“The pandemic was the heyday that attackers were looking for,” said Limor Kessem, executive security advisor at IBM Security.

Executives steered clear of the bigger questions: Who will replace former CEO Pat Gelsinger? And will VMware finally split from parent company Dell Technologies?

On the company's Q2 earnings call, Ramaswami touted a “multi-million-dollar, one-year subscription deal” with a top financial services company to provide more than 90,000 virtual desktops.

Remote code execution vulnerabilities pose especially critical threats to organizations, and VMware’s stronghold in data centers worldwide give patching these flaws particular urgency.

“If they came after and disrupted our ability to respond to COVID, we would come after them using our very particular set of skills,” Krebs said, channeling Liam Neeson

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora kicked off his company’s Q2 earnings call by discussing the SolarWinds attack.

The top White House cybersecurity official said the alleged Russian hackers compromised at least 100 companies, and President Joe Biden plans to take executive action in response.

The new CloudGuard AppSec product, which is based on technology Check Point acquired from ForceNock, uses contextual AI to prevent attacks against cloud apps.

The 5-year-old startup developed a data ingestion and analytics platform that CrowdStrike says will enable it to provide contextual index-free XDR.

Extended detection and response and secure access service edge were two of the hottest security trends last year, and they don’t show any sign of slowing down in 2021.

Palo Alto Networks said it will fold the startup’s technology, which codifies infrastructure configuration during development, into its Prisma Cloud security platform.

According to the vendor’s analysis of more than 500 enterprise customers using Prisma Access, 53% of all remote workforce threats are for non-web apps.

The new product joins Dell’s hybrid cloud service, which is also available through the Cloud Console, and it builds on the instance-based offerings introduced in the fall.

Palo Alto Networks will soon change its licensing for all of its software firewalls and security services to a consumption-based model.

Overall during Q2, Cisco’s total revenue remained flat at $11.96 billion with product revenue down 1% to $8.57 billion and service revenue up 2% to $3.39 billion.

Another new feature, which is available in preview, provides insights into software-as-a-service application usage, risk levels, and trends over time.

NetWitness Detect AI’s machine learning algorithms can detect insider threats, brute force authentication, and machine-operated activities.

The vendor also added more than 300 new features to its FortiOS operating system including firewall-based zero trust network access.

Cisco Secure Application continually scans code execution to prevent exploits and can automatically block attacks, the vendor says.

The grants, valued at $500,000 each, will go to six U.S. school districts to help them proactively prepare for and respond to cyberattacks.

Google’s top brass downplayed these operating losses and attributed them to growing pains as the company invests billions of dollars to build out its enterprise cloud business.

“We are coming out with an extensive security offering, and we feel that we have most of the key things we need to be a solid security company,” Arista’s

COVID-19 forced a lot of changes in the way we work, but perhaps one of the most long-lasting effects will be the increased focus on cybersecurity.

The platform uses McAfee’s analytics engine, Mvision Insights, to provide proactive security, and this predictive element is unique to MvisionXDR, ESG analyst Jon Oltsik said.