Tom Gillis left VMware last month with several other executives under the cloud of the vendor's pending acquisition by Broadcom.

The vendor capped the year with its annual Ignite event that showcased its networking, cloud, endpoint, and application security services.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud announced new security services, product upgrades, and acquisitions in 2022.

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The cloud giant made the biggest fiscal splash with a whopping $5.4 billion deal to buy security powerhouse Mandiant.

CEO Nikesh Arora claims the common theme for its acquisitions is to buy a leader.

Security vendors have upgraded their attack surface management services, including Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft.

SVP Ankur Shah called this addition “a significant shift-left enhancement,” with Prisma Cloud now scanning all files.

Nikesh Arora believes most companies that have less than $10 billion in revenue should not have their own data centers.

“We give defenders the ability not only to see their exposures instantly but also to shut them down automatically,” CTO of Cortex Matt Kraning said.

CEO Karim Toubba noted the threat actor was able to gain access to “certain elements” of its customers’ information.

Last quarter, Cisco and Zscaler also announced deeper integration of Cisco SD-WAN and Zscaler’s security stack.

Amazon Security Lake centralizes and manages log and event data from AWS, more than 50 third-party, and customer data sources.

The vendor also announced its plans to acquire Cider Security for around $195 million in cash.

The Cider Security acquisition is reportedly worth $3 million; the DoD partnership "is one of the largest software deals in Palo Alto Networks’ history," CEO Nikesh Arora said.

The new set of firewalls are for small and large branches, campus locations, and data centers

The "results support the notion that CSPs are uniquely positioned to be the security provider for small businesses worldwide," Allot stated.

The partnerships aim to offer better visibility and user experience to simplify and secure hybrid work.

“It's our view that much of what is being discussed and marketed as XDR is nothing more than a rebranding of a SIEM," SVP Tom Gillis argues.

Duo Security's report showed accounts allowing web authentication rose 50% and a fivefold increase in usage since April 2019.

Lacework’s Polygraph Data platform brings multi-cloud runtime telemetry and high-context alerts into Google Cloud Chronicle Security Operations.

A 2019 paper from Google indicates that factoring 2048-bit RSA integers in eight hours needs 20 million noisy qubits.

Dell rolled out a suite of zero-trust services that integrate the vendor’s security expertise with Microsoft security tools.

The Mobile Lock feature embeds the Zimperium z9 mobile threat defense engine into the RSA Authenticator mobile application.