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New York, April 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Software Defined Perimeter Market By Component By Connectivity By Organization Size By Deployment Type By Region, Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2019 - 2025" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05885924/?utm_source=GNW Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) is a security-based approach that reduces network-based attacks. In this sense, a perimeter is dynamically established on the network to secure data present in the cloud, the demilitarized zone and the data centers. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the changing patterns of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are expected to further accelerate growth.

Traditional VPN access is liberal and allows remote workers access to the network, which is not needed to complete the tasks. This results in access to resources and is unreasonably obvious, vulnerable and can be easily targeted. Organizations require additional user communication and implementation through a variety of cloud instances. The cost of VPN or firewall rises immediately with the need for such additional authorizations. VPN also provides versatility and can therefore be used to connect Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), data centers as well as multiple networks. Nonetheless, this connection costs a lot and is resource-intensive. SDP decreases the costs incurred and eventually drives demand for data security in the infrastructure.

Organizations such as banks and other financial services, healthcare and telecommunications providers, face difficulties in meeting security requirements in virtualized cloud environments. Financial institutions are expected to have a data center with several physical controls. It makes it difficult for financial institutions to use public cloud infrastructure. SDP simplifies these difficulties and allows using public cloud infrastructure when appropriate.

Software-Defined Architecture provides a stringent framework of access for specific resources and applications. There is also a limited threat surface because the target individuals remain hidden and the controller must verify the users. Software-Defined Firewall prevents credential theft, internal network attacks, ransomware, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Major factors driving market growth include a rising need for a policy-based security architecture to minimize network complexity, increase the adoption of cloud-based applications, and a growing need for regulation and enforcement to improve network security.

Based on Component, the market is segmented into Solution and Services. Solution segment is further bifurcated into Access Control, Risk Analytics & Visualization, Performance Management & Reporting, Security Compliance & Policy Management and Others. Based on Connectivity, the market is segmented into End Point, Gateway and Controller. Based on Organization Size, the market is segmented into Large Enterprises and Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Based on Deployment Type, the market is segmented into On Premise and Cloud. Based on Regions, the market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, Middle East & Africa.

The major strategies followed by the market participants are Acquisitions. Based on the Analysis presented in the Cardinal matrix, Intel Corporation, Verizon Communications, Inc., and Cisco Systems, Inc. are some of the forerunners in the Software Defined Perimeter Market. Companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., and Akamai Technologies, Inc., NortonLifeLock, Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Dell Technologies, Inc., Pulse Secure, LLC are some of the key innovators in Software Defined Perimeter Market.

The market research report covers theanalysis of key stake holders of the market. Key companies profiled in the report include Cisco Systems, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Dell Technologies, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc., Intel Corporation, NortonLifeLock, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., and Pulse Secure, LLC.

Recent strategies deployed in Software Defined Perimeter Market

Partnerships, Collaborations, and Agreements:

Jan-2020: Pulse Secure signed a distribution partnership with SecureWave, a data security and IT infrastructure value-added distributor. Through this partnership, the company aims to increase its sales channels throughout Israel to meet the increasing demand for Zero Trust access security.

Dec-2019: Fortinet announced that Safe-T Group, a provider of secure access solutions has joined the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Technology Alliance Partner program with its Software-Defined Perimeter solution. Through this partnership, the companies aimed at helping the organizations in developing a secure and remote agile unit.

Dec-2019: Pulse Secure announced a distribution partnership with Cloud Distribution, a next-generation value-added distributor. The partnership was aimed at growing its channel community throughout Ireland and the UK for fulfilling the demand of Zero Trust access security.

Feb-2019: Cisco collaborated with Verizon Communications, a telecommunications conglomerate company. Following this collaboration, Verizon aimed at expanding its offerings and its Virtual Network Services also supports 5G devices on Cisco's software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform. This made it easier to manage network traffic and application performance across both private and public networks.

Jan-2019: Verizon collaborated with McAfee, a device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Together, the companies aimed at protecting the home network with the help of Verizon's Home Network Protection (HNP).

Dec-2018: Fortinet collaborated with Symantec, a cybersecurity service provider. Following the collaboration, the companies aimed at delivering strong security solutions throughout the endpoint, network and cloud environments.

Acquisition and Mergers:

Oct-2019: Akamai announced the acquisition of ChameleonX, a provider of AI-powered Runtime Web Application Self-protecting solution. The acquisition provided the former company with a solution, which detects and blocks active attacks without limiting the use of website technologies or impacting the customer experience.

