The Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium is a who’s who of cloud providers, chipmakers, telecoms, and other tech giants.

The 111 Cybersecurity Tech Accord companies compete daily but all agree on the big picture: protecting customers and users and improving cybersecurity.

The deal follows three other VMware acquisitions announced since May, and this week the company said it’s also in talks to buy sister company Pivotal.

These include software engineers, managers, and technical leaders and follow 462 layoffs last November.

Cisco’s China revenue dropped 25% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter.

“We are investigating whether current or former DoD officials committed misconduct relating to the JEDI acquisition, such as whether any had any conflicts of interest related to their involvement

The cloud provider also added second-generation Intel Xeon scalable processor virtual machines for general-purpose workloads including enterprise applications.

Application security is changing the role of virtual administrators and expanding their job responsibilities as silos between InfoSec and the rest of the enterprise begin to converge.

While its edge services today tend to be more “on a bespoke basis,” by 2020 “we expect a huge influx of ready-to-go capacity,” says CenturyLink’s Dave Shacochis.

If you think VMware’s secret sauce is its network virtualization platform NSX, you’re wrong. The real secret sauce is HCX.

Scooping up a container-focused security startup is a smart move for McAfee, which has been working to bolster its enterprise cloud security business during the past few years.

The chipmaker says the deal will drive more than $2 billion of incremental, run-rate revenues and about $1.3 billion in earnings, including synergies between the two companies.

“The foundational security of the cloud providers was less of a concern, and we saw more concerns over issues that [enterprises] have control over,” said CSA’s John Yeoh.

Context-aware access allows companies to enforce access policies based on a user’s identity and the “context” of their request, such as users’ location, time of day that they are

Pureport’s SDN-based platform with its layer 3 connections to public clouds “sits between the lanes of a cloud on ramp and an SD-WAN vendor,” says VP Gary McAuliffe.

It also added new scenario-based challenges with bounties up to $300,000 for specific challenges in Azure Security Lab and said it will offer $2 million in rewards this year

The deal gives MapR a lifeline, and it boosts HPE’s “intelligent edge” strategy as the infrastructure vendor works to infuse AI, ML, and intelligent data processing capabilities across its

Blue Hexagon uses deep learning to provide security and protect enterprises from cyberattacks.

Trinity Cyber led the pack with its $23 million Series A round led by Intel Capital.

CEO Lee Chen blamed the revenue miss on several large deals being delayed, and he sounded oddly optimistic on an earnings call despite the bad-news trifecta.

It’s essentially pocket change for the vendor — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins' house sold for $10.65 million last year — but it could have broader implications for other security

“Before us, backup data was just an expensive insurance policy. We are the first ones to make backup data useful,” says Cohesity’s Raj Dutt,

The vendor first started talking about Connected Security earlier this year. It involves a layered approach to security where threat detection and policy enforcement is built into each layer.

Nokia and Cisco provided the core, Ericsson provided the radio, and MediaTek provided the device for T-Mobile's data session.