“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.

Hailo raised $136M in Series C funding; Google Cloud announced Google Distributed Cloud and new sustainability metrics tools.

Akamai bought Guardicore for $600 million; Snyk's Series F funding bumped the company's valuation to $8.5 billion; and F5 acquired Threat Stack.

“We believe the future of work is definitively going to be hybrid, where people are going to work in mixed mode,” Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel said.

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

Gee Rittenhouse left Cisco; Secureworks appointed Wendy Thomas as CEO; and Arrcus appointed former VMware exec Shekar Ayyar as CEO and chairman.

“Our customers file one-third the frequency of claims compared to the U.S. cyber insurance market average,” CEO Joshua Motta said. “And that’s because we’re proactively helping protect them.”

There’s more work to do and dollars to spend to shore up our collective security posture.

The vendor previously acquired Nginx, Shape Security, and Volterra.

Cisco's security business grew 1% since last year; IDC expects annual cloud revenue will reach $300B in 2025; and Nokia announced FP5-based appliances.

“We are thrilled that Shaila will be the first woman to run Cisco’s security business in an industry that needs far more talent like her,” EVP Jeetu Patel wrote

“It’s outrageous that the world’s largest cybersecurity vendor ... believes that its users aren’t entitled to share any benchmark or performance comparison of its products,” Orca Security CEO Avi

Neosec launched with $20M in funding; former CISA director promoted company-wide security efforts; and Arrcus hired former VMware executive Shekar Ayyar as CEO.

“Ransomware events of the last year and a half have changed the way that boards and executives think about cybersecurity, not just as an IT risk,” Chris Krebs said.

“Neosec is like an XDR for APIs, or a CrowdStrike for application security,” said CEO Giora Engel, who sold his previous startup LightCyber to Palo Alto Networks for $105

Following the Series F funding round, Snyk more than tripled its valuation compared to $4.7 billion at the beginning of the year.

“It’s going to take a tremendous effort across multiple layers of defense, including public-private partnerships, to tackle cybersecurity-related issues,” Michael Dell said.

Fortinet pledges to train a million cybersecurity professionals; Dell launches ransomware recovery software; and Cisco SD-WAN is compatible with Equinix's data centers.

“Fortinet is furthering its commitment to significantly reduce the cyber skills gap as part of this initiative,” Fortinet founder and CEO Ken Xie said.

Arctic Wolf promoted Nick Schneider to CEO; HPE CTO Kumar Sreekanti is leaving his position; and Exabeam appointed a new COO.

"Startups from application security and network security are the leaders in terms of count and investments,” GlobalData's Apoorva Bajaj said.

Cisco invests in hybrid work technologies; Cisco's Q2 software sales topped $4B; and campus switching enters a new era of growth.

The agency “strongly encourages” all of the cloud database customers to roll and regenerate their certificate keys and review Microsoft’s guidance on securing data.

“To say we are disappointed and frustrated that this happened is an understatement,” T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert wrote.