Sep-2019: Akamai took over KryptCo, a security startup. Through the acquisition, the company strengthened its presence in the zero-trust ecosystem.

Jul-2019: Palo Alto took over Twistlock, the leader in container security. The acquisition was aimed at extending its Prisma cloud security strategy. The acquisition extended the company's ability to secure today's modern applications throughout the entire life cycle.

Jun-2019: Cisco acquired Sentryo, a provider of cybersecurity and situation awareness solutions. The acquisition was aimed at maintaining resiliency in industrial networks and ensuring protection against security attacks.

Jun-2019: Palo Alto acquired PureSec, a visionary serverless security company for extending its Prisma cloud security platform.

Mar-2019: Palo Alto completed the acquisition of Demisto, a security operations platform. The acquisition expanded its security platform Cortex.

Mar-2019: Verizon took over ProtectWise, a company providing cloud-delivered Network Detection and Response. The acquisition enabled the former company to develop its product offering in Network Detection and Response.

Feb-2019: NortonLifeLock acquired Luminate Security to enhance the capabilities of Symantec's Integrated Cyber Defense Platform through integrating it with Luminate's Secure Access Cloud technology for accessing applications and workloads.

Jan-2019: Cisco completed the acquisition of Singularity Networks, a Network Analytics Company. The acquisition strengthened its business by improving network performance.

Jan-2019: Check Point acquired ForceNock Security Ltd., a security startup. This acquisition bolstered the security business of the former company.

Jan-2019: Akamai acquired Janrain to deliver security solutions against malicious and fraudulent activities by combining Janrain's Identity Cloud with the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform.

Nov-2018: Verizon announced that it has acquired PrecisionAccess solution and other Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) related assets from Vidder, Inc. The addition of these assets into Verizon would enable it in helping the organizations in protecting application infrastructure against cyber threats.

Oct-2018: Cisco has acquired Duo Security for addressing new security perimeter. The acquisition boosted Cisco's position in the SDP market and the acquisition would accelerate its intent-based networking strategy and expanding endpoint visibility coverage.

Oct-2018: Check Point completed the acquisition of Dome9, a provider of security and compliance solutions. The acquisition enhanced its cloud security solution offerings.

Oct-2018: Palo Alto acquired RedLock, a developer of internet security software. The acquisition was aimed at expanding its leadership in security solutions.

Product Launches and Product Expansions:

Mar-2020: Fortinet introduced the FortiGate 1800F Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) powered by NP7, the company's seventh-generation network processor. This gateway has been launched for enabling the enterprises in achieving true internal segmentation as well as performance, scale, detection, and enforcement capabilities.

Feb-2020: Intel unveiled four new security capabilities. These capabilities include application isolation, VM and container isolation, full memory encryption, and Intel platform firmware resilience.

Oct-2019: Check Point launched new 1500 series security gateways for SMBs. These gateways would set new standards of protection against the most advanced fifth-generation cyberattacks and would deliver unrivaled ease of deployment and management.

Oct-2019: NortonLifeLock launched Symantec Endpoint Security (SES), a new platform. This platform has been designed for delivering detection, protection, and response in a single agent installation.

Sep-2019: Dell launched the next generation of its foundational Data Domain data protection portfolio, the new Dell EMC PowerProtect DD series of appliances. The company also announced Dell EMC PowerProtect software enhancements and PowerProtect Cyber Recovery enhancements. These products simplify and provide operational efficiencies for data protection for multi-cloud workloads.

Aug-2019: Dell together with VMware, a software company announced advancements in software-defined networking. These advancements enable the company to lower the cost of networking in today's multi-cloud world.

Jul-2019: Check Point introduced 16000 Plus and 26000 Turbo, two new security gateway appliances that help the organizations in adopting cloud technologies efficiently and securely for transforming digitally.

Jul-2019: NortonLifeLock introduced a new cloud access security solution. This solution helps in securing cloud and internet access and use in an enterprise environment.

Jun-2019: Check Point released CloudGuard Log.ic, a new security analytics solution to deliver cloud-native security intelligence and threat protection.

Jun-2019: Fortinet introduced the Secure SD-Branch platform. This platform has been designed for securing the WAN and access edge, as well as enabling security-driven networking for distributed enterprises.

May-2019: Palo Alto launched Prisma, a cloud security suite. This suite helps the company's customers in leading a more secure digital life.

