The new modules include identity-based microsegmentation from Palo Alto Networks’ $150 million Aporeto acquisition.

Political campaigns face particularly tough cybersecurity challenges because they essentially operate as large, distributed enterprises with thousands of employees.

Ransomware is “one of the largest threats to the upcoming elections,” warned Microsoft’s Tom Burt.

The deal would give AMD in-house FPGA technology and boost its prowess in data center and mobile compute where it competes against rival Intel.

AWS announced its new edge computing infrastructure last year. But to date, neither company has said anything about AWS Wavelengths supporting VMware’s software stack.

Internet2 will deploy Cisco’s 8200 series routers that use Cisco Silicon One ASICs in 48 U.S. locations.

“This is really focused on knowing who and what is on the network,” Juniper Networks’ Kate Adam said.

“This is a widespread problem in the cloud,” Palo Alto Network’s Matt Chiodi said.

VMware rolled out its extended detection and response strategy at VMworld, but it’s been laying the foundation for XDR for more than a year.

“Every year on our birthday, we give back with a series of product announcements of things that we can do that make the internet as a whole better,” CEO

HPE started shipping its ProLiant DL380T server to U.S. customers through the secure supply chain initiative, and it plans to expand to the rest of its portfolio in 2021.

Cisco’s Liz Centoni said Portshift will help customers enable DevSecOps and build security constructs into cloud-native applications early in the lifecycle.

The security vendor has reportedly been mulling either a return to the public markets or a sale for more than a year.

Who will VMware buy next? “If I really answered that, I’d have to shoot you,” CEO Pat Gelsinger said.

The automation product is built on Python and other open source projects, which VMware’s Ajay Singh called “one of the most compelling aspects of SaltStack.”

VMware integrated Menlo Security technologies into its SASE platform and started talking about its extended detection and response strategy today at VMworld.

Awake CEO Rahul Kashyap recently bragged that his company’s network detection and response platform continues stealing customers from Arista’s arch-rival Cisco.

“Cloud is an operating model,” said Deepak Patil, SVP for cloud platforms and solutions at Dell Technologies. “It’s not a destination.”

XDR is a newish approach to threat detection and response that Gartner called a top security and risk management trend of 2020.

Chronicle, the security startup that spun off and then later re-merged with Google Cloud, today rolled out a threat detection tool called Detect.

Despite breaches costing companies millions of dollars, CISOs still have a tough time justifying security budgets to corporate boards.

“The threat actors aren’t solely after the modification of votes,” said Cisco Talos’ Matt Olney. “They’re after the collective faith in the electoral process and in Western democracy in

Sumo Logic’s platform provides monitoring and security analytics tools. In its IPO filing, the company estimates its market opportunity to be $49.3 billion.

Snowflake had 3,117 customers as of July 31, including seven of the Fortune 10 and 146 of the Fortune 500.