Despite breaches costing companies millions of dollars, CISOs still have a tough time justifying security budgets to corporate boards.

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

Telefónica tapped AWS for 5G core virtualization; Volterra pushed security to the API layer; and Open RAN expected to skyrocket by 2025.

DevOps and security teams can use VoltMesh to provide zero trust networking and security services at every distributed cluster but with centralized management, visibility, and policy control.

"CDN vendors should not be counted out of the SASE race," said Dell'Oro's Mauricio Sanchez.

Building a SASE requires expertise in networking and cloud-based security. Buying one can be prohibitively expensive, but that hasn't stopped some vendors from doing just that.

A Microsoft survey found 58% of business leaders reported budget increases for cybersecurity because of the pandemic. And 82% plan to add security staff.

HPE swallowed Silver Peak to bolster its SD-WAN market position; VMware scored a Dish 5G deal; and Fortinet bought SASE startup Opaq.

In addition to routing, next-generation firewall, and SD-WAN capabilities, the FortiGate 80F boasts integrated WiFi and a power-over-Ethernet switch.

Forcepoint's SASE offering embraces a data-centric philosophy that aims to protect data where users are accessing it.

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.

“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.

“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.

Cisco rolled out its SASE ambitions; Verizon teased its forthcoming DSS launch for nationwide 5G; and cryptominers attacked Azure.

The announcement comes as millions of Americans enter their fourth-consecutive month of working from home, and IT teams scramble to secure a growing perimeter.

GCP also announced it had pushed 15,000 nodes per cluster in its Kubernetes Engine platform.

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.

Cisco raised eyebrows with its seemingly endless appetite for smaller companies; Nokia fried French jobs; and Microsoft acquired CyberX.

Cisco’s Chief Strategy Officer Anuj Kapur hinted at future merger and acquisition targets to satisfy the tech giant’s seemingly endless appetite for smaller companies.

The acquisition comes a month after Zscaler reached a deal to buy Cloudneeti, a cloud security posture management company.

SASE represents an opportunity to put more of Cisco's networking and security services in the cloud, Cisco SVP Jeff Reed said in an exclusive interview with SDxCentral.

The new feature lets application teams build software-defined perimeters around individual application instances.

“My advice to companies right now is to really think about what will happen next,” said Fortinet VP and Global Field CISO Jonathan Nguyen-Duy.

Meanwhile the company only increased its virtual private network capacity 1.5 times to support all of its employees now working from home.