SASE capability predicts attack paths using network and security telemetry and automatically deploys protections against AI-assisted cyberattacks.

By Denise Dubie

Aug 3, 2026 5 mins

Network SecuritySecurity

Dangling DNS records and reverse DNS gaps give attackers new openings

Among 120 million newly registered domains, more than 22% were weaponized or showed threat characteristics, according to Infoblox's 2026 Threat Landscape Report.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jul 31, 2026 6 mins

DNSInternetNetwork Security

IBM: AI-driven attacks increased 56% last year, and data breach costs are up 12%

The financial toll of AI-powered breaches is significant. It adds an average of $1 million in costs per breach, as attackers use AI tools to increase speed, scale, and precision, IBM reports.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 29, 2026 5 mins

CyberattacksCybercrimeData Breach

We’re in the Unified SASE Era. What’s next?

A true unified SASE platform should use a single operating system, a unified client, a single analytics engine, and a single policy engine that can run on physical and virtual appliances, in the cloud, and as-a-Service.

By Nirav Shah, VP of Product Marketing, Fortinet

Jul 8, 2024 8 mins

Network Security

Why the future of network security is the convergence of SASE and firewalls

As compute moves closer to the user and the edge becomes the epicenter of business innovation, physical and cloud security must converge.

By Zeus Kerravala

Jul 29, 2026 7 mins

FirewallsNetwork SecuritySASE

Arista patches maximum severity vulnerability that is already being exploited

The vendor said that the problematic VeloCloud Orchestrator functionality was ‘intended to be for internal use only.’ Analysts stress that intent is not enough.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 28, 2026 6 mins

Network SecuritySecurityVulnerabilities

Fortinet’s new FortiGate platform converges firewall, SASE technologies

New FortiGate 1200G series with FortiSASE Outpost brings threat protection and cloud-delivered SASE to on-premises environments.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 28, 2026 2 mins

Cloud SecurityNetwork SecuritySASE

Netscout doubles DDoS defense capacity to counter AI-driven botnets

Following its acquisition of DigiCert’s DDoS and WAF services, Netscout is boosting its Arbor Cloud DDoS mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jul 28, 2026 4 mins

CyberattacksCybercrimeDDoS

Cisco, AMD bring enterprise-level security, visibility to Ryzen AI Halo systems

The joint architecture combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo hardware and a variety of Cisco technologies, including AI Defense for model and agent security, DefenseClaw for security policy enforcement, and Cisco Cloud Control to unify policy and control.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 24, 2026 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCPUs and ProcessorsNetwork Security

ISC2 seeks input from IT pros for AI security certification

ISC2 is developing a new AI security certification to help enterprises address emerging AI threats, governance challenges, and cybersecurity skills gaps.

By Denise Dubie

Jul 24, 2026 3 mins

CertificationsIT Training Network Security

Arista debuts unified SD-WAN edge platform

Arista’s new Edge Threat Management (ETM) for VeloCloud SD-WAN is designed to bring integrated security to branch offices and allow enterprises to replace multiple point products with a single, AI-driven edge platform.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 21, 2026 5 mins

Network SecuritySD-BranchSD-WAN