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For many years, networks were exclusively built, operated, and maintained as a grouping of individual devices. To build networks, we would log into devices individually and manually, or by using some sort of scripting solution. For network operations, each network device had to have its own knowledge of the picture of the network. Each deviceContinue reading “Buzzword Bio – Software Defined Networking”

Using the network as an enforcement point for security policy is a concept that has been around for a long time and does not seem to be going anywhere. Since traffic is already traversing the network, it is a natural point to either allow or deny network packets. Also, with the importance of defense inContinue reading “Buzzword Bio – Macro/microsegmentation”

The ‘Buzzword Biographies’ is a blog series that takes a looks at popular technology industry acronyms and trends, and tries to explain and describe them. I, personally struggle with what some of these terms and trends really mean, so I have done some research and shared what I learned in an attempt to help othersContinue reading “Buzzword Bio – SASE and SSE”