The launch represents the culmination of more than a year and a half of work, said SonicWall's Dmitriy Ayrapetov.

However, Fortinet’s revenue growth in the second half of 2019 and first quarter of 2020 actually outpaced Palo Alto Networks.

Cisco bought AppDynamics, an application performance management company, for $3.7 billion in 2017.

“It’s a hot market, we have a hot product, and that automatically makes the company valuable,” said Bitglass CTO and co-founder Anurag Kahol.

While discussing SD-WAN and VMware's emerging SASE offering, COO Rajiv Ramaswami opened a can of worms on the efficacy of service chaining.

Edgewise Networks CEO Peter Smith discusses the rapid shift to remote work because of COVID-19 and how zero-trust security can help.

This programmable fabric with embedded security functions will allow network operators to deploy firewalls as software-based platforms rather than hardware appliances, according to AT&T.

Perimeter-based security is no longer sufficient, security surfaces and compute demands are ballooning, and so is network complexity, said Fortinet CEO Ken Xie.

“We see a tremendous opportunity to create a multi-billion-dollar security company,” Poonen said. “And we have a starting point of a billion, so that’s a really good place to

“Part of the challenge that I have is taking all of these different technologies and tying them together into one consistent tapestry,” said CenturyLink CSO Chris Betz.

The security company scored a new $340 million investment, which puts Netskope at a $3 billion valuation.

Telia Carrier taps a Cisco network first; Intel ditches Nervana for Habana; and IBM CTO predicts edge will implode without open source.

Silver Peak's SD-WAN will join iomart's managed service portfolio, while Fortinet's FortiWeb will power Continent 8's WAF.

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud pledged to jointly develop a new multi-cloud security framework.

The integration will permit Fortinet-managed rulesets for AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF).

This includes a new External Key Manager, which allows companies to store and manage encryption keys outside of Google Cloud

“SD-WAN is the gateway for security,” MEF CTO Pascal Menezes said during his keynote at MEF 2019.

This provides a consistent operational security model for customers running applications on Azure.

The new option is also packaged as part of the company’s broader Cloud Application Protection platform.

SASE combines elements of SD-WAN and network security into a single cloud-managed package.

The report noted that some EU members have “identified that certain non-EU countries represent a particular cyber threat to their national interests."

Cisco disclosed more than two dozen vulnerabilities in its network automation software and one critical bug in its network security products.

It’s based on technology that VMware acquired when it bought public cloud security startup CloudCoreo last year.

Avi’s platform includes a software load balancer, web application firewall, analytics and monitoring, and a universal service mesh.