“Interest in zero trust has exploded due to the numerous high-profile security attacks in the recent past," analyst Mauricio Sanchez said.

Zscaler extended its zero-trust security to public cloud workloads; Intel Labs established a new research center; and Liqid raised $100M.

The new cloud-delivered service extends Zscaler’s secure internet and web gateway and its private app segmentation service to public cloud workloads.

Aruba launched its EdgeConnect Microbranch platform; automation doubles the performance of SecOps programs; and Aryaka unveiled its SASE platform.

Organizations that claimed to have mature implementations of zero trust and SASE were 35% more likely to report strong security operations.

"It seems appropriate that as we were getting people moving from Palo Alto [Networks], that the appropriate place for them to move was Oahu," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said.

Qualcomm articulated a strategy to push its chipset platform into IoT; Fortinet integrated its SD-WAN with Azure vWAN; and Arista expanded its X-series switch family.

Embracing zero trust means ending the game of software-threat whack-a-mole, Palo Alto Networks' founder and CTO Nir Zuk said.

CEO Martin Roesch named Vectra AI, Darktrace, and ExtraHop as Netography’s competitors.

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.

“It becomes very important to have complete or comprehensive zero trust across the enterprise,” Palo Alto Networks CPO Lee Klarich said.

While Fortinet expects to maintain strong revenue growth going into the fourth quarter, CFO Keith Jensen warned supply chain constraints could slow the vendor's momentum.

While other vendors in the emerging XDR space debate a platform versus open or partner approach, IBM says it remains committed to providing both.

Verizon plans to offer Fortinet’s SD-WAN platform; AMD reported $4.3B in Q3 revenue; and the Linkerd 2.11 update extends zero-trust security to Kubernetes environments.

This is a "milestone" for the platform as "now you can use Linkerd to control which types of communication are available or are possible on your cluster,” CEO William

Cisco released its most powerful routing silicon; Devo raised $250 million; and VMware plans to roll a RIC into its Telco Cloud Platform.

CloudSecure continues Illumio’s zero-trust philosophy: “It’s just applying different techniques,” CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

Cohesity released services to fight sophisticated ransomware attacks; Promiso added AIOps-enhanced networking to its platform; and ESG reporting requires more regulation.

The update automates network optimization and security using machine learning and zero-trust principles, Prosimo's Mani Ganesan explained.

Carrier tech executives said more work needs to be done on 5G; Windstream added VMware's SASE to its portfolio; and data center immersion cooling is on the rise.

“We're the first vendor to integrate silicon into the device itself to perform not only Ethernet switch function, but those layer 4-7 functionalities," Aruba's John Gray said.

Pica8 raised $20 million in Series C funding; VMware remains a supporter of the O-RAN Alliance; and Telefónica expanded its relationship with Fortinet.

“Looking at our networking and data center investments alone, we have the largest network with the lowest latency of any cloud provider,” Google's Sundar Pichai said.

“This Cybersecurity Action Team marshals the experts from across Google to form the world’s premier security advisory team,” Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables said.