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The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Zscaler CEO details edge over large security firms and niche SASE rivals
“We think SD-WAN has to go away, it'll be replaced with zero-trust SD-WAN," Jay Chaudhry said.
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Cloudflare enhances ZTNA, SASE with BastionZero buy
The deal “will allow our customers to further replace VPNs beyond apps and networks and into infrastructure,” Cloudflare's Nitin Rao said
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Lacework's SSE offering taps CSPs to bring security to the network edge
"Lacework Edge intercepts attacks earlier in the attack life cycle, complementing CNAPP use cases for existing users," Lacework's Trevor Welsh said
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How Illumio microsegmentation and Netskope ZTNA integration 'gets zero trust covered'
The partnership may further broaden to the security services edge and secure access service edge space in the future
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Palo Alto Networks lands 60+ platformization deals in fiscal Q3
"We see a runway to delivering approximately 2,500-plus platformizations sales, up from the current 900," by fiscal year 2030, CEO Nikesh Arora said
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CyberArk to acquire Venafi for $1.54B to secure human and machine identities
“40% of CyberArk’s business is outside the Americas, compared with Venafi’s 26%, which provides opportunities to drive growth geographically," Clarence Hinton said
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SIEM and UEBA vendors LogRhythm and Exabeam to merge, analysts express mixed feelings
Forrester analysts argue the LogRhythm and Exabeam merger is “a classic case of opposites attract”
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Dell confirms data breach: Hacker claims sale of 49M customer records
"We don’t believe there is a significant risk to our customers given the type of information involved," Dell wrote in a statement
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68 tech and security titans commit to building secure software
Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google and Microsoft are among companies that have signed Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Secure by Design pledge
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Akamai to acquire Noname for $450M to reduce API security threats
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024.
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CrowdStrike's ‘safety net’ catches the breaches that Microsoft Defender misses
“We are doing this primarily because customers that who are just purely running Microsoft are unable to stop the breach to keep their estates safe,” CrowdStrike's Raj Rajamani said.
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AT&T Cybersecurity becomes a separate business, rebranded as LevelBlue
WillJam Ventures is now the majority owner of LevelBlue, with AT&T retaining a minority ownership stake and board representation in the new entity
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Palo Alto Networks enters SASE 3.0, partners with AWS and Google for app acceleration
The new capabilities are built on technologies from Palo Alto Networks' latest acquisitions including Talon Cyber Security and Zycada Networks
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Akamai combines ZTNA, microsegmentation, MFA into zero-trust platform
The Akamai Guardicore Platform uses generative artificial intelligence to streamline the zero-trust implementation.
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Private equity giant Thoma Bravo to buy Darktrace for $5.3B to bolster its $45B cybersecurity portfolio
Darktrace currently has more than 2,300 employees globally and over 9,400 customers including KPMG, City of Las Vegas, Aston Martin and McLaren Group
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Siemens product impacted by Palo Alto Networks firewall vulnerability
The vulnerability (CVE-2024-3400) has the highest severity score of 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System.
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Snowflake unveils open LLM for cost-effective enterprise use cases
In a move toward openness, the company is releasing Arctic’s weights under an Apache 2.0 license and details of the research leading to how it was trained.
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Comcast launches MDR for enterprises, taps Rapid7’s SecOps
The solution combines Comcast Business’s security services with Rapid7’s security operations platform and expertise.
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Cloud security unicorn Wiz in talks to acquire rival Lacework
Wiz is reportedly looking to buy Lacework for just $150-$200 million, despite Lacework being valued at $8.3 billion after a recent funding round.
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Cisco redesigns data center security in AI era, calls Hypershield its 'most consequential security innovation'
The Cisco Hypershield is “probably the most consequential security innovation we have done in the 40 years that Cisco has been around,” EVP Jeetu Patel said
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Cisco Duo warns supplier breach exposed MFA SMS logs
The breach potentially some exposed message logs containing data like phone numbers that used SMS or voice-based multifactor authentication through Cisco Duo.
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Palo Alto Networks optimizes XSIAM for better cloud visibility
Cortex XSIAM for Cloud is optimized for cloud environments, offering a consolidated view of cloud assets, SVP Gonen Fink said
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Zscaler acquires Airgap Networks to enhance zero-trust segmentation and SASE
Zscaler plans to combine its Zero Trust SD-WAN solution with Airgap Networks’ agentless segmentation technology for zero-trust segmentation. -
Snowflake previews genAI-based SQL Copilot
Snowflake combines its proprietary SQL generation model with the Mistral Large text generation model to create a text-to-SQL engine for Snowflake Copilot.