Cisco’s latest security report, based on a survey of almost 500 SMBs, aims to debunk myths about smaller companies’ security posture and threats.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company will spend $4 billion or more — all of its expected Q2 profit — on COVID-19 related costs.

“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.

The networking vendor announced the new routing platforms as part of its boldly named “Internet for the Future” strategy targeting service providers.

While the global pandemic hit Google’s advertising revenue hard, it may have boosted sales in some other areas including Google Cloud and G-Suite.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The IoT Video Security Fabric is available and in use by a municipal government in a “major European capital city,” Pluribus’ Jay Gill said.

The new Azure confidential computing service allows companies to process data in hardware-based secure enclaves called trusted execution environments.

Edgewise Networks CEO Peter Smith discusses the rapid shift to remote work because of COVID-19 and how zero-trust security can help.

Dynamic Threat Analysis protects containerized applications from image-based malware by automatically running images in a secure sandboxed environment.

IBM Cloud Data Shield is based on Fortanix’s technology that encrypts data at rest, in transit, and while in use, thus allowing general-purpose computation on encrypted data.

GIC and Equinix formed their first joint venture last July, also valued at more than $1 billion, to build European data centers for large cloud providers.

Customers “get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” CEO Steve Mullaney said.

The move would mean Rackspace’s return to the public market. The managed services company went private in 2016 in a $4.3 billion deal led by Apollo Global Management.

Google had originally planned to release the product later this year. But then the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased demand for remote worker security.

“Notable spikes in attacks can also be correlated to key days in the COVID-19 news cycle,” wrote VMware Cabon Black threat researchers Patrick Upatham and Jim Treinen.

The FortiGuard Labs team as recently as April 4 reported seeing an average of about 600 new coronavirus-related phishing campaigns per day.

“We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees.

The deal comes as Google Cloud makes an all-out push to support mobile network operators.

Earlier this year Awake partnered with Google Cloud, which extended its network traffic analysis across all three major cloud providers.

IBM Cloud, Microsoft, Dell Technologies, HPE, VMware, Nutanix, Lenovo, and Supermicro platforms support the latest AMD processors.

Some of the new features include better public cloud cost comparisons via integration with VMware’s CloudHealth and improved VMware Cloud on AWS migration.

The vulnerability could allow a hacker to “extract highly sensitive information which could be used to compromise vCenter Server or other services,” the security advisory said.