Illumio’s new head of cybersecurity strategy — former Obama administration executive Jonathan Reiber — literally wrote the book on cyberstrategy at the U.S. Department of Defense. Reiber is Illumio’s

A brief look into what six companies are doing with their internal STEM programs to ensure that the next generation of employees are prepared.

The IoT business unit of Comcast, machineQ, named new customers that represent new industries and use cases for its low-power wide area network.

The managed hybrid cloud service initially supports Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Azure Stack.

Facebook developed the osquery security framework to monitor its own infrastructure before open sourcing it in 2014.

The visibility tool is part of the company’s Internet Intelligence initiative and uses technology acquired from Dyn, a cloud-based domain name service provider Oracle bought in 2016.

The fine is set to resolve ZTE's trade violations, but could open the door for China's approval of Qualcomm's pending NXP acquisition.

Riverbed's SteelCentral updates combined the licensing of its end-user monitoring and APM so enterprises can adapt with their monitoring needs over time.

The two malware families target U.S. media, aerospace, financial, and critical infrastructure sectors’ networks.

Recent updates ahead of its official launch included a product to help organizations deal with the EU's recently implemented GDPR rules.

The move essentially redirects the malware’s attacks to an FBI-controlled server.

The company saved about $83 million over the first half of fiscal 2018 though its HPE Next cost-cutting initiative.

Security researchers tied the malware to a Russian group responsible for hacking incidents during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

The contract comes as Microsoft competes against other cloud providers for a $10 billion Pentagon deal called JEDI.

Red Hat enhances its virtualization game; HPE releases AI and ML suite for telcos; CA Technologies gets stamp of approval from U.S. Department of Defense.

While Adtran has been working internally to build models for application-level testing, with Broadband Forum it can create a standards-based approach to the modeling.

The deal bolsters Verizon’s overall operations, but it also boosts AWS’ position among the country’s largest telecom operators.

A small team within the company will look at how to incorporate the distributed ledger technology.

Groups like the ORAN Forum, Cisco’s Open vRAN initiative, and TIP’s OpenRAN Group are all working to virtualize the RAN. The Linux Foundation has kept its distance, so far.

ZTE might look to judicial remedies after the U.S. ban; Huawei lays off its Washington, D.C. liason; and Twitter bans ads from Kaspersky Labs.

The organization plans to focus on Kubernetes, Istio, and Envoy this year, but is not about chasing a shiny ball.

Cisco, itself, recently issued a warning about its Smart Install client, saying it was vulnerable to cyber attacks by nation-state actors.

These three initiatives are all focused on virtualizing the RAN, and some of the same companies belong to all three groups. But why are there three?

Both firms continue to tout their broader cloud security platforms as superior to more focused efforts or those from large cloud providers.