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HPE is updating and expanding its hybrid mesh firewall family, adding features that are designed to strengthen protection against AI threats. New capabilities give customers visibility into AI application usage, restrict access to high-risk AI websites, and provide the ability to filter keywords and manage AI tool file uploads. The upgrades enable a unified security fabric across enterprise envir…

Network segmentation is a foundational security control, but operationalizing it across heterogeneous environments has remained a persistent challenge. Forescout Technologies, an early pioneer in the network access control (NAC) space, is taking aim at the segmentation challenge with a new release of its 4D platform. The additions introduce identity- and attribute-driven zone modeling for managed…

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to ban imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over cybersecurity concerns, a move that, while focused on home networks, carries broader implications for enterprise risk, including exposure from remote work environments and increased scrutiny of network supply chains. “Malicious actors have exploited security gaps in foreign-made route…

As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents. Assuming the completion of Palo Alto Networks’ planned acqu…

Cisco is laying the groundwork to protect enterprise customers from an onslaught of AI agents and any security problems they may present in the near future. It’s rolling out identity and access management capabilities, a toolkit customers can use to embed security controls in AI agents , and automation features that will allow security operations teams to quickly see and respond to problems. “We …

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

The 2025 cybersecurity landscape was defined by a ruthless paradox: the lightning-fast weaponization of the new alongside the stubborn persistence of the old. This week at the RSAC 2026 conference, Cisco released its Talos 2025 Year in Review report, and it shows a new narrative has emerged for networking and security professionals. Attackers have moved beyond simple endpoint compromise, shifting…

Remembering the classic data center during a keynote at GTC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said “it used to be … for files. It’s now a factory to generate tokens.” Those old buildings are gone, replaced by mega installations powering AI. At GTC, Nvidia laid out a forward-looking data-center architecture with new chips, storage and networking technologies. Nvidia is also looking outward, to the edge and…

Nile was founded on the idea that enterprise networking had become too complex and too difficult to consume. The company built its Nile Access Service platform on a subscription-based NaaS model, delivering wired and wireless campus infrastructure with zero-trust security and autonomous operations. It has grown to more than 150 customers across 30 countries. Nile is now expanding its Nile Access …

Despite tariffs and parts shortages, the server market reached a record $125.3 billion dollars in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by the accelerated investment in AI Infrastructure, according to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. As has been the case for some time, hyperscalers and cloud service providers are the ones driving demand wh…

European cloud companies have called on the European Union to strengthen its legislative plans for cloud resilience and sovereignty, as they are concerned that it could enable US hyperscalers to indulge in “sovereignty-washing” — giving their services a false appearance of European sovereignty. The chair of the industry association Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe and 24 CEOs of …

A critical Telnet vulnerability with a CVSS rating of 9.8 enables attackers to take full control of affected systems before authentication even kicks in, security researchers at Dream Security have warned. Tracked as CVE-2026-32746, the vulnerability is in GNU inetutils telnetd, is a widely deployed implementation of the Telnet remote access protocol found across legacy infrastructure, networking…

“We’re going to space,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at the company’s GTC conference on Monday. But then he qualified those remarks. “We’ve already been out in space,” he said. The company’s chips are already in satellites in orbit above Earth. What’s new is that Nvidia is moving from isolated satellite deployments of its chips to larger-scale plans. “We’ll also build data centers in space,”…

SASE is headed in a new direction, literally. According to Versa CEO Kelly Ahuja , security service edge ( SSE ) platforms have historically focused on one direction: outbound traffic from users and devices to the internet. Protecting internet-facing applications from inbound threats has required deploying dedicated firewall infrastructure in front of each application environment, whether in a da…