Jan-2019: Check Point introduced Maestro, a hyper-scale network security solution that delivers flexible cloud-level security platforms to businesses.

Scope of the Study

Market Segmentation:

By Component

Solution

o Access Control

o Risk Analytics & Visualization

o Performance Management & Reporting

o Security Compliance & Policy Management

o Others

Services

By Connectivity

End Point

Gateway

Controller

By Organization Size

Large Enterprises

Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

By Deployment Type

On Premise

Cloud

By Geography

North America

o US

o Canada

o Mexico

o Rest of North America

Europe

o Germany

o UK

o France

o Russia

o Spain

o Italy

o Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

o China

o Japan

o India

o South Korea

o Singapore

o Malaysia

o Rest of Asia Pacific

LAMEA

o Brazil

o Argentina

o UAE

o Saudi Arabia

o South Africa

o Nigeria

o Rest of LAMEA

Companies Profiled

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Dell Technologies, Inc.

Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Fortinet, Inc.

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Stay-at-home orders in free countries, and lockdowns in those that arent free, are having profound consequences for international peace and security. While humanitarian leaders grapple with emergency response to the COVID-19 crisis, human rights leaders should be using this moment to call for lifting restrictions on fundamental rights such as internet freedom.

World leaders have rightly seized on the COVID-19 crisis to negotiate a global ceasefire. They also need to restore basic freedoms to keep a ceasefire in effect. In countries with fragile peace, such as South Sudan, or those under newly proposed ceasefires, such as Yemen, the need for communication is keen.

The virus is hampering communication such as womens networks that have helped to disrupt terrorist cells, counter violent extremism, and resolve disputes through nonviolent mediation and negotiation. Government-enforced lockdowns in some countries have torn away this part of the social fabric.

In humanitarian crises, women are essential to securing and sharing aid for families and communities, informing others, alerting to dangers, mediating disputes, reconciling differences. Congress recognized this in the Women Peace and Security Act of 2017. The law acknowledged that guaranteeing womens fundamental freedoms results in more inclusive and democratic societies and is critical to the long-term stability of countries and regions. We need these more than ever.

Today, every country is in crisis or on the verge of it. The U.S. economy went from unprecedented growth to full stop. We shield our eyes from how our children and grandchildren will pay back bailouts. We live online in our work and fragile social circles. We network to help the newly unemployed, the elderly and vulnerable, and to educate our children. Now imagine living in a country in lockdown and without internet freedom.

The global recession may destabilize societies for years to come. Womens economic participation, on the other hand, raises household income and national GDPs. The White House recognized this in its Women in Global Development and Prosperity Initiative, which has doubled its investment to $1 billion in its first year. A bipartisan bill in Congress seeks to double the investment again. Its sponsors argue, correctly, that womens free participation in the marketplace strengthens and pacifies nations and regions, a U.S. national security priority. And with businesses closed, internet access can help women to remain productive.

The U.S. Women Peace and Security Strategy pledged to promote the protection of women and girls human rights, access to aid, and safety from violence, abuse and exploitation around the world. This is no time to go wobbly. Women need access to alert authorities to dangers in and around the home to, and from, those in lockdown with them.

Governments may suspend some human rights during crisis and conflict. Not so humanitarian principles, which are specific to crisis and war. Protecting women, even in a health crisis, is still required. Access to information, and the ability to communicate freely, are essential.

The COVID-19 crisis is exposing the asymmetry of information freedom. Beijing was free to condemn feminist activists Ai Xiaoming and Guo Jing publicly for publishing their diaries from Wuhan abroad. The women were not free to publish them at home or defend themselves from the government. Human rights leaders and policymakers who are huddled around home computers for panel discussions must not forget that rights belong to everyone. The silence is disconcerting.

The crisis also has exposed the alarming failure of global health institutions in their core mission. Thats even more reason to democratize health information. Pregnant women all over the world are reaching full term and going into labor. Babies wont be locked down, yet travel and a hospital visit incurs an added threat of encountering a death-dealing virus for mother, child and companions. More than ever, women need access to online support and, if necessary, coaching in childbirth.

Seizing this moment to lift restrictions on freedom of speech is not a test of a political agenda. It is not a test of what human rights or humanitarian principles trump in a crisis. It is a reminder of why we value those freedoms. They are the only hope of helping to prevent the next crisis, and the one after that. Had the world more timely and accurate information about the novel coronavirus and its effects at its earliest stages, after all, how different matters might be today.

