The Australian federal government blames Optus for the breach, and has flagged an overhaul of privacy rules and higher fines.

TELUS will use Palo Alto Networks’ cloud workload protection platforms for its cloud-native network functions.

Twilio announces a restructuring plan; Forrester calls hybrid cloud the norm; and Verizon touts its 5G milestones.

Secure access service edge is "the No. 1 project in every large-scale company," Chief Business Officer Amit Singh said.

Aurora Solar hits a 10 million milestone; VMware says cloud migration depends on a culture shift; and Illumio tests microsegmentation.

The Bishop Fox team took 10 minutes to stop the ransomware attack using microsegmentation and endpoint detection and response services in the test.

Versa VP Tony Fallows told SDxCentral the initial Axiata deployments “should be up and ready and in market this year.”

Users can now view and configure security settings for software-as-as-service apps in a “single, unified business SASE portal,” SVP Anand Oswal said.

T-Mobile, Elon Musk's SpaceX collab; Buoyant releases latest version of Linkerd; and VMware reports financials prior to Broadcom acquisition.

“The big driver for Linkerd is network security, and especially this idea of zero-trust security for Kubernetes,” CEO William Morgan said.

"The largest enterprise [SASE] deal is head-to-head with two vendors. Very rarely do we see a third," CEO Nikesh Arora said.

Fortinet reports ransomware variants almost doubled in the first half of 2022; GlobalData on data consumption patterns; and Code42 reports on insider risk.

The biggest thing to know about zero trust is that it's “not an end state, and it's not a product,” Forrester's Heath Mullins said.

SMB IT spending will hit $1.4 trillion in 2022; AWS launches its commercial Private 5G platform; and Cradlepoint releases NetCloud Exchange.

The extension delivers three products – Secure Connect, Advanced SD-WAN, and Zero Trust Network Access – using the NetCloud Exchange Service Gateway.

Hackers impersonate popular orgs to deploy phishing scams; Splunk on zero-trust architecture; and Cisco warns of cybercrime trends.

Code42 and Nullafi collab to combat insider risks; former CISA director's cybersecurity landscape expectations; and Gartner on emerging tech.

Until full secure access service edge is achievable, “security convergence is better than no convergence," Cato's CMO said.

CEO Vince Kent said a key secure access service edge requirement for cloudIT is the ability for its clients to have legacy options.

“This is a stark reminder that enterprise leaders need to look at mobile security as a must-have,” Verizon Business' Mike Riley said.

“This is massive growth,” Mauricio Sanchez, Dell’Oro research director, network security and SASE/SD-WAN told SDxCentral.

“A lot of our customers are struggling with this whole concept of SASE,” said Comcast's Amit Verma.

"The true cost of a data breach is often not fully realized immediately following the event," Black Kite's Ferhat Dikbiyik said.

“It really is beautiful, the way that [Infiot has] built and designed this, and were heavily focused on the development of the product,” Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri said.