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Chad Kime

Chad Kime combines an electrical engineering education, an MBA, and a CompTIA Network+ certification to communicate technical concepts in plain English. With 20+ years of marketing, eDiscovery, IT, and project management, Chad values practicality over idealism. Chad spent five years providing technical writing consulting for managed IT security providers and penetration testing companies before switching to writing about cybersecurity best practices, technologies, and tools.

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5 Web Application Firewall Case Studies

Web Application Firewalls strengthen the security performance of websites. Data breaches are expensive and can do irreversible damage to businesses. WAFs improve a company’s...
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Why is Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) Important?

A firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) provides overarching network access protection, control, and monitoring across modern IT infrastructures. The benefits of FWaaS include cloud speed, flexible cloud scaling,...
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Guide to How Firewall-as-a-Service Works: Learn the Basics

Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) is a cloud-based firewall security system that provides network access protection, control, and monitoring for a company’s next-generation firewall. The FWaas offers...
Cybersecurity protecting data in a network.

What is Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS)?

Firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) solutions promise to improve foundational firewall technology to address the security needs of a modern IT network.  FWaaS incorporates many of the features...
Cybersecurity protecting data in a network.

6 Top Firewall-as-a-Service Providers

Firewall as a service (FWaaS) promises to extend the capabilities of next-generation firewall (NGFW) and unified threat management (UTM) solutions across a modern IT...
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NetApp: FlexPod XCS Review

The hardware that makes up a traditional data center often consists of the solutions that provide the best value at the time of purchase....
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Seagate: Lyve Cloud Review

As more enterprises attempt to take advantage of the potential cost savings of the cloud, some have been disappointed. The largest data producers sometimes...
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Dell Technologies: Streaming Data Platform Review

To realize the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT), companies cannot continue to use legacy technologies. Legacy data centers process discrete files and...
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IBM: Storage as a Service Review

IBM’s Storage as a Service (STaaS) solution delivers the flexibility of cloud storage to on-premises and hybrid cloud data centers.  IBM will deliver, install, and...
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IBM Cloud Foundry Review

IBM’s Cloud Foundry solution provides a cloud-native platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to help developers deploy quickly, scale effortlessly, and avoid managing infrastructure. Customers don’t need to...