“We have room to get better in security, and the teams are working hard on that,” Chuck Robbins said. “There’s a lot of innovative work going on.”

It’s the cybersecurity unicorn’s second record-setting investment in less than a year. In January, Lacework announced a $525 million funding round.

“In the event when you’re hunting down a threat, it can be a really long, cold winter between discovery and remediation if you lack visibility,” Cisco SVP Al Huger

The attackers accessed the Aruba Central cloud environment using an unauthorized access key and exposed two data repositories, according to an HPE security advisory.

Gartner recently coined CNAPP, and the cloud security sector has quickly rallied around this name and product category. Today Palo Alto Networks joined the CNAPP party.

“Is it fast enough for them to maximize their market share? Time will tell,” analyst and report author Grant Lenahan said. “We’re trying to sound the alarm.”

VMware research finds employees want transparent spying; and Cisco powers AT&T's latest managed SASE.

It’s not so much the spying that poses the problem. Employees just want their companies to be transparent about their surveillance measures.

Qualys determined that the 36 most prevalent ransomware families used about 110 CVEs. And all of them have patches available for the past several years.

Build applications in the cloud like cattle, not pets, says Aaron Ansari, VP of cloud security at Trend Micro. He also strongly endorses ant relay races.

Under the agreement, Siemens will sell its Ruggedcom networking and security platforms with Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewalls built in.

Snyk didn’t disclose financial details about the CloudSkiff deal, which is its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months.

While other vendors in the emerging XDR space debate a platform versus open or partner approach, IBM says it remains committed to providing both.

Under the agreement, Dell Technologies shed its 81% stake in VMware, which is now a $64 billion independent software company.

“The market very obviously moved in the direction of OT security. And Dragos has been pretty far out in front of our competitors,” CEO Robert M. Lee said.

As enterprises struggle to defend against advanced bots and API attacks, they are moving away from stand-alone web application firewalls and instead choosing a web app and API protection

“Security continues to be an increasing area of focus and a differentiator for us,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said.

CloudSecure continues Illumio’s zero-trust philosophy: “It’s just applying different techniques,” CTO and co-founder PJ Kirner said.

The startup’s technology helps cloud-native enterprise customers better predict costs and provides transparency across Kubernetes environments.

“If you can stop all breaches Mandiant’s aware of, you’re pretty much stopping all the breaches,” Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia said during a panel discussion with Splunk CEO Doug

The update adds threat intelligence, investigation, and response capabilities, courtesy of Splunk's TrueStar acquisition in May.

A report found multi-factor and biometric authentication methods surged during the pandemic as enterprises adopted new security measures to support their hybrid workers.

“This Cybersecurity Action Team marshals the experts from across Google to form the world’s premier security advisory team,” Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables said.

Ransomware “is the No. 1 board topic,” CEO Kevin Mandia said during his opening keynote at Mandiant's Cyber Defense Summit event.