Internet freedom can never replace the unique power of womens networking quiet commiserations over tea, forgiving embraces, visits in haste to rescue, share or offer encouragement. All that, like our economies, has come to a halt. But until genuine human networking can resume, world leaders must use this crisis to insist that nations lift restrictions on information freedom.

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D., is founder and president of the American Council on Women, Peace and Security. Follow her on Twitter @susan_yoshihara.

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UPC operates the largest and strongest broadband network in Switzerland. With the current extension, fibre optic connections make up 97 percent of the UPC network. Thanks to the closely woven fibre optic network, a wide variety of locations throughout Switzerland can be connected to each other using the shortest possible route and redundantly. This unique network infrastructure is of great importance for Switzerland as a business location, both in the current situation and in view of accelerating digitisation.

Internet bandwidths increased to the maximum possible

Internet speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s are available throughout UPC's coverage area. In the fibre optic network, UPC can provide business services with bandwidths of up to several Tbit/s. In order to support its customers with the massive increase in teleworking and to ensure flawless connectivity, UPC Business is now proactively increasing Internet bandwidths to the maximum possible at no extra cost until the end of May 2020. Marco Quinter, Managing Director Business Services: "UPC Business is aware of its great responsibility and is doing everything necessary to optimally support its customers in these uncertain times. We are conducting intensive dialogues with our customers so that their needs can be covered as quickly and comprehensively as possible."

Protection against cyberattacks even when working from home

UPC Business has observed a sharp increase in cybercriminal activity since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis. Teleworking is a weak spot that attackers are currently exploiting on a large scale. Companies therefore need an Internet security service that reliably protects computers from cyberattacks everywhere, whether they are using the company network, working from home or on the road.

In addition to the bandwidth upgrade, UPC Business is offering its customers the Business Secure Web security service free of charge until the end of July 2020. Business Secure Web is a cloud service that effectively protects companies, including their teleworking employees, from infections and prevents attacks. The service can be activated with little effort and

updates itself automatically. Another advantage: using Business Secure Web does not affect the speed of your Internet connection.

Faster Internet and comprehensive protection against cyberattacks: with UPC's broadband network, companies are optimally equipped for the next surge in digitisation.

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The coronavirus crisis is showing us how to live online, The New York Times Kevin Roose argued, as states directed residents not to leave their home. After spending years using technologies that mostly seemed to push us apart, the coronavirus crisis is showing us that the internet is still capable of pulling us together, he wrote. Has coronavirus made the internet better? The New York Times Jenna Wortham asked a couple of weeks later, concluding that it had.

Its a tempting thought, but a premature one. Major platforms are struggling to adapt to enormous amounts of additional activity and strange new use cases. Moderation decisions that were difficult under the best of circumstances, with people responsible for them, are now being made by artificial intelligence. Platforms that had big user bases now have huge user bases, making the exploitation of security flaws far more worthwhile. Companies that were hoovering up our personal data when we spent eight hours a day on our phones are now in touch with our most intimate anxieties and desires around the clock. The internet feels better only because its all we haveand all the pressure were putting on it may, ultimately, make things worse.

As stay-at-home orders rolled out across the country, Facebook announced that it would send workers home, including content moderators, explaining that many of them would be unable to do their jobs at home for various reasons: The data they look at are sensitive, and shouldnt be pulled up on a home network, the jobs they perform are emotionally taxing and require on-site resources, etc. Some human moderators are still working, but Facebook, along with other major internet platforms such as YouTube and Twitter, announced that it would be relying far more on artificial intelligence than before, which it acknowledged would lead to mistakes.

AI content moderation has a lot of limitations. Its a blunt instrument solving a problem that has endless permutations, and it can produce both false negatives and false positives. A computer can deduce a lot about a video or a sentence: how many people have seen it, which IP addresses are sharing it, what its been tagged as, how many times its been reported, whether it matches with already-known illegal content. What its not doing is looking, and itself making a decision, says Sarah T. Roberts, an internet-governance researcher at UCLA. Thats what a human can do. As a result, moderation algorithms are likely to over-police in some contexts, over-moderate in some contexts, and leave some other areas virtually uncovered, Roberts told me. All of the benefit of having the human moderation team, their cognitive ability, their sense-making ability, their ability to deal with a whole host of types of content, not just the ones for which they were expressly designed, and so on, get lost.

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