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Love this insightful blog post from one of our thought leaders and key #MSSP Zscaler Partners in ANZ Jeremy Nees at The Instillery. The post sheds light on the significance of the #Airgap acquisition and how it relates to the Zero Trust Exchange for East-West traffic. Thank you, Jeremy, for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Check out the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eekGE-Bi.

Breaking news 💥 Acquisition of Airgap will make it possible for Zscaler to secure east - west traffic within OT environment. Check out the full press release

The complexity that east-west firewalls bring means most segmentation projects are never fully implemented. With Airgap, we will eliminate the need for east-west firewalls, NACs and micro segmentation and deliver greater operational simplicity.

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Zscaler bolsters its Zero Trust SASE solution with the acquisition of Airgap Networks. Check out today's news to learn how Airgap's solutions extend Zscaler's Zero Trust SASE, eliminating the need for firewall-based segmentation. https://lnkd.in/d_sY6yKi

So the big $28B news dropped, a few days ago. Sharing my thoughts as an ex-splunker on this Forrester article, Splunk Is Good For Cisco, But is Cisco good for Splunk customers, community and the security eco system. What didn’t surface up in the article is Splunk positioning as a vendor agnostic SIEM and SOAR in the world of thousands [1] of security controls vendors and the existing base of Splunk security apps. 50% of 2,800 Splunk apps are categorized under Security today. It had a flywheel effect when the community users built and contributed Splunk apps from each security partner before it graduated to a partnership between companies and even getting an official badge with support. With this acquisition, it will definitely benefit Cisco first shops and like to adopt an all-in approach like Palo Alto Networks. The smaller non-Cisco technology vendors will have to assess their options whether to stop investing in a Splunk’s integration or continue and stand on the shoulders of giants and risk losing to consolidation. The bigger competing vendors with overlapping portfolio of controls will probably reduce their investments. It will be interesting to see how this will pan out in heterogeneous or cloud first environments as companies decide between vendor and tools consolidation or diversification. My two parting thoughts, the security telemetry, logs, detection and response plans belongs to you, take a data and people driven approach if you are in the market of investing or divesting your existing SIEM. 1. Look out for open standards championed by the community and evaluate a platform with a data first approach. 2. As we struggle with scarce data and security talents, security leadership has to balance the skills and resources required between a purpose built SIEM product, a flexible data platform with SIEM capabilities or build your security data lake. 1. CyberScape by Momentum Cyber: https://lnkd.in/g2ag5-3j Disclaimer: I currently work for Elastic, opinions are mine as an ex-splunker (2014-2020).

Exciting News from Dasera! We're thrilled to announce our latest advancements in data security with strategic partnerships and integrations with Cisco, Cohesity, and Intuitive.Cloud. We're also introducing our NEW Data Security and Governance Dashboard. Someone recently said most cybersecurity dashboards are like scales that show us we're overweight but don't show us how to lose weight. Our new dashboard isn't just a scale that shows your risks. It's more like a personal trainer who guides you on how to solve and minimize your risks effectively. Coupled with our flexible 'Pay as You Grow' pricing, we're turning a corner to ensure you have the tools, reach, and insights needed to enhance your organization’s data security posture proactively. Check it out below! #DSPM #datasecurity #datagovernance

Cisco to acquire Splunk in deal valued at $28 billion: Cisco and Splunk announced a definitive agreement under which Cisco intends to acquire Splunk for $157 per share in cash, representing approximately $28 billion in equity value. Upon close of the acquisition, Splunk President and CEO Gary Steele will join Cisco’s Executive Leadership Team reporting to Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins. The acquisition builds on Splunk’s heritage of helping organizations enhance their digital resilience and will accelerate Cisco’s strategy to securely connect everything to make … More → The post Cisco to acquire Splunk in deal valued at $28 billion appeared first on Help Net Security.

“So we’ve taken a different approach than other companies in this space, who’ve maybe acquired the components and stitched them together. We think it’s really important for the integrated platform to have all of the pieces built to integrate from day one,”. “We just heard consistent feedback, after that initial launch, that people just want one easy [solution] like things that they can drop in that will automatically set up that connectivity for them,”. Excellent interview with Annika Garbers about our #SASE platform, Cloudflare One. The goal is end-to-end simplicity with unified network and #SSE controls around the world - not a handful of legacy products stitched together. The launch of our native #SDWAN is unique in this market and huge boon for enterprises looking to truly embrace SASE. https://lnkd.in/gb_Tqm8b

Interesting article from #SDxCentral on what telcos are reading about. #Edge & private networks are out while threats and #security are in. Has the industry been focused on the wrong trends?