It’s not enough to control access to the data, the SSE platform needs to protect the data itself, Skyhigh CEO Gee Rittenhouse 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.

“Security is absolutely No. 1” in customer conversations, VMware SVP Tom Gillis said. “The No. 1 thing they want to hear about it: Is my workload secure?”

“Cybersecurity is always a risk decision and insurance is a risk decision. This really crosses that intersection,” said Ann Johnson, who leads Microsoft’s security business.

“We are not a security company, but we are an infrastructure company that will build in and continue to add security features into our Nutanix Cloud platform,” CEO Rajiv

For all of SASE's promises, there is still a considerable amount of confusion as to how it fits into the broader security stack, AT&T Security's Rupesh Chokshi said.

New threat reports from Trend Micro, McAfee, and Menlo Security put mobile security in sharp focus and indicate that IoT devices and industrial systems are increasingly at risk.

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.

I expect a handful of top trends and threats to dominate the discourse. And like just about everything else over the past 12 months, many of these have been

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.

“A lot of organizations had seemingly good processes and controls in place pre-pandemic, but the disruption has just flipped a lot of organizations on their head,” AT&T Cybersecurity's Todd

"Openness allows you to have visibility and it allows you to put your defense and your security where you see the threats might be coming,” Dish Network's Marc Rouanne

Over the past 14 years SD-WAN has evolved from wrangling WAN links to including security, quality of service, and artificial intelligence.

Since his inauguration, President Biden’s tapped several cybersecurity veterans to fill posts that been eliminated under the Trump administration and earmarked about $10 billion dollars for various cybersecurity initiatives.

Check out this episode to learn about secure access service edge, or SASE — from what SASE is to the current SASE market.

CISOs can learn from the pandemic, beef up their companies’ security posture and employees’ security readiness, and be ready for the next big event.

The SDxCentral research team dug into dozens of network virtualization customer case studies and use cases. We found one common characteristic emerging as a driver for many customer deployments: