Silver Peak SD-WAN gained a boost from Aruba's ClearPass; T-Mobile touted a 5G lead; and a Cisco VPN bug avoided capture.

While Cisco says it isn’t aware of any instances in which attackers have exploited the vulnerability, a proof-of-concept exploit code is available.

“We need to rethink application security into what call cloud-native application security,” Snyk co-founder and President Guy Podjarny said.

“We have to acknowledge what’s happening right now around the globe where nation-state actors are using intelligence services to attack private-sector companies,” William Evanina said.

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

“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

AT&T has committed to be carbon neutral by 2035, and is expanding its Climate Change Analysis Tool coverage across the U.S. to build resilience.

Microsoft warned of election attacks; VMware aspires to join cool kids Kubernetes klique; and Ericsson sound the open RAN security alarm.

Researchers at Positive Technologies discovered the firewall vulnerabilities.

The vendors will integrate Snyk’s open source vulnerability detection into Trend Micro’s cloud security platform to help security operations teams better manage open source risk.

The pandemic fueled a cybersecurity push; Fortinet claimed SASE superiority; and Cisco squashed a critical WAN software bug.

In addition to the critical WAN software bug, Cisco also patched two high-severity flaws and a whopping 21 medium-severity vulnerabilities.

For CTI League members, the daily grind means preventing cyberattacks on hospitals and checking cyberthreat feeds for potential public health and safety dangers.

Election security took center stage at Black Hat, but not in the usual, who can hack a voting machine way.

“The amount of ransomware campaigns right now is just unbelievable,” said AT&T Cybersecurity’s Jaime Blasco. “And two trends are enabling this.”

The Linux Foundation says any OpenSSF specifications and projects developed will be vendor agnostic.

“Now that we’re all much more aware of the implication of the pandemic, we have to realize that a cyber pandemic can expand much faster than a biological one,”

One of the products, Aqua Enterprise, is essentially the company’s flagship cloud-native security product with several updates including VM support.

CEO Mike Hogan said its container application security testing service provides a more complete package than current offerings.

The Cloud Threat Landscape Report 2020 found that basic security oversight issues, including governance, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, remain the top risk factors.

The security vulnerabilities could have allowed attackers to gain remote access and execute commands without proper authentication. Four were cited as “critical.”

“The evolution of web applications has not gone unnoticed by attackers, and web defenders haven’t thought as much about it,” said Akamai CTO Patrick Sullivan.

The Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance alone has more than 1 million deployments globally.

With the Series A round, in addition to $6.5 million in seed funding, Orca plans to double its team and total business by the end of 2020.