Verizon boosted 5G security; VMware, NSF offered up a $6M sustainable IT prize; and Huawei’s global footprint shrank.

Cisco Security exec sang a SASE security tune; AT&T talked open source; and Netskope, VMware, and CrowdStrike shared threat information.

The operator trialed quantum key distribution in the Washington, D.C. area, and it plans to be one of the first carriers to pilot the technology in the U.S.

AT&T presents a contradictory social justice position, Amazon Braket attempts to quell quantum computing costs, and Google has added free COVID-19 datasets.

Braket allows users to test quantum algorithms on top of simulated quantum computers running on AWS computing resources.

The vendor reported that 47% of its global electricity consumption last year was generated from renewable sources, nearly matching the 55% goal it set out to achieve by 2025.

Illumio Edge is managed in the cloud and uses a lightweight agent on endpoints — either an Illumio agent or customers can use an existing CrowdStrike Falcon agent.

CEO Arvind Krishna made the pledge in a letter to the U.S. Congress. It’s one of three policy areas he wants to see Congress focus on “in pursuit of

AT&T selected Stankey as its new CEO; Google to slow hiring; Cisco vowed no job cuts; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft stepped up their Earth Day commitments, promising everything from 100% product return to a blockchain-powered, plastic currency.

That challenge will rely heavily on IBM’s Red Hat business unit, which also received a new leader.

“Vulnerability management, configuration management, patch management — those things should still be top of mind for CISOs,” Splunk’s Monzy Merza said. “[Security] hygiene can be sexy.”

Google showed love for Intel’s security transparency; VMware gained an extra boost with cloud security layer; and Nokia’s cloud aspirations soared

The U.S. government’s quantum research budget, which addresses a national security issue, is $30 million, or just 0.0006% of the federal budget.

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The quantum computing system will be the single largest universal quantum system made available for external access in the industry.

The cloud giant announced partnerships with SES, Viasat, and Intelsat to bring Azure to remote customers.

IBM predicts that due to the rate of progress in quantum computing data protected by current asymmetric encryption methods could become insecure within the next 10 to 30 years.

Access to quantum computing systems are likely to be through cloud connections because of the prohibitive cost of organizations having their own systems and thus having to rely on

CrowdStrike says revenue hit $249.8 million for fiscal 2019, and it says Amazon Web Services is running its security platform on “hundreds of thousands of AWS workstations and servers.”

A deep dive by MTN Consulting finds that Microsoft has made great progress reorienting itself around Azure and subscription services.

Falcon for Mobile identifies threats on mobile devices and provides visibility into situations where there is potentially dangerous access to corporate data.

There are two strategic elements to the platform: One is that Dell considers mid-market security to be an underserved market. The other is that endpoints are particularly vulnerable.

Qualcomm will use the fund to invest in startups building AI for autonomous cars, robotics, and machine learning platforms.