Access-control lists, originally designed for routers to deny or admit packets entering a network from a WAN, have drawbacks in controlling a diverse group of users accessing LANs. ACLs have no ...

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The LAN has emerged as a security risk, subject to insider misuse as well as external attacks. Threats can arise from rogue hosts on wireless, guests plugging into open ports in a conference room, ...

Airgap Networks has developed a ransomware kill switch that blocks all lateral device-to-device communications and disables network-level communications among workstations and applications.

This is the second article in our spotlight on the evolution of the SGi/Gi-LAN, a core element in today’s mobile networks. Faced with an explosion of mobile devices and a shift in traffic patterns ...

Santa Clara, Calif. – Oct. 24, 2023 – Versa Networks, a leader in AI/ML-powered Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), today announced Versa Secure SD-LAN – the ...

The LAN edge presents a broad and potentially vulnerable target for cyber criminals, and many LAN solutions lack built-in security, so they end up being secured with add-on solutions that add cost and ...

Celona Inc., a California-based private 5G network provider, today announced two new capabilities to its enterprise clients and partner roster. Puneet Shetty, Celona’s vice president of product ...

Cato Networks, a specialist in wide-area network (WAN) and secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, is turning its attention to local area networks (LANs) with “the first complete convergence” of ...

SAN DIEGO — Vernier Networks Inc. announced this week the first customer shipments of its wireless LAN roaming, security, control and accountability solution for the enterprise. The company said at ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) we know today starts simply, with a switch connecting a computer to the network. But that inevitably gets more complex as you add routers and the occasional firewall to ...