Eight out of 15 top vulnerabilities routinely exploited last year by malicious actors impacted Microsoft Exchange email servers.

While there were indications of a slowed pace in the second half of 2021, zero-day exploitation is still expanding at an elevated rate, Mandiant found.

Trend Micro One technology ecosystem inaugural partners include Google Cloud, Microsoft, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, and Slack.

Seventy-four percent of financial institutions experienced at least one ransomware attack over the past year, and 63% of them paid a ransom.

Inaugural members of expanded project include Schneider Electric, GE, Honeywell, Siemens, Bechtel, Claroty, and Dragos.

“Most known cloud security incidents start with a misconfigured identity and access management or leaked credential,” Unit 42 researchers noted.

The vendor is seeing more focus on and more investment in the concept of cyber resilience and technologies that bridge security and recovery.

“Native means we own the technology that is needed to be deployed,” Bitdefender VP Amy Blackshaw said.

CrowdStrike and Mandiant reportedly discussed the partnership before the Google-Mandiant deal.

Growing ransomware threats will be a key driver for Singapore enterprises to increase security spending, GlobalData's Saurabh Daga said.

Cisco brought several performance capabilities from its high-end appliances to its mid-range firewall series, Cisco's Andrew Ossipov said.

“Cybercriminals are doubling down by finding additional ways to extort victims in conjunction with ransomware,” Unit 42 VP Ryan Olson said.

The deal merges next-generation firewall capabilities with public cloud scalability and management.

Asia was the most targeted region last year, experiencing over one quarter of the cyberattacks IBM observed globally, according to its latest report.

IBM’s key management services are in line with its data-centric, zero-trust approach, cloud security CTO Nataraj Nagaratnam said.

Ransomware detection dropped 21%, which the vendor said could be the result of defensive actions that blocked more malware tools.

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity joined forces to provide free zero-trust security services to vulnerable industries in the U.S.

“Identity threat detection and response is the missing link in holistic XDR and zero-trust strategies,” SentinelOne COO Nicholas Warner said.

Forrester named Akamai Technologies and Illumio as "leaders" in the microsegmentation space, and Aruba, VMware, and Cisco as “strong performers."

Apstra grew its customer base by 400% since the acquisition and expanded to over 60 countries, according to Juniper Networks VP Mansour Karam.

Extended detection and response and cloud security are among the key focus areas for CrowdStrike this year.

400 Gb/s switch deployments expanded beyond hyperscalers, reaching smaller cloud service providers and large enterprises, Dell’Oro Group reported.

“Together we can make a profound impact in securing the cloud, accelerating the adoption of cloud computing,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said.

“Edge has surprisingly strong momentum, despite the perceived risk,” AT&T Business' Theresa Lanowitz said.