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.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google ate up most of the Q2 cloud market; McAfee built its own ZTNA; and Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange platform is now available.

The launch continues the vendor's Connected Security strategy that involves enforcing security policies at every connection point across the network: switches, firewalls, routers, public and private cloud, and endpoints.

The move comes about four months after McAfee announced integrations with three ZTNA vendors, Appgate, Axis Security, and TransientX, so it could add this key technology to its SASE

Fortinet reports continued growth in Q2; AWS sales hit $14.8B in a 37% year over year jump; and T-Mobile's low-band 5G network now covers 305 million people.

Fortinet continued to see robust revenue growth in the second quarter, driven by strong demand across both its appliance and software offerings.

Google Cloud revenue hits $4.6B in Q2; Microsoft Azure revenue grew 51% year over year; and AMD doubled its Q2 revenue.

The bottom line is that the companies that adopted some level of zero trust are in a better position to deal with data breaches, IBM Security's Limor Kessem said.

CISOs now have to “think about how they bring more security to where their people are, instead of moving their people to where the security is,” Cisco’s Dug Song

Verizon has the first virtualized 5G radio access network equipment; IBM released its Q2 financial results; and Tom Corn joined Open Systems as CPO.

CloudKnox marks Microsoft’s third security startup acquisition in two months. Last week it reportedly paid $500 million for RiskIQ.

Illumio updated its segmentation platform with new zero-trust automation features; Xilinx’s Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) got a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) upgrade; and executives at AT&T and Cisco

“Just because you turn off the lights doesn’t mean the cockroaches aren’t there. You just can’t see them,” Cisco's Bob Everson said.

“People need small, incremental wins on that journey of building zero trust into their environment,” Illumio CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

Microsoft buys ReFirm Labs for an IoT security boost; Illumio reaches a $2.75 billion valuation; and other M&A and VC news from June 2021.

“There is hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into this illicit marketplace right now and, unfortunately, things are gonna get worse,” Cisco Talos threat researcher Nick Biasini said.

Vodafone confirmed 100% renewable energy usage in Europe beginning July 1; Nutanix’s CEO eyes a $61B market opportunity; and Dell’s Omnia automates HPC.