back to article Cisco sacrifices iron, pushes gateway protection into cloud

Cisco's decided that the network perimeter is the wrong place for a Web gateway, so it's floating one into the cloud. Switchzilla, bowing to the inevitable decomposition of products into software, is pouring scorn on hardware gateways as inadequate and insecure as part of the pitch for its new "Umbrella" product. As a cloud- …

  1. fredesmite

    sure .. it will be safer inside the cloud

    Everyone and their mothers are putting their endpoint security tools on a Cloud instance in the front end side .

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