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Nitel Nabs Hypercore to Boost SD-WAN Growth

Nitel last week acquired Hypercore Networks in a move CEO Margi Shaw said is part of an “inorganic growth strategy” for the Chicago-based network provider. Read more.

Cloudflare Claims Completion of Zero-Trust Platform

Cloudflare added several new capabilities to its zero-trust and secure access service edge (SASE) platform, called Cloudflare One. Read more.

Securing ‘Sensitive Data’ Is Harder Than You Think

The term varies widely between business verticals so much so that pinning down what sensitive data means to one company versus another and then securing that data has become a challenge in and of itself. Read more.

NEC Boosts 5G Open RAN SI Capabilities

NEC says it’s still early innings in the open radio access network (RAN) game, but that operators will need integration help to get the most benefit from what the technology can provide. Read more.

7 Layers: FINOS Touts Fintech’s Open Source Future

We are joined today by Gabriele Columbro, who's the executive director of the FinTech Open Source Foundation to talk about that group and its work with open source security and the financial community. Stream now.