The taskforce aims to provide the telco industry with “a roadmap to secure networks, devices, and systems across the entire supply chain,” according to IBM GM Steve Canepa.

The Australian federal government blames Optus for the breach, and has flagged an overhaul of privacy rules and higher fines.

TELUS will use Palo Alto Networks’ cloud workload protection platforms for its cloud-native network functions.

Orange hopes to manage its network “more systematically” with the new partnership, bringing together cloud-based security and the network.

"The demand for small cell 5G networks grows as mobile data traffic grows," market research firm Fact.MR said.

Fortinet claims the expansion to support FortiExtender 5G/LTE gateways makes it the only vendor providing AIOps on a 5G/LTE link.

Telefónica and Qualcomm collaborate on XR; Alibaba invests $1 billion for cloud customers; and GTT partners with Caliber Financial Services.

Omdia sees the software infrastructure market at $296B by 2026; Charter appoints a new CEO; and Ofcom investigates AWS, Google, Microsoft.

Cisco's Talos team finds social engineering becoming a more prominent part of the attack lifecycle.

Progress extends coverage for its Chef DevSecOps portfolio to India; Equinix eyes green hydrogen; and Revelo releases a tech talent report.

As demand for data rises, green hydrogen is becoming an increasingly plausible energy source for the data center industry.

Nutanix shifted the focus of its Elevate program; AWS Outposts unhooks EKS at the edge; and Forrester's tips for cloud success.

"When MFA is implemented using weaker factors, attackers can try to bypass MFA," Okta's Sumit Bahl said.

Aqua launches a software supply chain security solution; CrowdStrike introduces a hybrid XDR; and Salesforce announced a carbon credit market.

Gartner last year named Reposify one of the emerging vendors in the external attack surface management category.

Palo Alto Networks SVP Ankur Shah noted more customers are asking about SBOM, but “we're still in the early days."

The vendor's Falcon Insight XDR also integrate telemetry with third-party vendors, which now include Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks.

Comcast stays silent on scope 3 emissions; Turing presents the top 15 requested developer skills; and Intel calls net-zero challenging.

Operational metrics such as electricity consumption, water use, and scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions are steadily decreasing, according to the report.

Twilio announces a restructuring plan; Forrester calls hybrid cloud the norm; and Verizon touts its 5G milestones.

A software bill of materials is "a prerequisite to effective security and certainly not a full solution," CISA's Eric Goldstein said.

Federal agencies will have to vet third-party IT software deployments; Oracle makes digs at Amazon; and VMware pays $8M in fines.

The latest moves come just months after it named Sowmyanarayan Sampath as CEO replacing long-time company exec Tami Erwin.

The new ToDo and Remediation Guru features are built into the Sysdig Secure platform.