Unauthorized access to Western Digital’s system has been publicly reported, resulting in the shutdown of some cloud services. Should you be concerned?

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

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

Cloudflare's 2023 Application Security report reveals some surprising trends as attackers take aim at Microsoft Exchange.

Akamai updates its zero-trust security portfolio designed to help organizations bolster network security. The updates are based on technologies that Akamai gained via the $600 million acquisition of Israeli

Edge cloud platform provider Fastly launched its new managed security service yesterday in an attempt to help organizations deal with the ongoing deluge of web application attacks.

Meta announces the PyTorch Foundation; PMDojo says diversity isn't a pipeline problem; and Future Market Insights forecasts the SD-WAN security market.

Aurora Solar hits a 10 million milestone; VMware says cloud migration depends on a culture shift; and Illumio tests microsegmentation.

Users can now view and configure security settings for software-as-as-service apps in a “single, unified business SASE portal,” SVP Anand Oswal said.

“The big driver for Linkerd is network security, and especially this idea of zero-trust security for Kubernetes,” CEO William Morgan said.

Until full secure access service edge is achievable, “security convergence is better than no convergence," Cato's CMO said.

“This is massive growth,” Mauricio Sanchez, Dell’Oro research director, network security and SASE/SD-WAN told SDxCentral.

The survey indicates the increase in hybrid work and reliance on cloud applications has changed the traditional concept of a defense perimeter.

Vendors that don't have the full set of secure service edge capabilities may be at “a competitive disadvantage,” Dell'Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said.

"My advice is that you start thinking about this new, evolving model as a mash-up of both zero trust and SASE," AT&T CSO Bill O'Hern said.

Security service edge needs better intrinsic network security; 5G hype hits a phase of uncertainty; and CrowdStrike surfs Forrester's EDR wave.

The deal merges next-generation firewall capabilities with public cloud scalability and management.

"WAAP, as a cloud service, is a fast-growing area, led by large cloud providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Google," IDC's Chris Rodriguez said.

IDC forecasts security product revenue will hit $77.8 billion this year, up from $67.7 billion in 2021.

“Interest in zero trust has exploded due to the numerous high-profile security attacks in the recent past," analyst Mauricio Sanchez said.

“This vulnerability is so dangerous because of its massive scale,” Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen said.

Embracing zero trust means ending the game of software-threat whack-a-mole, Palo Alto Networks' founder and CTO Nir Zuk said.

Gartner named the top firewall providers; Verizon and AT&T delayed the launch of 5G on C-band spectrum; and AMD released its Milan-X CPUs and Instinct MI200 AI accelerators.

“We offer all our security features baked into the cloud, so we don’t make the customers choose between cost and security,” Oracle VP of Software Bala Chandran said.