“What's missing and what we've added is more of the supply chain aspect and tying that all together,” Palo Alto Networks' Taylor Smith said.

"Oracle, Google Cloud, IBM, everybody, Alibaba even — those are all potential future public cloud partners for us," CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

“Don’t add to the fear, uncertainty, and doubt, instead, focus on what you can control,” Gartner Research VP Katell Thielemann wrote.

Nokia introduced Edge Network Controller, an application built within the Kubernetes environment for local network management and automation.

“​​The app world is evolving at a tremendously fast pace, but unfortunately the network world has become much more rigid,” CEO Shekar Ayyar said.

“About two-thirds of all breaches are caused by insiders, and typically when it matters is when someone's leaving the company,” Code42 CEO Joe Payne said.

“Zero trust has applicability not just in the government, but private sector companies need to start thinking about defending this way as well,” Splunk's Bill Wright said.

“We are very open and trying to be transparent and we believe [we are] one of the most transparent companies in the world,” Huawei USA CSO Andy Purdy said.

Organizations will realize the cloud value on one condition: using the cloud to build intimacy with customers, PwC's Jenny Koehler said.

“Cloud AI is a big differentiator for Juniper right now because we do have a clean foundation to work on,” compared to Cisco and Aruba, Juniper's Bob Friday said.

Deploying chaos engineering is “not just to see how reliable or resilient our system is, but also how secure it is when it's running in a degraded state,” Gartner's

The vendor claims its new network controller and software switches provide alternatives to Cisco DNA Center and Catalyst switches.

“What we're trying to do for our customers is commoditize data science, give them the opportunity to do data fusion, and ask any question they need,” CEO Corey Thuen

“We have a strong mutual interest in continuing to go win in the HCI space, and Dell is invested in our platform,” VMware SVP John Gilmartin said.

AT&T CSO Bill O’Hern warns the cybersecurity threat landscape is extremely intense now while “vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting is at an all-time high.”

“This is one of the fastest-growing software-as-a-service companies in history,” Lacework's co-CEO David Hatfield said.

“We see a lot of weak credentials and unpatched systems. It's the combination of those things that really drive susceptibility,” Black Kite CSO Bob Maley said.

“If you want to get all the people who are skilled to apply for your job, then your job has to account for all the people who are skilled,”

“When we talk about security on the platform and security for our community, our goal is to shift left in all aspects of security,” GitHub VP Jacob DePriest said.