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This maturity model helps guide organizations through the various phases of CI/CD adoption.
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To verify that their network is connected, secure, and operating as intended, enterprises must deploy robust validation tools that provide up-to-date…
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Network-as-a-service (NaaS) vendors provide a global transit network by enabling any-to-any connectivity among globally distributed sets of cloud workloads, branch sites,…
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Regardless of the network size or type, ongoing configuration changes based on business and technical requirements are inevitable. However, network infrastructure…
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Playing an essential role in cloud-native development, a service mesh enables fast, reliable, and secure communications between microservices. Unlike other systems…
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Digital asset management (DAM) solutions provide a means for organizations to manage digital assets such as photographic images and video and…
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Poorly managed and inadequately secured data leaves organizations at risk for a data breach and increases the costs of storage and…
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User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) is a security domain that detects potential threats by monitoring and analyzing system behaviors. Using…
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The infrastructure surrounding containers is complex on many levels. Registries hold container images ranging from base image to complete application image.…
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Cloud network security solutions provide a suite of security services for single and multicloud environments to prevent unauthorized traffic, access, modification,…
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Containers have revolutionized the way that IT views servers. While virtual machines (VMs) allowed users to run many logical servers on…
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Cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) is the collection, normalization, analysis, and sharing of information and data regarding vulnerabilities and breaches, leading to actionable…
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Penetration testing, a cornerstone of cybersecurity, has for many years been the go-to technique for security professionals looking to uncover vulnerabilities…
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Autonomous security operations center (SOC) solutions reallocate security analysts’ processing power from conducting repetitive analysis and response tasks to only investigating…
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