“In the event when you’re hunting down a threat, it can be a really long, cold winter between discovery and remediation if you lack visibility,” Cisco SVP Al Huger

Positive Technologies disclosed a vulnerability affecting Intel processor families; T-Mobile mid-band 5G covers 200M people; and Ericsson revealed an SMO platform.

The flaw allows an attacker to extract encryption keys from devices running Intel’s Apollo Lake- and Gemini Lake-based Pentium, Celeron, and Atom processors.

Gartner named the top firewall providers; Verizon and AT&T delayed the launch of 5G on C-band spectrum; and AMD released its Milan-X CPUs and Instinct MI200 AI accelerators.

“We offer all our security features baked into the cloud, so we don’t make the customers choose between cost and security,” Oracle VP of Software Bala Chandran said.

Qualys determined that the 36 most prevalent ransomware families used about 110 CVEs. And all of them have patches available for the past several years.

Malware infection rates in North America's fixed networks have also declined throughout the course of 2021 to 2.5%, but still remain well above the low point of 1.1% in

Under the agreement, Siemens will sell its Ruggedcom networking and security platforms with Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewalls built in.

“The market very obviously moved in the direction of OT security. And Dragos has been pretty far out in front of our competitors,” CEO Robert M. Lee said.

Ransomware “is the No. 1 board topic,” CEO Kevin Mandia said during his opening keynote at Mandiant's Cyber Defense Summit event.

Marvell released its first 5-nm switch silicon and DPUS; VMware said it's a critical partner for 5G operators; and AT&T's CSO emphasized the value of effective authentication.

VMware boosted its cloud-native security capabilities at VMworld with a new API security product and posture management services across Kubernetes clusters.

Cisco’s security business only grew 1% compared to a year ago, and that represents much slower growth compared to its competitors like Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet.

The agency “strongly encourages” all of the cloud database customers to roll and regenerate their certificate keys and review Microsoft’s guidance on securing data.

Wiz, a newly minted cybersecurity unicorn founded by the team that built Microsoft Azure’s cloud security stack, disclosed the “unprecedented breach.”

Microsoft bought RiskIQ; Sysdig acquired Apolicy; and the US Defense Department canceled its $10B JEDI contract with Microsoft.

CISA director Jen Easterly announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) at Black Hat 2021.

Arista posted strong Q2 earnings; Cisco patched a firewall vulnerability; and 86% of organizations expect a serious cyberattack.

The vulnerability exploits a flaw in the FDM On-Box’s REST API, which enabled attackers to run arbitrary code on Cisco Firepower firewalls.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google ate up most of the Q2 cloud market; McAfee built its own ZTNA; and Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange platform is now available.

“Some of the key features offered are continuous discovery and inventory of APIs, ML-powered API and web protection, and real-time API vulnerability detection,” Traceable CMO Ashish Kuthiali said.

The launch continues the vendor's Connected Security strategy that involves enforcing security policies at every connection point across the network: switches, firewalls, routers, public and private cloud, and endpoints.

SolarWinds released patched a critical bug; SonicWall warned of an “imminent” ransomware campaign; and Bharti Airtel expanded its relationship with Cisco.

“Organizations that fail to take appropriate actions to mitigate these vulnerabilities are at imminent risk of a targeted ransomware attack,” the security alert said.