“Security should be a strategic priority for all small and medium businesses, just because they can't afford to have the disruption,” AWS's Ben Schreiner said.

The vendor will continue supporting third-party SD-WAN products for multivendor secure access service edge, Check Point VP Amit Bareket said.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said Splunk’s security, observability and artificial intelligence capabilities “complement” Cisco’s existing portfolio.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the integration gives the vendor “one of the most complete cloud security offerings on the planet.”

X-Force reported over 35% of the cloud security incidents it responded to in the last year involved valid-but-stolen credentials by attackers.

The deal, which is set to close early in the fourth quarter of 2023, marks Tenable's sixth acquisition since its initial public offering in 2018.

IBM has updated its Cloud Security and Compliance Center platform with advanced security protections and intelligent automation for compliance.

“What we think lies ahead is the need for security to stop bad actors midflight, real time, as it's happening,” Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said.

Bot management helps protect IBM Cloud users from the growing sophistication and volume of malicious bots, which make up about 25% of web traffic.

Adaptiv Networks updated its SD-WAN service this week with zero-trust and cloud security capabilities as it works toward a future SASE release.

Oort has raised $15 million in funding and Cisco has been a strategic investor since 2022.

The survey showed 90% of respondents consider the use of a single cloud security platform with one dashboard to be moderately to extremely helpful.

Our top 5 stories of the week, led by Cisco, Intel and Dell as the top influencers for the "still gelling" open RAN ecosystem.

Google Cloud security products increase efforts to combine AI and cybersecurity with several new and enhanced products and partnerships.

Cisco Secure Access is designed to provide “secure access to any application for any user from any device from any network,” EVP Jeetu Patel said.

Orca Security noted the top issues are “not the newest and most talked about,” so a focus on security basics is the best solution.

IBM acquired Polar Security to gain access to its DPSM technology, which is needed to secure sensitive and unknown shadow data in the cloud.

Ericsson is still in investment mode with its enterprise efforts.

Cradlepoint acquired Ericom Software; DT regained a controlling stake in T-Mobile US; and cloud service spending is set to soar.

Aryaka and Check Point first teamed up in 2020 to provide customers with the building blocks they need to adopt a secure access service edge model.

Cradlepoint will integrate Ericom's platform to provide a 5G secure access service edge stack "in the near future,” said SVP Manish Tiwari.

HPE bought Athonet to pad its private network portfolio; Cisco acquired Valtix to expand its multi-cloud capabilities; and SAP sold Qualtrics.

Amazon and Zscaler announced layoffs; Verizon shook up its executive ranks; and Accenture reported on gender diversity in the tech industry.

Cisco accelerates its cloud security expansion with the Lightspin acquisition, marking its second deal within two months.