“We are going to be augmenting our [secure access service edge] portfolio working with other partners," T-Mobile's Mishka Dehgan said.

Oracle says it may have found a solution for a gap it sees in cloud network security. How Zero-Trust Packet Routing Platform works.

The IT networking industry isn’t the same as it was a few short years ago and there is more change on the horizon, Forrester reports.

Both attackers and regulators have paid increasing attention to operational technology security, which has led to growth and opportunity for Dragos.

“Broadcom could choose VMware (SD-WAN) and combine it with Symantec to go after the single-vendor opportunity,” Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said.

Gartner identified Palo Alto Networks as the only leader, and Cato Networks, Versa Networks and Fortinet as challengers in its Magic Quadrant report.

The firm also named VMware and Forcepoint as strong performers and Juniper, HPE, Cisco and Barracuda as contenders in the report.

Gartner's new Hype Cycle categorized 19 zero-trust networking technologies, including secure access service edge, into five maturity stages.

"5G is going to open up a whole new world of possibilities for IoT, but it's also going to create new security challenges," said Forrester's John Kindervag

"Zero trust and platform are intertwined. If you want to have an enterprise zero trust, you need to go to a platform-centric approach,” Anand Oswal argues.

Secure access service edge certification courses are available and some popular cybersecurity certifications have incorporated SASE elements.

If organizations don’t adapt and adopt zero trust, “they probably will be going out of business in this digital world,” PwC's Prakash Venkata argued.

AT&T recently expanded its enterprise work with Cisco, which includes increased security for SD-WAN services

It remains to be seen whether Zscaler's "Switzerland" approach will continue to be successful in the long term, Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said.

Advice for how to move from a legacy VPN architecture to a more modern zero-trust network access model.

Zscaler leads the virtual network security market with 5% more market share than No. 2 Akamai and No. 3 Palo Alto Networks, according to Dell'Oro.

CEO Antonio Neri praised the vendor's Intelligent Edge business as one of the main drivers of company growth during the most recent quarter.

Dell Technologies World focused on four potentially world-changing technologies: generative artificial intelligence, edge, 5G and multi-cloud.

“It's not a flip-a-switch and you are now zero trust,” Deepen Desai said.

What would happen if an organization that implemented zero trust was eventually breached?

Security Director Jenny Brinkley also discussed if organizations should use the term "zero trust" in security training.

In the world of identity, we have always had to juggle three objectives – compliance, convenience and security. We will need AI to do this effectively.

Keeping identities and authentication safe from bad actors is fast becoming a data problem for artificial intelligence and machine learning.

These AI-driven phishing campaigns are harder to identify and counter, as they can convincingly imitate legitimate communications, the vendor noted.