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.

Networking vendor Netgear is seeing mixed results fiscally as the company faces headwinds in some markets for its small and medium business users

"We've been pleased with the positive early reception," CEO John Stankey said of its fixed-wireless access service.

Product Manager Annika Garbers touted the vendor's approach meets the market demand for simplicity, cost-effectiveness and unified management.

The vendor will continue supporting third-party SD-WAN products for multivendor secure access service edge, Check Point VP Amit Bareket said.

Tech giants warn that all organizations or individuals serving HTTP-based workloads on the internet might be vulnerable to this distributed denial of service attack.

The vendor, which handles 20% of the world's web traffic, uses a machine learning-based tool called Traffic Manager for reliable connectivity.

This week was all about VMware Explore, as the event was spent trying to show everyone that the company was still the same as it has always been.

GlobalData predicts fixed-wireless access services will double its share of the U.S. broadband market over the next five years.

As networking and security converge, “that's where a single policy and a single set of controls becomes very powerful,” VP Larry Lunetta said.

Bot management helps protect IBM Cloud users from the growing sophistication and volume of malicious bots, which make up about 25% of web traffic.

"It is a means for us to begin finding a good catch to shut down other infrastructure and still serve customers," CEO John Stankey said.

Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez noted security services edge players Zscaler, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks have a multiyear head start on Microsoft.

These two vendors argue their public cloud and telecom software-as-a-service offerings can address telcos’ data resilience and security concerns.

Cato Networks has launched a new set of capabilities that integrates SASE with zero-trust network access to help limit insider risks.

Security experts noted Bishop Fox’s findings reflect the overall trend of delayed patching and the need for easier and automatic patching processes.

The program could spell a windfall for broadband equipment and service providers, though that windfall could come with risks.

The cloud-based Business Internet Portal is a router management dashboard to manage fixed-wireless access-based broadband connectivity.

Charter "needed a 5G wireless connectivity solution to offload traffic from its leased mobile network,” it noted in a statement.

Cross-Cloud Interconnect looks to improve multi-cloud networking by connecting Google Cloud with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Elasticsearch Relevance Engine, available today from Elastic, allows companies to build custom generative AI apps without exposing their data.

The service allows Cloudflare's secure access service edge customers to review or even block the usage of generative artificial intelligence tools.

CMO Mike Katz said customers were using “hundreds of gigs a month on average."