The vendor revealed the price tags of its two recent acquisitions — about $232 million for Dig Security and about $435 million for Talon Cyber Security.

VMware's Abe Ankumah explained that deployment simplicity makes the partnership unique.

The vendor also introduced five new next-generation firewalls, expanding its portfolio to include more use cases such as 5G and operational technology.

"We actually have a roadmap to continue to add those [secure access service edge] capabilities and features throughout next year,” SVP Dan DeBacker said.

Talon Cyber Security, a 2.5-year-old Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup, has raised $143 million over three funding rounds.

"Gone are the days of driving a truck out," Red Hat's Richard Henshall said, as companies have scaled their far-edge devices into the hundreds or thousands.

CEO Ken Xie anticipates limited near-term growth in the secure networking market for the next few quarters.

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“My advice to IT pros is ... if you're doing things today that aren't really core to your resume, stop doing them," ZK Research's Zeus Kerravala said.

Fortinet's new secure access service edge appliance features its Security Processor 5 custom ASIC for processing acceleration and performance boost.

CEO Mike Sievert also stated the carrier's private wireless business "is quietly serving customers."

It continues to target up to 5 million fixed-wireless access customers by 2025, with CEO Hans Vestberg stating the network is ready “for way more.”

The new offering aims to address limitations of traditional LAN architectures by delivering integrated switching, routing, security and network services.

The Juniper Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture is designed to integrate unified security management with advanced routing and artificial-intelligence-powered threat prevention. Juniper builds new security architecture for distributed data

The report also found retailers identified distributed denial of service as their top cybersecurity concern.

Product Manager Annika Garbers touted the vendor's approach meets the market demand for simplicity, cost-effectiveness and unified management.

The vendor will continue supporting third-party SD-WAN products for multivendor secure access service edge, Check Point VP Amit Bareket said.

The trio headlined a complex proof of concept that could help multinational enterprises seamlessly connect and manage disparate data and networks.

For the second month in a row, a Cisco acquisition topped the list of Money Moves. Databricks also made a splash.

The integration will provide a single-vendor secure access service edge product to Deutsche Telekom enterprise customers.

Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Versa Networks and VMware are among the MEF SASE certification beta program participants.

Under the hood at Cloudflare and behind the scenes at Palo Alto lead our Top 10 list for September. There's also lots of Cisco, VMware and some HPE.

Shlomo Kramer said many network security vendors are struggling with the transition from appliance form factor to the cloud-centric approach of SASE.

T-Mobile is helping secure enterprise 5G networks with a SIM card-based SASE system in partnership with Versa and a network-slice security platform.