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Among organizations using attack-specific playbooks, only 45% had plans for ransomware attacks. “If you have no other playbook, at least have one for ransomware,” said IBM VP Wendi Whitmore. Read more.

Dish closed its $1.4 billion purchase of Boost Mobile, gaining more than 9.3 million customers from the divestiture of Sprint’s prepaid business by T-Mobile US. Read more.

“The rollout of new technologies like 5G may be delayed, but only in the short term,” GSMA's Mats Granryd said. Read more.

Silver Peak customers can now enhance their SD-WAN visibility using Kentik's network intelligence platform. Read more.

VMware customers can now migrate workloads to Google Cloud Platform using the cloud provider's VMware Engine service. Read more.

Cisco rolled out its SASE ambitions; Verizon teased its forthcoming DSS launch for nationwide 5G; and cryptominers attacked Azure. Read more.