The vendor plans to integrate Bitglass into its fledgling SASE platform.

Akamai bought Guardicore for $600 million; Snyk's Series F funding bumped the company's valuation to $8.5 billion; and F5 acquired Threat Stack.

“We believe the future of work is definitively going to be hybrid, where people are going to work in mixed mode,” Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel said.

VMware and Nvidia partnered to deploy AI workloads on Kubernetes; VMware boosted cloud-native security; and Dell extended its cloud partnership with VMware.

The vendor's Secure Private Access provides conditional access to applications based on factors including identity, location, and device.

“We’re hopeful that it will help shape the industry’s thinking about what does it mean to be a trusted provider,” Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer Harvey Jang said.

"We believe Akamai will be able to provide the most effective way to combat ransomware on the market today,” CEO Tom Leighton said.

Peplink, Nuage, Cradlepoint, Barracuda, FatPipe, and Riverbed ranked among the worst in Gartner’s latest WAN Edge Infrastructure report.

AT&T pushes software development; Dell Technologies is looking to bring AIOps to its portfolio; and Nutanix announced new security capabilities.

Cisco's security business grew 1% since last year; IDC expects annual cloud revenue will reach $300B in 2025; and Nokia announced FP5-based appliances.

Cisco’s security business only grew 1% compared to a year ago, and that represents much slower growth compared to its competitors like Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet.

SASE is a point of confusion for some IT decision-makers; adopting zero trust is a major way to avoid paying ransoms; and Comcast Business acquired Masergy.

“The more you can rely on not paying the ransom, the more that's going to basically take the economic incentive away” from the ransomware groups, Veritas' Simon Jelley said.

EDR “went from some distant technological thing not many folks were looking at or buying … to now being the primary tool to deal with the threats,” Gartner VP

Ciena will acquire AT&T’s Vyatta virtual routing and switching technology; HPE's Aruba grew 27% year over year; and Microsoft hired Charlie Bell.

Cisco invests in hybrid work technologies; Cisco's Q2 software sales topped $4B; and campus switching enters a new era of growth.

Synopsys uses AI to design faster chips using fewer resources; Forrester said Zscaler has the largest ZTNA market presence; and Cradlepoint added 5G modems to its routers.

Zscaler has the largest ZTNA market presence, according to Forrester, and it is also the only vendor that doesn’t have any “needs improvement” areas on its scorecard.

The new blueprints offer enterprises a cookie-cutter approach to implementing Zscaler's SASE platform that targets key business objectives like remote and hybrid work.

“This was not a sophisticated attack; this was not a zero day. T-Mobile left a gate wide open for attackers, and attackers just had to find the gate,” Forrester

Fresh off its $7.5 billion valuation, the cybersecurity unicorn built a cloud-delivered firewall and integrated recent acquisitions for new remote browser isolation and SaaS security posture management.

Microsoft bought RiskIQ; Sysdig acquired Apolicy; and the US Defense Department canceled its $10B JEDI contract with Microsoft.

The acquisition is about more than SD-WAN, it's about laying the groundwork for a SASE platform, Extreme Networks' Nabil Bukhari said.

SASE has reached 5% to 20% of market penetration among its target audience in the nearly two years since its inception.