Juniper Networks is looking to push even more network management to the cloud, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

“When you think of the future, you can extrapolate that whoever has the best artificial intelligence wins,” Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan said.

The firm found 46% of telecom CEOs think their company will not be economically viable in 10 years if they continue down their current operating path.

"Nobody can just walk into a building and connect to the network," Nile VP Austin Hawthorne said.

Enterprises save resources when "the tedious monitoring and management of vulnerabilities is done automatically," Swimlane's Cody Cornell said.

Telcos are high-target entities for ransomware and security teams will need to prioritize cyberresilience in their business strategy.

Analyst Andrew Lerner reflected on the 2022 secure access service edge market and gave his predictions heading into the new year.

The work builds on its growing Azure for Operators platform that initially began in late 2020.

With around 70 suppliers competing for market share, Gartner said the SD-WAN market was “mainstream and maturing” in 2022.

This shift is a cultural change within the I&O organization. "It is a change in thinking and an evolution," Gartner's Jeffrey Hewitt said.

Claude Mandy dove into how to navigate zero-trust deployments for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-clouds.

The tool is focused on reducing energy use, monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and recommending direct carbon footprint reduction strategies.

The Trident 4-X11C chip is "all about security in the enterprise," Broadcom Director of Product Marketing Fred Olsson told SDxCentral.

Nvidia, Dell Technologies, and VMware introduced a combined data center offering that Nvidia's Kevin Deierling said is "a huge moment for enterprise computing."

Many of the security tools and best practices that worked in the data center "cannot protect your cloud environment," Snyk's Josh Stella said.

"The data family left the four walls, and there's no moat around there," says Skyhigh Security Chief Product Officer Anand Ramanathan. In this Q&A CEO Gee Rittenhouse and Ramanathan

"We want to bring clarity on the open source side into what's happening in your environments," whether that's good news or bad, Cisco's Stephen Augustus said.

Telcos should transform "from their role as purveyors of connectivity to a broader role of connected service providers," IBM VP Marisa Viveros said.

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

Forrester said Google Cloud's weaknesses include its lack of a low-code development environment and minimal support for edge computing.

Both new modules come as CISOs look to consolidate security tools and converge network, endpoint, data, and workload security and telemetry.

“XDR is a term that gets thrown around and really badly abused by the industry because it’s a hot topic,” CrowdStrike CTO Mike Sentonas said.

VMware also published new threat intelligence, which highlights the need for security teams to extend their detection and prevention capabilities beyond the firewall to cover East-West traffic, Gillis said.

As remote workers return to the office, expect to see enterprise refocus on SD-WAN and SASE vendors that prioritize sensitive data discovery and monitoring as well as multi-edge applications.