Fortinet Advisor blends the company's threat intelligence and knowledge base with the power of large language models to provide security analysts with rapid incident analysis and guidance.

IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh establishes connectivity based on application endpoints rather than physical networks, allowing deployment of workloads across data centers, private clouds and public clouds.

40% of the 6.5 million Google Drive files Metomic scanned had confidential information, such as customer information, employee records or company secrets.

Versa Networks has been selected to provide SD-WAN, zero-trust access and customer edge security stack functions for the DoD's Thunderdome project.

Cisco's new AI Assistant for Firewall Policy is a generative AI-powered technology that uses natural language queries to understand and configure firewall policies.

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware was big news this month. It was also a big month for security with news from Palo Alto Networks, Extreme Networks and Zscaler.

A key focus of the expanded Palo Alto Networks-IBM collaboration will be helping companies modernize their security operations centers (SOCs) through advanced artificial intelligence and automation.

Aviz Networks aims to drive multivendor SONiC adoption while keeping the network operating system rooted in its open-source, community-driven origins.

Steve Schmidt also identified three key questions that organizations should answer to ensure the safe and appropriate use of generative artificial intelligence.

The vendor is seeing customers who initially purchased a firewall-based single-vendor secure access service edge solution that failed to deliver, Jay Chaudhry said.

At re:Invent, AWS unveiled new cloud networking capabilities that simplify connections, improve availability and strengthen protections across AWS environments.

Microsoft has expanded the capabilities of its secure service edge (SSE) offering with new features designed to enable zero-trust security.

The vendor revealed the price tags of its two recent acquisitions — about $232 million for Dig Security and about $435 million for Talon Cyber Security.

The vendor is also expanding its Security Copilot integration into the identity and data security and management services.

NTT offers 11 managed services based on Cisco's technologies for networking, security, hybrid cloud, data centers, wireless LAN and more.

“In 2024 we expect attackers to use generative AI and LLMs [large language models] to personalize and slowly scale their campaigns,” said Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables.

VMware's Abe Ankumah explained that deployment simplicity makes the partnership unique.

The vendor also introduced five new next-generation firewalls, expanding its portfolio to include more use cases such as 5G and operational technology.

Leveling up its open-source container management platform, SUSE improves security, clusters and apps with new releases of Rancher and Rancher Prime.

"We actually have a roadmap to continue to add those [secure access service edge] capabilities and features throughout next year,” SVP Dan DeBacker said.

IBM rebuilt its SIEM tech to be cloud native, better handle deployments and larger scale, and provide better visibility into hybrid environments.

Talon Cyber Security, a 2.5-year-old Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup, has raised $143 million over three funding rounds.

Developers can expect to save up to 60% of their time by using Red Hat's centralized multicluster management capabilities.

Splunk, in October money moves, announced a reduction of approximately 7% of its global workforce, which could affect more than 500 employees.