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Ericsson CEO Faces Personal Liability for Iraq Misconduct Crisis

The crisis and assumed penalties that will be levied against Ericsson have slashed the Swedish company’s value by at least 25%. Read more.

AWS Taps Palo Alto Networks for Cloud-Native, Next-Gen Firewall

The deal merges next-generation firewall capabilities with public cloud scalability and management. Read more.

VMware, Cato, Versa Claim Unified SASE Title

Dell'Oro Group noted the three vendors were the only secure access service edge vendors offering an integrated networking and security stack. Read more.

Defense Department Delays Multi-Cloud Contracts

The Pentagon has reached out to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle on the newly named Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability initiative. Read more.