Microsoft reported a 23% jump in scope 3 emissions; SentinelOne acquired Attivo for $617 million; and Intel's European expansion depends on EU funding.

The cloud giant attributed an increase in scope 3 emissions to the global expansion of its data centers and growth in Xbox sales during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Palo Alto Networks targets supply chain security; Fortinet and Orange champion telco managed SASE; and Telefónica tapped Zscaler to expand SSE.

Telefónica’s CEO stressed the importance of tech ethics; the usage gap has outpaced the connectivity gap; and Nokia released its Edge Network Controller.

Vodafone opened a facility to develop silicon for open RAN; Microsoft and Google invested in the Alpha-Omega Project; and SDxCentral's top articles from January.

The Alpha-Omega Project will look for new, undiscovered vulnerabilities in open source code and then work with project maintainers to fix them.

The summit follows a series of cyberattacks including one targeting Apache’s popular Java logging library that’s used in nearly every enterprise app and cloud service.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform aims to minimize the challenge of navigating Kubernetes and reduce the developer skills gap.

Aqua Security acquired Argon Security; Liquid raised $100 million in Series C funding; and Equinix acquired MainOne.

“Software has bugs — sometimes severe security bugs, with significant potential consequences,” Forrester analysts wrote.

Other than Aqua, only Palo Alto Networks can secure all components of the application, Aqua CEO Dror Davidoff said.

“We have room to get better in security, and the teams are working hard on that,” Chuck Robbins said. “There’s a lot of innovative work going on.”

Malware infection rates in North America's fixed networks have also declined throughout the course of 2021 to 2.5%, but still remain well above the low point of 1.1% in

Dish Network plans to launch 5G in Las Vegas; cyber officials encourage the private sector to work with the government to fight ransomware; and Fortinet reported a strong Q3.

While Fortinet expects to maintain strong revenue growth going into the fourth quarter, CFO Keith Jensen warned supply chain constraints could slow the vendor's momentum.

Verizon plans to offer Fortinet’s SD-WAN platform; AMD reported $4.3B in Q3 revenue; and the Linkerd 2.11 update extends zero-trust security to Kubernetes environments.

“We could have grown faster without supply chain constraints,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said during Nokia's third quarter of 2021 earnings call.

"It's easy to imply that there's an extra 10% of revenue growth that did not happen due to supply constraints," CFO Ken Miller said.

Intel announced its CFO will retire; NetApp expanded its Spot portfolio; and Cisco acquired Kubernetes governance startup replex.

Google’s SLSA project is a framework for ensuring the integrity of software artifacts throughout the software supply chain.

Supply chain constraints, due in large part to a global semiconductor and substrate shortage, dogged the chipmaker in Q3.

CEO Börje Ekholm blamed the loss on retaliatory measures resulting from “decisions Sweden took to exclude Chinese vendors in the build-out of 5G networks in Sweden.”

Black Kite raised $22 million in funding; analysts call GlobalFoundries' IPO a call for help; and Dell execs frame hybrid cloud as a tired architecture.

“We've made a move to help companies look at their entire supply chain, vendors, contractors, everything at scale,” Black Kite CEO Paul Paget said.