Bug Bounties Jump 33% With $11.7M Paid to Hackers Last Year
Some companies and governments are now offering as much as $250,000 to find and fix security flaws, according to the Hacker-Powered Security Report.
Intel Buys a Programmable Chip Company to Prepare for 5G
Programmable chips will play a key role in 5G networks because complex processing will be necessary in the baseband and the base station.
Stordis and Barefoot Lead Open Source Networking in Europe
Its vision is to replace the hardware, software, and services that operators have traditionally gotten from telecom vendors such as Cisco and Dell EMC.
Check Point: Cryptominers Oust Ransomware as Most Prominent Malware
Check Point’s mid-year report on cyber attack trends found that in 2018 new (and old) strains of malware are attacking cloud environments, mobile devices, and other burgeoning technologies.
Investors Question Broadcom’s Sanity Following CA Technologies Purchase
EMA Senior Analyst Shamus McGillicuddy says this deal has less to do with Broadcom's technology strategy and everything to do with money.
Netskope Scoops Up Sift Security for More Cloud Threat Protection
Sift’s product, Cloud Hunter, uses machine learning, analytics, and graph visualization capabilities to detect and respond to threats across infrastructure-as-a-service platforms.
Huawei Faces Scrutiny Over Claims It Infiltrated a Closed Facebook TIP Meeting
A former Huawei employee says he was fired for refusing to use a fake company name to gain access to the private TIP gathering. Huawei says this is just a labor dispute, and the claims are groundless.
Dell EMC Comes Out Swinging Against Cohesity, Rubrik
Dell EMC’s new device provides converged data protection, and comes bundled with software for backup, deduplication, replication and recovery, along with disaster recovery and long-term retention to the cloud.
Broadcom Buys CA Technologies for $18.9 Billion
Following the tumultuous purchase of Brocade (that reportedly led to the layoffs of 1,100 employees) and the blocked purchase of Qualcomm — Broadcom seeks to diversify its portfolio with the purchase of the monitoring software company.
Radisys Launches Accelerator to Make ORAN and 5G Faster to Deploy
The program is intended to bring together open source products that can quickly be deployed by service providers.
Telco Systems, FatPipe Networks Build SD-WAN to Run on x86, ARM Architectures
The joint offering enables providers to mix and match SD-WAN components and services, without being tied to a specific hardware.
What Do VCs Want in Security Startups? Dell Tech Capital Dishes
Dell Technologies’ venture arm invests about $100 million annually in technology startups, and about a quarter of that goes to security companies.
IT Guys Created the SD-WAN Vendor SimpleWAN out of Necessity in 2014
“We didn’t know the term SD-WAN,” said SimpleWAN’s CEO. But he needed some way to remotely manage the IT network of branch offices.
Dark Web Sells Airport Network Access For Cheap, McAfee Says
Threat researchers discovered that access to multiple U.S. government systems are being sold worldwide on these shops for as little as $10.
The Next Evolution of SD-WAN
In this eBrief from SDxCentral, we take an in-depth look at some of the latest developments in SD-WAN and how the technology promises to provide better security, as well as new features.
Nokia Scores $1.17B Deal with China Mobile
Nokia won the one-year deal to provide an array of equipment, software, and services, including some 5G technology.
Security Is the Top Concern for Enterprises as They Select a Data Center Switch Vendor, Says IHS Markit
Cisco, Dell, HPE, Juniper, and Huawei were identified as the top five data center Ethernet switch vendors by enterprises.
Hong Kong-Based Citic Telecom Rolls SD-WAN Product Across Europe
The managed service provider plans to expand its SD-WAN service to central Asia and Russia.
AT&T Beefs Up Security With AlienVault Acquisition
AT&T says it will continue to invest in the Open Threat Exchange, an open threat intelligence community started by AlienVault.
IBM’s Latest All-Flash Storage Array ‘Is All About Software’
The new FlashSystem 9100 supports NVMe now and will support NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage class memory (SCM) in the future.