This contributes to what VMware calls “intrinsic security,” which is a theme that the virtualization giant has been leaning into since its concerted push into the security sector.

Cisco’s 2020 CISO Benchmark Study found that 28% of security professionals say that managing a multi-vendor environment is very challenging.

At the annual security event, Google Cloud rolled out new security features including threat detection and timeline capabilities in Chronicle and online fraud prevention services.

It’s also getting a little bit SASE with its secure SD-WAN, but executives say they’ll talk more about this technology later in the year.

The group also today made available OpenDXL Ontology, which it says is the first open source language for connecting security tools.

The products use artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline threat hunting and improve security across customers’ clouds, data centers, endpoints, and IoT devices.

Cornerstone’s platform uses automation to convert any programming language or database into any other language or database and prepare legacy workloads for cloud-native environments.

Later this week the vendor will launch a new product for cloud workloads that supports containers and Kubernetes.

It becomes increasingly important as operators rollout 5G networks and enterprises connect billions of new devices to these corporate networks.

The companies announced the deal a week before the annual RSA mega-cybersecurity conference kicks off in San Francisco.

This anonymized data from the operators’ security operations centers and investigations is then pooled using AT&T’s OTX platform.

Meanwhile, Arista’s Q4 revenue declined, and took a big hit from cloud and service providers sales.

The interconnection giant this week reported its 68th consecutive quarter of growth and said it ended fiscal year 2019 with $5.56 billion in revenue.

Double-digit declines in service provider sales continue to plague Cisco earnings. The vendor reported an 11% drop in service provider revenue in the second quarter of its fiscal 2020.

“We believe there is a space race right now for SASE,” CEO Amit Bareket said. “Perimeter 81 is positioned very strongly to win it.”

The colocation giant already partnered with Oracle and offered direct, private connections to Oracle’s public cloud via Equinix’s SDN-based platform.

Of the more than 8.5 billion records breached in 2019, 7 billion were due to misconfigurations.

The security company scored a new $340 million investment, which puts Netskope at a $3 billion valuation.

Huawei’s lawsuit accuses the U.S. carrier of illegally using 12 of its patents in Verizon networks.

If exploited, the bugs would allow an attacker to eavesdrop on voice and video calls and steal corporate data flowing through the network’s switches and routers.

Only 17% of companies are effectively stopping cyberattacks and fixing breaches fast enough to reduce their impact.

Microsoft continued to narrow the gap as it guns for the No. 1 cloud market share position.

This is significant because Alphabet has long ignored investors’ pleas to report Google Cloud earnings as a separate line item.

Scytale’s founders included engineers from Amazon Web Services, Duo Security (now owned by Cisco), Google, Okta, PagerDuty, and Splunk.