Mandiant talks security trends; AT&T expands edge zones; and Gartner gives the metaverse until 2029 to fully arrive.

“We can get a diverse workforce if we train a diverse workforce,” Cisco's Laura Quintana said.

Zero-day exploitation is “at a very heightened level,” Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia said.

Microsoft previewed Cloud Security Posture Management as part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, its cloud-native application protection platform portfolio.

Google claims financial, Web3, health care, and medical institutions can benefit from its new Confidential Space.

Those strategies are based on the findings and insights from this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, VP Martin Kessler said.

The suite’s capabilities include access to cloud-scale data, curated detections, and automated response to common security threats such as phishing and malware.

Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia touted combined with Google, they can become the hub and brain for the endpoint telemetry from various security vendors.

From June to November 2021, Visa saw a 176% increase in physical skimming devices over the previous 12-month period.

The nomination came after Rubrik revealed a new integration with Microsoft Sentinel to providing data risk insights.

Zscaler's latest report found 80% of the surveyed organizations are in the process of adopting zero-trust strategies this year.

The Australian federal government blames Optus for the breach, and has flagged an overhaul of privacy rules and higher fines.

TELUS will use Palo Alto Networks’ cloud workload protection platforms for its cloud-native network functions.

Cisco's Talos team finds social engineering becoming a more prominent part of the attack lifecycle.

"When MFA is implemented using weaker factors, attackers can try to bypass MFA," Okta's Sumit Bahl said.

Aqua launches a software supply chain security solution; CrowdStrike introduces a hybrid XDR; and Salesforce announced a carbon credit market.

Gartner last year named Reposify one of the emerging vendors in the external attack surface management category.

Palo Alto Networks SVP Ankur Shah noted more customers are asking about SBOM, but “we're still in the early days."

The vendor's Falcon Insight XDR also integrate telemetry with third-party vendors, which now include Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks.

A software bill of materials is "a prerequisite to effective security and certainly not a full solution," CISA's Eric Goldstein said.

The new ToDo and Remediation Guru features are built into the Sysdig Secure platform.

Secure access service edge is "the No. 1 project in every large-scale company," Chief Business Officer Amit Singh said.

The vendor said it wants “all individuals to reach their full potential in large part by supporting women in their professions.”

Despite it being now part of Google Cloud, “Mandiant is not going away – in fact, it’s getting stronger,” Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia said.