“Our teams have to be representative of those we serve, and that’s one of the biggest opportunities we have in this industry,” said Cisco’s Dug Song.

Palo Alto Networks beat Cisco; Verizon pushed Nokia out; HPE geared up for a Cisco fight; and Google irked IBM with Istio.

SonicWall’s mid-year threat report found a 20% jump in ransomware globally in the first half of 2020 compared to mid-year 2019, with a staggering 109% spike in the U.S.

“Now that we’re all much more aware of the implication of the pandemic, we have to realize that a cyber pandemic can expand much faster than a biological one,”

Verizon integrates IBM's enterprise legacy for IoT; counterfeit Cisco switches were uncovered; and Dell looked to spinoff VMware’s future.

Cisco has a long history of battling counterfeiting of its hardware and outright theft of its software.

The Telco Security Alliance investigated threat actors taking advantage of the pandemic to launch campaigns against businesses and government agencies globally.

Among organizations using attack-specific playbooks, only 45% have plans for ransomware attacks.

Nokia won a $450M 5G deal with Taiwan Mobile; Facebook joined the Confidential Computing Group; and cryptojackers mined for Monero.

The group, which formed nine months ago, has grown 60% since then and added 10 new members in the last five months.

“There have been some customers that have slightly pushed back their plans, but by and large it’s not a big impact,” Nokia's Mark Atkinson said.

Revenues during the quarter reached $894 million, up 3.4% year over year, exceeding investor expectations by $4.6 million.

“I know it’s an extremely overused term in security awareness, but gamification is extremely important,” Barracuda Networks’ Dennis Dillman said.

The security vulnerabilities could have allowed attackers to gain remote access and execute commands without proper authentication. Four were cited as “critical.”

'This is a big step in removing the delineation between private and public networks,' analyst Zeus Kerravala said

“The evolution of web applications has not gone unnoticed by attackers, and web defenders haven’t thought as much about it,” said Akamai CTO Patrick Sullivan.

Mist serves as the heart of Juniper’s AI-driven enterprise strategy. And Mavis is the brain.

The Kubernetes aspect allows users to attach and configure Kubernetes clusters inside or outside of Azure.

VMware shared its top 3 security priorities; Huawei played the victim; and Cradlepoint partnered with AT&T.

Irrespective of its many challenges, survival does not inspire confidence, and companies are generally reticent to use it as a baseline for performance.

Priority No. 1 is to continue consolidating endpoint protection and cloud workload protection capabilities onto its platform.

The new feature lets application teams build software-defined perimeters around individual application instances.

Three reports show cyberattacks continue to mutate along with COVID-19, and they indicate that businesses aren’t as secure as they think.

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance alone has more than 1 million deployments globally.