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  • 2026,  Research Notes

    Fortinet Architects The Convergence Of Firewall And SASE Services

    July 27, 2026 /

    Many solution providers are charting a path of reimagining SASE services, and it is a logical evolution. With the rapid adoption of agentic AI applications and proliferation of corresponding workloads, SD-WAN and security will have to support the requirements of both human users and agents. It is anticipated that agents will generate far more network traffic than humans through persistent, around-the-clock MCP server, API, task, and orchestration calls across the infrastructure. These demands are expected to continue to escalate over time, and infrastructure providers will have to keep pace with deployments in both the cloud and on-premises as private AI adoption grows. To address these challenges, Fortinet recently announced an…

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    Three Big Takeaways From RSA Conference 2026

    April 1, 2026 /

    Image: RSA Conference 2026 RSA Conference yet again welcomed scores of security practitioners, executives, and infrastructure providers to San Francisco this year. I had the opportunity to attend in person and meet with thirty companies over four long days. Not surprisingly, agentic AI security punctuated all my conversations. With a continued theme of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See Agentic frameworks are moving at hyper speed, and enterprises are struggling to keep pace. Historically, technology roadmap refreshes were measured in years. In contrast, modern AI application innovation can be measured in months. OpenClaw experimentation is a glaring…

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