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1. Maximizing the potential of ZTNA with deep packet inspection

   In today’s hybrid enterprise environments, zero-trust network access (ZTNA) is becoming increasingly important to improve the end-user experience while ensuring that the network is secured against attacks and malicious activities. This is possible with next-generation DPI software. DPI supports ZTNA in implementing granular, user- and context-aware authentication across different classes of users, devices, clouds and applications. DPI’s ability to identify traffic anomalies can also be used by ZTNA to identify cyberattacks and other threats on enterprise networks.

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2. Cloud native networks: gearing up for an agile future

   At one time, businesses were content deploying their own IT infrastructure, adding more hardware and appliances as transactions and operations grew. They then saw the limitations of proprietary hardware in scaling growth and saw how cloud and virtualization gave them the computing resources they needed to deploy and run their applications on a flexible, on-demand model. Efficiency gains however, are not the only push factors for the adoption of cloud-native networks.

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3. SASE: Conquering the ever expanding enterprise edge

   Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that allows enterprises to securely connect remote users and devices to the enterprise-wide area network(WAN). SASE essentially combines ‘network-as-a-service’ with ‘security-as-a-service’ to provide enterprises, especially those with a growing number of edge connections covering branches, mobile workers, remote workers and IoT devices, the means to monitor, manage and secure their enterprise networks and assets. If SASE will be the crucial architecture for securing and managing the ever-expanding enterprise perimeter, deep packet inspection is the logical complement, providing real-time intelligence at every point along the way.

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4. Harnessing intelligence at the core with DPI for vEPC

   The shift from an EPC to a vEPC opens up the possibility for networks to manage capacities as needed while scaling and customizing the network dynamically based on traffic conditions and application requirements. What’s the role of deep packet inspection (DPI) in creating these highly responsive, scalable and agile 4G networks? This article discusses the need for DPI-powered intelligence in the vEPC as DPI provides real-time traffic insights on applications, protocols, traffic attributes, malware and other data required to implement traffic management, security and content management policies, not only across the core but also throughout the network.

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5. Managing HetNets: How application awareness drives intelligent mobile data offloading decisions

   Mobile data offloading helps operators optimize network capacity, improve network performance, enhance service quality and provide ubiquitous connectivity. Deep packet inspection is key in enabling intelligent traffic offloading: It offers real-time identification of the underlying traffic — whether it is latency-sensitive, mission-critical or bandwidth-intensive — paving the way for enhanced network performance, and service quality.

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6. DPI supporting SASE for 5G security

   SASE is a secure gateway at the edge of a network, bundling network and security functions provided on-demand as a cloud service. DPI can augment the capacities of SASE in securing enterprise 5G networks. This article examines the need for highly reliable and seamless authentication of remote users and endpoints at the edge and explains how DPI in SASE provides the real-time traffic visibility and traffic filtering to enable this.

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7. From smart grids to tactile UX: How application awareness drives 5G service classes

   As applications evolve, so must networks. In 5G network slicing, application awareness plays a key role in shaping virtual instances or ‘slices’, enabling network operators to maintain network responsiveness and performance. How do traffic visibility and network intelligence provided by future-proof DPI software facilitate the management of network slices and what is the role of DPI in securing the applications and slices across today’s 5G networks?

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8. Reinstating cloud visibility with deep packet inspection

   Deep packet inspection software delivers cloud visibility by equipping analytics intermediaries with application awareness which can be used to select and forward cloud traffic to a wide range of monitoring, security and network management tools. For distributed applications hosted and delivered from different clouds, the analysis provided by R&S®PACE 2 ensures that no gaps are left unattended in managing and delivering critical applications. Likewise, R&S®PACE 2 enables further optimization of cloud security management by coupling inspection of traffic anomalies with application awareness.

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9. Shoring up SOAR with deep packet inspection

   Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) is an effective system for integrating and automating various security policies, tools and operations in ways that minimize human intervention and increase the cohesiveness of an enterprise’s threat response. This article examines how real-time identification of suspicious, malicious and anomalous flows and comprehensive analytics provided by deep packet inspection can be crucial for enhancing and enriching the functionalities of SOAR.

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10. Close-up in the cloud: How micro-segmentation benefits from DPI

    Micro-segmentation segregates networks into smaller VLANs or subnets that are accorded their own security functionalities to safeguard cloud applications from laterally moving threats that typically afflict virtual machines and containers in the cloud. The use of DPI in micro-segmentation can greatly aid in securing applications in the cloud or specifically distributed workloads hosted on virtual machines and containers.

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