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For all of SASE's promises, there is still a considerable amount of confusion as to how it fits into the broader security stack, AT&T Security's Rupesh Chokshi said. Read more.

“The more you can rely on not paying the ransom, the more that's going to basically take the economic incentive away” from the ransomware groups, Veritas' Simon Jelley said. Read more.

Comcast Business acquired Masergy; Cribl raised $200M during its Series C funding round; and Databricks raised $1.6B in funding. Read more.

The Linksys HomeWRK is a two-node, mesh-enabled WiFi 6 router designed to secure remote workers' homes from an ever expanding threat landscape. Read more.

But Raghu Raghuram hedged when asked if and when Tanzu will overtake the hypervisor in terms of revenue for VMware. Read more.

Following the Series F funding round, Snyk more than tripled its valuation compared to $4.7 billion at beginning of the year. Read more.

Ericsson beat Nokia to earn the No. 2 spot with a 15% market share followed by Nokia’s 14.9% take during the first six months of the year, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read more.