"Networking without security doesn't make any sense, and those two stacks are actually getting much more converged now than ever before,” Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel said.

“If you look at ransomware, it's a business, it's financially motivated,” CSW CEO Aaron Sandeen said.

“Most companies under 1000 people really just need a fractional CISO, they don't need a full-time CISO nor can they afford one,” Thrive CTO Michael Gray said.

The new cloud-native firewall is "fully operated, fully made as-a-service by Oracle," Oracle Cloud Infrastructure SVP Mahesh Thiagarajan said.

CrowdStrike’s introduced a centralized dashboard for both Falcon Horizon and Falcon cloud workload protection modules for its cloud security portfolio.

“This great burnout has already been happening, and it's just come to a cataclysm,” Arctic Wolf VP Ian McShane said.

Over the past two years, Comcast Business saw DDoS-extortion ransomware attacks increase 125%.

Forrester analysts expect the new threat risk assessment will drive cloud security improvements.

Cisco's services revenue grew to over $3.3 billion, about a third of its quarterly revenue for the second fiscal quarter of 2022.

Visa has spent more than $9 billion on boosting cybersecurity and reducing fraud over the past five years.

The partnership with Microsoft “is going strong … That's not something that's changed and that's not going to change,” Mandiant CTO Marshall Heilman said.

For security vendors, evangelists can make sure their products are aligned with customers' needs and demands.

A CISO needs to make sure the board understand the threat environment and implications of a significant breach, Veeam CISO Gil Vega said.

Even though more EDR vendors are joining the XDR wave, “this is at odds with client needs,” Forrester analyst Allie Mellen argues.

"If we could tell you what product was best ... we would, but we've come to the realization that we can't," MITRE's Jamie Williams said.

Ninety of the Fortune 100 companies are running the NSX platform as their SDN services, VMware SVP Tom Gillis claims.

“The misunderstanding of zero trust is that it is a binary thing — either you're doing it or you're not doing it — that's not true,” John Kindervag said.

When punishing CISOs, “you're blaming the victims and not focusing on the actual people doing the criminal activity,” ON2IT SVP John Kindervag said.

The two software giants officially merged in October 2021 and rebranded as Trellix this January.

Lapsus$ group paid employees of the targeted companies or their partners to gain access and join incident response calls, Microsoft found.

Identifying choke points "is a way that we can actually hit [adversaries] with a pain point by disrupting their model,” Fortinet's Derek Manky said.

More than 60% of surveyed IT professionals said alert fatigue has contributed to turnover or internal friction, Orca Security’s report found.

The new reporting requirements come as President Joe Biden warned about an increase in Russia-based cyberattacks on U.S. enterprises.

“Google is taking advantage of that [cloud-delivered security] shift, and so is Microsoft, and so eventually will AWS," Gartner's Neil MacDonald said.