Here are the top stories SDxCentral wrangled this week related to SDN, NFV, cloud, and virtualization infrastructure:

Our coverage of Black Hat USA 2016 included lessons from an IoT hack on a networked light bulb and an argument that "human stupidity" isn't the real problem in security.

Cisco, Nokia & Ciena Make List of Top SDN Vendors — IHS makes its picks in SDN orchestration.

Arista Hoards Inventory During Cisco Litigation — With a strong second quarter, Arista keeps on rolling.

Here are the week’s strays and stragglers we roped for you:

Big Switch Networks opened an office in Australia.

Palo Alto Networks added a new functionality to its Traps advanced endpoint protection offering.

NEC and Netcracker provided a virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) to the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Intel Security to introduced a McAfee Unified Security product including technology from Allot.

Citrix signed a distribution agreement with Cloud DC.

Software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) provider CloudGenix announced a partner program.

Here are the other stories SDxCentral covered this week: