“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.

Acacia, which makes high-speed coherent optical interconnect products, plays a major role in Cisco’s 5G strategy.

Fortinet says it’s been doing SASE before Gartner coined the buzzy phrase. “That’s something we term security-driven networking,” CMO John Maddison said.

However, Fortinet’s revenue growth in the second half of 2019 and first quarter of 2020 actually outpaced Palo Alto Networks.

Cisco bought AppDynamics, an application performance management company, for $3.7 billion in 2017.

Google also rolled out BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics service that extends BigQuery across on-premises environments, rival cloud AWS and, coming soon, Azure.

“Customers want simplicity, scalability, and flexibility, and moving services to the edge gives them all of that at low latency,” Juniper’s Samantha Madrid said.

Oracle’s final — or at least latest — frontier in its ongoing cloud war against Amazon Web Services is the data center.

The Equinix partnership comes on the heels of Alibaba’s plans to invest $28 billion and hire 5,000 people to boost its cloud platform.

F5 bought Shape for $1 billion late last year. Shape’s network blocks more than 1 billion application attacks daily.

“It’s a hot market, we have a hot product, and that automatically makes the company valuable,” said Bitglass CTO and co-founder Anurag Kahol.

The Telco Security Alliance investigated threat actors taking advantage of the pandemic to launch campaigns against businesses and government agencies globally.

Datrium is already a VMware partner and offers disaster recovery-as-a-service with VMware Cloud on AWS. The deal marks VMware’s third acquisition in as many months.

Among organizations using attack-specific playbooks, only 45% have plans for ransomware attacks.

Reopening branch offices and expanding a remote or digital workforce creates this “new edge” that requires connectivity, automation, and built-in security, Cisco’s Pat Vitalone said.

Anjuna’s software automatically encrypts data in runtime, at rest, and on the network with no changes to the application code or software development kit required.

The group, which formed nine months ago, has grown 60% since then and added 10 new members in the last five months.

Palo Alto Networks and Aqua Security researchers say cryptojackers are inserting malicious images into containers to mine for Monero.

The new piece of the strategy is Ezmeral, a Kubernetes-based platform that allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications across any infrastructure.

The pandemic “put a spotlight on how can IT managers not only do their jobs but be more effective when they’re working remotely,” Nutanix VP Greg Smith said.

“I’ve seen the movie a number of times, and the playbook is remarkably repeatable,” he said.

Antonio Neri delivered the HPE Discover opening keynote from his living room after the pandemic forced the event to go digital and after Neri tested positive for COVID-19.

Illumio Edge is managed in the cloud and uses a lightweight agent on endpoints — either an Illumio agent or customers can use an existing CrowdStrike Falcon agent.