The company claims the appliance is capable of simultaneously juggling millions of connections per second while securing large streams of data.

Dell bagged $2B with the sale of RSA; AT&T shared threat intelligence; and Orange teamed up with Dell on uCPE and VNFs.

It becomes increasingly important as operators rollout 5G networks and enterprises connect billions of new devices to these corporate networks.

The appliances will come in a variety of form factors and run multiple virtualized services, like SD-WAN and security, on a single device.

The companies announced the deal a week before the annual RSA mega-cybersecurity conference kicks off in San Francisco.

This anonymized data from the operators’ security operations centers and investigations is then pooled using AT&T’s OTX platform.

Meanwhile, Arista’s Q4 revenue declined, and took a big hit from cloud and service providers sales.

Double-digit declines in service provider sales continue to plague Cisco earnings. The vendor reported an 11% drop in service provider revenue in the second quarter of its fiscal 2020.

Mavenir won 5G deals in Japan and Germany; the SASE space race is heating up; and Fortinet and Adtran teamed up to woo SD-WAN providers.

The event was set to get underway on Feb. 24, but a wave of cancellations by network operators and vendors became too much for the event organizers to overcome.

“We believe there is a space race right now for SASE,” CEO Amit Bareket said. “Perimeter 81 is positioned very strongly to win it.”

The bug was in its authentication policy and allowed an attacker unauthorized access to information without needing an authorized token.

The firewall and SD-WAN vendor claims by adding support for Amdoc's orchestration layer, it can eliminate operational hurdles for service providers and reach new customers.

Of the more than 8.5 billion records breached in 2019, 7 billion were due to misconfigurations.

MWC Barcelona hit by Coronavirus cancellations; Netskope scored $340M and got SASE; and Snowflake investors dumped $479M in new funding round.

GSMA, the event organizer, claims the event will still get underway in less than two weeks, but adds that it is continuing to monitor the situation and will adapt

The security company scored a new $340 million investment, which puts Netskope at a $3 billion valuation.

McAfee hires new CEO, mulls sale or IPO; VMware ‘rebalances’ jobs following 12-month buying spree; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Fortinet celebrated a strong Q4 by announcing a partnership with colocation provider Equinix and launching its smallest SD-WAN appliance.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to activate the affected device's Telnet service over an open transmission control protocol port and gain unauthorized access.

Huawei’s lawsuit accuses the U.S. carrier of illegally using 12 of its patents in Verizon networks.

Cisco patched zero-day vulnerabilities in millions of devices; the White House backed US 5G plan; and IBM CTO called open source vital to edge success.

Nick Reed said a delay of up to five years could result if it has to replace Huawei equipment that is already installed across its European footprint.

If exploited, the bugs would allow an attacker to eavesdrop on voice and video calls and steal corporate data flowing through the network’s switches and routers.