“Today, we’re at the start of the next transition as we build for the metaverse," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.

“Protecting the runtime is the foundation of securing the inner workings of a modern application,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.

Microsoft also extended its native cloud security capabilities to Google Cloud in addition to its existing AWS and Azure support.

Despite an uptick in law enforcement takedowns over the last year, ransomware remains the top attack type, IBM's X-Force reports.

“​​What we're trying to do is bake security deeper into the network,” Arista's Rudolph Araujo said.

“You have to assume that an advanced persistent threat is going to go inside your network,” CEO Ratan Tipirneni said.

“You don't want your OT side going out talking to the internet. That's a big no, no. So proper segmentation is huge,” CISO Kristen Sanders said.

The simplified portfolio boils down to five core areas: cloud infrastructure, management, storage, database, and desktop services, SVP Thomas Cornely said.

"WAAP, as a cloud service, is a fast-growing area, led by large cloud providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Google," IDC's Chris Rodriguez said.

Aruba’s NaaS portfolio “encompasses everything that we're doing,” CTO David Hughes said.

Campus switch vendors see artificial intelligence as an opportunity to differentiate themselves, Dell’Oro Group's Sameh Boujelbene said.

“Storage plays a central role in recovering from an attack,” IBM's Chris Saul said.

Nebula is similar to "new, unknown threats ... invisible to even the latest security technologies,” Palo Alto Networks' Anand Oswal said.

“The path to a zero-trust posture can be broken into bite-sized phases,” Illumio CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

In addition to Google Cloud and early Azure support, Lacework also unveiled a new name for its core cloud security platform: Polygraph Data Platform.

“We timed our investment in bringing to market the most advanced 400 Gb/s platforms at the right time," Pluribus CMO Mike Capuano claims.

“We intend to move all of our products with cloud-delivered value and subscription, SaaS offering” in 2022, VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said.

Cisco's P100 routing ASICs are 33% less performant compared to Juniper's new Express 5 silicon, Juniper Networks VP Brendan Gibbs claims.

The study confirmed "aligning privacy with security creates financial and maturity advantages compared to other models,” Cisco VP Harvey Jang said.

Customers don't understand what XDR means but they get SOC, Hunters CEO Uri May claims.

Dell’Oro Group's Sameh Boujelbene predicts 200 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s ports will more than double in 2022.

The new switches are designed to operate in the harsh industrial environments faced by transportation, utility, railway, oil, and gas infrastructure.

Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said future acquisitions would target incident response, threat intel, endpoint protection, and cloud security.

Dell Technologies is “in a unique position” to solve customer challenges across a broad set of public clouds, VP Caitlin Gordan said.