NB454: Is Bad InfoSec Now Securities Fraud?

We discuss potential repercussions for security executives after the SEC charges Solar Winds’ CISCO with fraud, examine a new SD-LAN offering from Versa Networks that aims to integrate security controls into a campus fabric, and discuss a new open-source tool from Cloudflare for scrubbing sensitive authentication tokens from HAR files. Extreme Networks posts strong revenues for fiscal Q1 2024 but still gets digned by Wall Street for a weaker Q2 outlook, Fortinet sees share prices dip after barely missing its own revenue guidance for fiscal Q3 2023, and HPE strips the Aruba branding from its Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) offering. Get links to all these stories below. Sponsor: Nokia Nokia has introduced a new application that runs on its SR Linux network OS. Using ChatGPT, this application lets you query your network devices using natural language. You can query about network state, ask troubleshooting questions, check configurations, search logs, and quickly sort through reams of documentation. Nokia recorded a demo of the tool with Ethan Banks from the Packet Pushers. See it in action here. Tech Bytes: VMware Stick around for our Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by VMware, which delves into HPE’s partnership with VMware on  HPE Greenlake for VMware Cloud Foundation. We discuss how the partnership benefits customers’ multi-cloud initiatives and how VMware and HPE Greenlake can help customers take advantage of AI by providing scalable hardware and software infrastructure for training and inference. Show Links: SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures – SEC SEC Complaint (PDF) Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance – Hiscox UK SEC sues SolarWinds for misleading investors before 2020 hack – Bleeping Computer Silver Lake, Thoma Bravo-Backed SolarWinds Said to Mull Sale – Bloomberg Versa Transforms Branch and Campus Networks with Industry’s First Software-Defined LAN to Natively Provide Zero Trust and IoT Security – Versa Networks Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing – Cloudflare HAR (file format) – Wikipedia Extreme Networks Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results – Extreme Networks Fortinet Reports Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results – Fortinet HPE GreenLake for Aruba is now HPE GreenLake for ...