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As Google works to gain cloud market share and unseat Microsoft, Google CEO Sundar Pichai pointed to security as a competitive differentiator and “our strongest product portfolio.” Read more.

Microsoft banked $16.5 billion in net income on $46.2 billion in revenue, marking a 47% year-over-year increase in profit and a 21% revenue jump. Read more.

The chipmaker's revenues topped $3.85 billion in Q2 — nearly twice that of the year-ago quarter. Read more.

The bottom line is that the companies that adopted some level of zero trust are in a better position to deal with data breaches, IBM Security's Limor Kessem said. Read more.

This year’s The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals report found 38% of respondents say lack of competitive compensation is the No. 1 reason for the skills shortage. Read more.

The announcement comes just over a month after Orange launched a SASE service based on Palo Alto Networks' Prisma Access platform. Read more.

“I think there is a tendency among many infrastructure projects, including Istio, to want to do more, and to want to solve broader classes of problems. And I think that's the wrong approach for infrastructure," said Buoyant's William Morgan. Read more.