Investors bet big on zero trust; WattIQ works to curb consumption; and webscale providers threaten telecom's hold on 5G.

Investors have bet big on zero trust, pouring nearly $3 billion in funding over the past four years into the space.

Rubrik unveiled its Security Cloud; BT announced plans to cut carbon emissions; and Intel plans a mega lab.

Palo Alto's SOAR takes on ransomware risk; AT&T evolves its SASE model; and Cisco deals with COVID-19 related supply chain issues.

"My advice is that you start thinking about this new, evolving model as a mash-up of both zero trust and SASE," AT&T CSO Bill O'Hern said.

“Our customers are asking for managed secure access service edge, cloud, and threat detection and response capabilities,” Palo Alto Networks' Prem Iyer said.

Next-generation zero-trust network access makes sure that trust is not implicit, SVP Kumar Ramachandran said. “It's zero trust with zero exceptions.”

The new agreement will see AT&T provide its customers with a managed secure access service edge product that leverages the vendor’s Duo technology.

Fortinet announced three next-generation firewalls for campus, branch, and hybrid data center environments.

VMware and Cisco battled over segment wins, and Citrix doubled down on secure service edge and advanced security features.

The vendor is seeing more focus on and more investment in the concept of cyber resilience and technologies that bridge security and recovery.

Axis Security pivoted to SSE; security analyst are shifting to evangelists; and Palo Alto Networks doubles down on WFH security.

The new platform adds secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and digital experience monitoring to Axis' zero-trust network access platform.

Ericsson and Nokia pulled out of Russia; CISOs play a crucial role in zero-trust adoption.

Security service edge needs better intrinsic network security; 5G hype hits a phase of uncertainty; and CrowdStrike surfs Forrester's EDR wave.

Interpreting MITRE ATT&CK evaluations; the huge open source ecosystem poses a paradox of choice; and Crowdstrike and Mandiant partner on security.

CrowdStrike and Mandiant reportedly discussed the partnership before the Google-Mandiant deal.

The update introduces more than 300 new features and improvements to the vendor’s security operating system.

Docker secured $105 million in funding, and security should emphasize what you are protecting rather than how.

The service guards access to applications and services regardless of whether they're SaaS-based, are running in the cloud, or live on premises.

McAfee rebranded its SASE business as Skyhigh Security; AMD takes on Intel with its new CPU launch; IBM launched a crypto key management security service.

IBM’s key management services are in line with its data-centric, zero-trust approach, cloud security CTO Nataraj Nagaratnam said.

Skyhigh remains focused on the red hot security service edge market, where it retains a leadership position, according to Gartner.

The WLAN space remains Cisco's domain, and Cloudflare and CrowdStrike partner on security.