Adding managed security service provider (MSSP) offerings to a reseller portfolio requires a great deal of analysis, strategizing, and due diligence. A successful transition requires well-researched, deliberative decisions about the business model and service offerings. The market is growing rapidly for service providers that offer a next-generation firewall (NGFW) as a service—firms that own and operate the customer’s security hardware and software for a predetermined monthly fee over a contracted period of time. Many firms find that operating as a security provider increases customer value and retention, making revenue streams and margins more predictable, so the transition is well worth the effort.
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MEF plans to have its SD-WAN and LSO Sonata API standards published late in the second quarter of 2019. The forum is aligning key components this year to aid operators with orchestrating their...
AT&T is relying on its machine learning capabilities to provide cybersecurity for its 5G deployments. Rita Marty wrote in a company blog on Thursday that AT&T's years of experience deploying...
Intel said it will be exiting the 5G smartphone modem market in a surprising announcement, opting instead to continue to invest in its 5G network infrastructure business. Intel was expected to...
Edge computing in a mobile environment promises to underpin a variety of new technologies and services. But what exactly does MEC even stand for? It depends on who you ask.
Where Amazon considers the “edge” to be hundreds of miles from the user, the mobile market sees it differently.
For the most part, enterprises aren't tapping into the benefits of automation for their security efforts, according to a report sponsored by IBM. According to IBM Security's global study, just 27%...
The Common NFVi Telco Task Force is seeking to reduce the number of NVFi versions in use today in order to speed up the deployment of VNFs. The task force is comprised of AT&T, Bell Canada, China...
Cloud providers have the resources to fortify their data centers and hire armies of security pros, but they wield other powerful weapons to protect customer data.
The SD-WAN market is so hot right now that vendors, especially security companies, can’t help but jump in.
Light Reading is delighted - nay, pumped - to announce the finalists for this year's Leading Lights Awards program, which is now in its 15th year.
Fortinet is well known as a security vendor, but it made waves in mid-2018 when it began offering SD-WAN directly to consumers and competing against pure-play SD-WAN vendors.
The company also updated its operating system to power what it calls security-driven networking, including new features for SD-WAN, edge, and multi-cloud environments.
Fortinet CEO Ken Xie dishes on how building its own ASIC chip gives Fortinet a major computing power advantage in SD-WAN and why forging an array of technology partnerships rather than acquiring a...
After almost five years of talk, 5G is finally arriving. I had an opportunity to attend MWC Barcelona this year, and the innovations and challenges of 5G were on full display. A number of...
Plenty of young organizations may be cloud native with public services, but many incumbents cannot go that route.
Many small and midsize businesses work faster and harder than large enterprises, but they're just as vulnerable to cybercrime.
The push to commercialize 5G networks is also sharpening the focus on the need to reconsider the security measures that service providers have implemented in their existing mobile networks. And...
In addition to potentially increasing SD-WAN adoption, 5G could enable new use cases such as a network slice dedicated to SD-WAN.
Joe Barrett, President of the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), discusses the reasons for heightened security concerns, the importance of network-based security and the need for broad...
