Cisco joins South Korea's digital push; FBI hacks computers to kill Exchange web shells; and Vodaphone Germany activates Europe's first 5G standalone network.

Also on Tuesday, the NSA alerted Microsoft to more critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely compromise Exchange email systems.

The partnership marks the SASE vendor's first communications service provider collaboration.

Masergy's AIOps platform is trained on 20 years of network, security, application data in order to identify and remediate performance challenges.

VMware detailed modern bank heists strategies; Google teamed up with Broadcom on security; Mavenir readied massive MIMO radios with Xilinx.

Cybercrime cartels know that banks’ nonpublic market information is their most valuable asset, and criminals can use it to facilitate digital insider trading and front running.

The company unleashed a wave of updates to its Edge Services Platform designed to make adopting a SASE architecture simpler and more flexible.

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C.

AWS, Alibaba, Microsoft got FaaS and furious; Juniper scored a data center win; and Oracle got SASE with Check Point.

Oracle is a fairly late entrant into the market. At this point all of the major networking and security vendors offer their own SASE platform

VMware merges telco, edge, SASE oversight; Cisco nabs NEC to expand its 5G reach; and Fujitsu taps Trend Micro's private 5G network security.

The Series D follows three years of growth for the company, which has seen a five-fold increase in customers and 800% revenue growth during that time.

The companies will test Trend Micro’s private 5G network security software in a simulated smart factory and an operational environment.

The reorganization effort resulted in the creation of VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit and is being led by Sanjay Uppal, SVP and GM of the unit.

Palo Alto Networks championed automation in security; T-Mobile got edge-y; and ex-Viptela execs tackled multi-cloud.

The update to Arista's CloudVision platform introduces new network automation templates, streaming telemetry, and wireless insights.

The new launch expands customer choice for a fully managed service that is operated and supported by the vendor.

The startup's AXI platform takes advantage of existing cloud infrastructure and layers on security and visibility functionality to address multi-cloud challenges.

The Carbon Black Cloud tooling update aims to "bridge the gap between the SOC team and DevOps team,” VMware Carbon Black's Shemer Schwarz explained.

FortiCWP Container Guardian secures container registries from vulnerabilities and scans for misconfigurations to protect Kubernetes workloads.

The new product brings SaaS application protection into the Dell Technologies PowerProtect portfolio for Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Microsoft 365.

The percentage of companies that said they sacrificed the security of mobile devices to “get the job done” increased from 43% in the 2020 report to 45% this year.

Amazon tapped former VP Selipsky to helm AWS; Nokia slashed more than 2,000 jobs in 2020; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise is expanding its Ireland workforce.

Megaport tied its NaaS platform into Cisco SD-WAN; VMware tapped Knative for Tanzu Kubernetes abstraction; and Nokia plugged a triple-threat enterprise strategy.