RiskIQ integrations could allow Microsoft to “do some pretty amazing things around attack surface management,” Forrester senior analyst Brian Kime said.

Netskope reaches a $7.5 billion valuation; Microsoft’s bug bounty program pays $13.6 million to security researchers; and a recap of June’s biggest funding news.

Microsoft buys ReFirm Labs for an IoT security boost; Illumio reaches a $2.75 billion valuation; and other M&A and VC news from June 2021.

A recap of the six largest cybersecurity deals in the first half of the year; gender imbalances persist at MWC; and FTC files a monopoly complaint against Broadcom.

“There is hundreds of millions of dollars flowing into this illicit marketplace right now and, unfortunately, things are gonna get worse,” Cisco Talos threat researcher Nick Biasini said.

“This needs to be, even at the head of state level, something that’s brought up in every conversation between presidents and prime ministers as a problem that can no

Kestrel uses automation to accelerate threat hunting and allows security analysts to express hunts in an open, composable language.

“The bombardment of ransomware attacks is forcing organizations into a constant state of defense rather than an offensive stance,” SonicWall CEO Bill Conner said.

Cisco urges a move beyond ransomware thoughts and prayers; Intel targets private 5G networks; and AT&T divested its entertainment business.

Successfully disrupting ransomware campaigns and infrastructure will require “a step beyond” the traditional public-private partnership, Talos’ Matt Olney said.

Bell Canada ties 5G ambitions to Amazon Web Services; and catch up on this week's top news with the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap podcast.

Huawei wants to prove security critics wrong; ransomware gangs provide security tips; and Verizon pushed private 5G for enterprises.

The latest update to Cisco's DNA Center management console delivers ThousandEyes integrations, machine learning insights, and lower barriers for zero-trust networking.

AT&T appears to be the home team network for the homeland, having landed about 40% of federal agency network modernization contracts to date.

VMware names a new CEO; Nutanix's CEO talks layoffs; and other top headcount moves that happened across the industry in May.

AT&T is on a roll with the federal government. It's landed multiple 9-figure wins with some of the country's largest federal agencies.

The choice for SIEMs and security analytics platforms is thus: Innovate or die.

Juniper's Apstra gets cozier with VMware; Exabeam moves into XDR; and Microsoft adds Azure Arc developer depth.

“Fusion XDR defines what we’ve been doing for the past several years with our analytics, detection, and response capabilities when we’re not being a full SIEM,” Exabeam’s Adam Geller

“It’s almost like ransomware is now just a side business to the to the overall extortion business,” Dmitri Alperovitch said during an RSA Conference keynote about the global threat

“But as we've been looking back into our history … they were doing very early recon activities in January of 2019,” SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna said.

AT&T Cyber hunts government threats; Netflix and VMware talk security lessons learned; and Palo Alto Networks zeroes in on zero trust.

VMware’s Angela Weinman and Netflix InfoSec Chief Jimmy Sanders tackled three cybersecurity “hard truths” in an RSA keynote, and discussed how these truths can lead to more resilient security.

The product operates from Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud, but can also be integrated into Microsoft Azure Government or Google Cloud’s government cloud environments.