A vendor survey found 48% of respondents cited ransomware as the top concern for IT organizations heading into 2023.

Cisco dropped a category in GigaOm's latest SD-WAN Radar report, due to "its lagging behind the industry in general based on the pace of innovation.”

The vendor also noted organizations are adopting zero trust at the point of access and identity protection.

“Auth0 from Okta is, I would say, our No. 1 competitor when we look out there,” co-founder Rishi Bhargava said.

"This is where the market is going, bringing [secure access service edge] and your next-generation firewall together,” Fortinet VP Nirav Shah said.

The pair are also partnering with Palo Alto Networks to integrate a multi-factor, zero-trust security model into the private wireless package.

The Viptela platform joins Cisco's Meraki in being deployable using the vendor's secure access service edge platform.

The service is an opportunity to "establish a baseline" and then evolve over time to a secure access service edge, Windstream's Chris Alberding said.

The updates allows network management teams to implement a network fabric’s policy across all sites and use hyper-segmentation to bolster security.

The duo helps store, analyze, report, investigate, and consolidate Wiz-generated cloud security events and data into Snowflake’s security data lake.

The platform blends encryption, anonymization, cryptography, data masking, and vaultless tokenization to protect data.

The cloud-native security vendor integrated ChatGPT to help organizations quickly secure Kubernetes clusters using an open policy agent.

The vendor's Duo Risk-Based Authentication delivers "on [Cisco's] promise of frustrating attackers, but not frustrating users,” SVP Tom Gillis said.

The update comes as the federal government continues to work through the hardening of the country’s telecommunications and information infrastructure.

CMO John Maddison said the new platform can deliver 17-times faster firewall performances and 32-times faster encryption.

Dish Network closed a $1.5 billion funding round to bankroll its 5G network build, and Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI.

Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP all announced job cuts this month due to various factors including economic uncertainty.

Tapping Prisma SASE, the service offers "a fully managed end-to-end network with cloud security features," NTT SVP Aishwarya Singh said.

CEO Mike Sievert stated the carrier's investment to bolster its cybersecurity capabilities reduced the blast radius of its latest breach.

One of the bugs might serve as a potential hardware supply chain risk and persist across reboots and firmware upgrades.

Cisco hired a former VMware exec; AT&T made headway on its 5G and fiber expansion plans; and Gartner gave its SASE predictions for 2023.

The disaster prevention and recovery capabilities are built on its security service edge and zero-trust platform.

However, CEO Pekka Lundmark also slashed gross margin expectations for the vendor's Cloud and Network Services business.

The vendor is seeing more customers opt for its security operations center-as-a-service model.