Francisco Partners will remain the controlling shareholder in Forcepoint's commercial business, focusing on its secure access service edge offering.

This week was about cybersecurity -- avoiding vulnerabilities, learning more about them, or CISOs dealing with the consequences.

The vendor found global ransomware attacks increased by more than 37% compared to the previous year, with ransom demands averaging $5.3 million.

This week, our readers were thirsty for new news — from upgrading from old legacy tech like VPNs to ZTNA, to Cisco's acquisition of Accedian.

Confidential computing company Opaque Systems enhances its platform with zero-trust data clean rooms and confidential AI.

The MFA adoption rate of the government (48%) was 16% lower than the private sector (64%), an Okta report showed.

The cloud provider announced the public preview of its new Amazon CodeGuru Security at this year’s AWS re:Inforce event.

Google Cloud security products increase efforts to combine AI and cybersecurity with several new and enhanced products and partnerships.

Cisco Secure Access is designed to provide “secure access to any application for any user from any device from any network,” EVP Jeetu Patel said.

NCC Group recorded record-breaking volume of ransomware attacks in March and April, while Veeam’s report showed a 12% increase year over year.

"One of the largest impediments that [customers] had to adopt zero trust was that they weren't clear on when they could tell if they were done," Herb Kelsey said.

Orca Security noted the top issues are “not the newest and most talked about,” so a focus on security basics is the best solution.

The $1.75 million contract addresses what Tetrate's Branden Wood described as the biggest IT issue impacting government organizations.

The platform integrates capabilities needed for secure access service edge including SD-WAN, firewall, zero-trust network access and secure web gateway.

Ericsson is still in investment mode with its enterprise efforts.

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

Cradlepoint acquired Ericom Software; DT regained a controlling stake in T-Mobile US; and cloud service spending is set to soar.

The service integrates with Microsoft Azure Panorama network security management to extend security policy from on-premises to the public cloud.

The addition of Versa Networks to the Lumen secure access service edge partner ecosystem was a "no brainer," said Lumen's Darren Wolner.

The vendor's zero-trust partners include Juniper Networks, Maryland Innovation Security Institute, Nvidia, Palo Alto Networks and VMware.

“The idea of fully replacing VPNs with zero-trust network access has been the utopian promise by industry vendors for years," said Netskope VP Naveen Palavalli.

“So far any approach to bringing zero trust onto the premise has really been an adjunct approach, a bolt-on approach,” CEO Kelly Ahuja said.

Originally created for Comcast's internal use, DataBee is now targeting other large enterprises that face the same problem - too much data.

The vendor’s security service edge combined with Netskope Endpoint SD-WAN is a “[secure access service edge] for your laptop,” SVP Parag Thakore said.