As corporations take on more responsibility in the fight against climate change, more and more eyes are watching them.

“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.

While some scams are new takes on old tricks, other cyberthreats are specific to the technologies that make the metaverse work like blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and NFTs.

“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.

"This bill includes important sustainability provisions for clean, renewable energy ... but it doesn’t go far enough,” ITRenew CEO Aidin Aghamiri said.

“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.

“I ultimately believe that our destiny is to be a major player in the larger category called security operations,” Exabeam CEO Michael DeCesare 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.

SDxCentral sat down (virtually) with Kiersten Todt, a former cybersecurity advisor to President Obama and current managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

“The bottom line is that without automation, sudden increases in cloud workloads leads to a dramatic growth in security incidents,” Palo Alto Networks’ Matthew Chiodi said.

The application security startup ended 2020 with more than $350 million in new funding, which pushed its valuation to $2.6 billion, and recorded a 200% year-over-year revenue increase.

One of the early appointments by the new administration was that of David Recordon as director of technology in the White House’s Office of Management and Administration. Recordon has

Even if breaking up big tech isn't on Biden's agenda that doesn't mean his party or those he installs in key government agencies won't make it theirs.

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.

The open source community is looking to build positive outcomes on some of the most troubling aspects of the past year.

The road to recovery calls for cooperation over competition to innovate at the speed of technology – in other words, an open source strategy.

A growing number of cybersecurity vendors are realizing that open source can be a powerful tool for protecting customers and staying ahead of attackers.

The industry group recently launched an initiative to develop telecommunications supply chain security standards and programs.

Open source is making an impact on the software layer of 5G networks, but the vision for open source networking is much more grandiose.

Schrödinger’s cat or stone soup, pick your favorite ONAP analogy.

A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.

DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV.

Companies are rebranding their SDN products as SD-WAN, dynamic networking, agile networking, or cloud-native network to avoid being part of the SDN hype.

The analyst firm also predicts that by 2023 more than 90 percent of WAN edge infrastructure initiatives will be based on SD-WAN.