Dish faults technical difficulties for its 5G delays; IBM warns ransomware follows the cloud migration; and Ericsson rises to the top of the RAN market.

Microsoft also extended its native cloud security capabilities to Google Cloud in addition to its existing AWS and Azure support.

Dubbed Forcepoint One, the SSE platform offers customers the full suite of SASE security features minus the networking baggage.

F5 expanded its application security portfolio; Nokia and Kyndryl expanded their private 5G partnership; and Snyk acquired Fugue.

The combined technology also puts Snyk, riding high on an $8.5 billion valuation, in an even better position to make good on its DevSecOps domination dreams.

Google Cloud landed a contract with the U.S. DoD; Intel is betting big on RISC-V; and HPE Aruba touts its earlier start on NaaS than rival Cisco.

Aruba’s NaaS portfolio “encompasses everything that we're doing,” CTO David Hughes said.

The cloud provider says the contract win sets “the stage for potential broader adoption across defense agencies worldwide.”

A recent Google Cybersecurity Action Team report found 86% of compromised cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining.

Lacework extended its Polygraph platform; Cisco released new routing platforms; and we need to talk about mental health in cybersecurity.

In addition to Google Cloud and early Azure support, Lacework also unveiled a new name for its core cloud security platform: Polygraph Data Platform.

The FCC allocated $1.2 billion to fund broadband deployments; Pluribus released the seventh generation of its SDN platform; and Cisco has big dreams of growing its Networking Academy.

The firewall service is Juniper's latest push to compete against rival SASE vendors like Cisco and Palo Alto Networks on the cloud security front.

Organizations with tightly integrated DevSecOps principles are more than nine times more likely to have low levels of security friction.

Expereo nabbed Cato Networks for managed SASE; Hunters scored $68 million in a Series C funding.

The Amsterdam-based service provider now offers managed SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud security services to more than 190 countries.

The acquisition comes on the heels of Orca’s $550 million extended Series C round, which boosted its valuation to about $1.8 billion.

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the WAN; Arctic Wolf plans to IPO this year; and Equinix is developing new data center sustainability tech.

Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said future acquisitions would target incident response, threat intel, endpoint protection, and cloud security.

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

Cisco added support for Alkira’s multi-cloud networking platform; attackers used Log4j to target 44% of corporate networks; and Sysdig raised $350 million.

“The cloud security market has taken off and this is the time to expand capacity in every aspect of our business," CEO Suresh Vasudevan said.

Cloud security unicorn Wiz says more than 89% of all IT environments have vulnerable Log4j libraries.

Snyk acquired CloudSkiff; Lacework closed a record-breaking $1.3 billion funding round; and IBM acquired SXiQ.