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Ericsson to partner with Verizon in $8.3 billion deal to expand 5G coverage

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Ericsson, a Swedish telecom company with its North American headquarters in Plano, will partner with Verizon to expand its U.S. 5G network in a $8.3 billion deal announced Friday.

Under the five-year agreement, Verizon will utilize Ericsson’s different technology solutions to expand its ultra-wideband 5G coverage. This includes the Massive MIMO, Ericsson Spectrum Sharing and the Ericsson Cloud Radio Access Network.

The deal is the single largest in Ericsson’s history, which stretches back to 1876.

“This is a significant strategic partnership for both companies, and what we’re most excited about is bringing the benefits of 5G to U.S. consumers, enterprises and the public sector,” said Niklas Heuveldop, president and head of Ericsson North America.

Ericsson and Verizon have a long track record of partnering together. In 2020, Verizon became the first communications service provider to receive a commercial 5G base station from the Ericsson smart factory in Lewisville.

Verizon wants to rapidly expand its 5G network as it competes with AT&T and T-Mobile to grant its customers reliable 5G access. The company pledged over $45.5 billion in a C-band auction that closed in February to secure more mid-band spectrum coverage.

“5G is really going to change the future,” said Karen Schulz, who works in global network and technology communications for Verizon. “The fundamental capabilities of 5G will usher in applications and innovations that we’ve never seen before.”

5G has the potential to enhance apps and technologies like augmented reality and the Internet of Things, Schulz said.

In Texas, Verizon users are connected to 5G over 12% of the time, while T-Mobile users are connected 40% of the time and AT&T users are connected over 26% of the time, according to the latest 5G User Experience Report by Opensignal. Nationally, Verizon users are connected to 5G over 10% of the time.

As 5G expands in Texas, businesses are most likely to initially see the largest changes in coverage because they can tap into the network’s full capabilities, said Ram Dantu, director of the Center for Information and Cyber Security at the University of North Texas.

“Consumers may not be able to see the…

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JFrog to acquire Vdoo to expand its end-to-end DevOps platform offering

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JFrog announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vdoo Connected Trust in a cash and stock-based deal valued at approximately $300 million.

JFrog has accelerated its efforts to provide security offering to support DevOps users as they respond to the disruption in the market for continuous software delivery. As part of the JFrog Platform, Vdoo will accelerate JFrog’s vision of becoming the company behind all software updates and creating a world of Liquid Software by expanding its end-to-end DevOps Platform offering, providing holistic security from the development environment all the way to edges, IoT and devices.

Vdoo’s security experts and vulnerability researchers will join the JFrog team to continue to develop advanced security solutions for developers and security engineers. With years of extensive experience in software architecture and vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and binary code analysis, Vdoo’s team and JFrog will seek to deliver a complete DevSecOps solution to secure the full software packages lifecycle.

Holistic approach to security meets market demand

Many of today’s DevOps solutions are missing proper security capabilities that are fully integrated into the software lifecycle. Security tools are disparate, each with its own data set, which creates friction between development and security teams, slowing the releases of software updates – especially when continuously delivering to the edge or across a large fleet of devices. As a result, many of these security tools are not delivering on the promise of fast, automated, and secure releases.

The market demands a holistic process that secures software components all the way to the edge, consolidates security data for efficient decision-making, saves time and resources, and blesses an end-to-end delivery system with the highest integrity for security-certified releases — from any source to any endpoint.

“We are excited to have Vdoo join the JFrog family,” said Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. “It is clear to us that the joint vision of changing the way software is being created, released, and updated to the edge will be our compass as we…

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With Remote Workers on the Rise, Mobile Devices Expand the Attack Surface, Exposing Critical Infrastructure and Assets

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In 2020, society endured more social, economic, and structural pressures than ever before, and CIOs, CISOs and IT professionals were confronted with waves of challenges as they scrambled to follow work-from-home mandates and do all they could to keep their teams productive in the context of constant chaos.

Large organizations, whether government agencies or commercial enterprises, had to accelerate their digital transformations, including moving more applications to the cloud, and to identify and address new cybersecurity threats while managing distributed workforces – including the IT teams.

The growth of the mobile workforce and use of company-issued devices, or personal “BYOD” smartphones, tablets, and laptops, is not new. The mobile device management industry has continued to expand over the last two decades – but few could have imagined the urgency, scope, and scale of the conversion to a “mobile first” scenario until it happened in real time.

The accelerated pace of change required business leaders to rapidly adapt their workplace culture, to create more agile communications with customers, to increase employees’ access to tools, including access to web-based information and applications, all while ensuring that the skyrocketing dependency on mobile devices did not compromise enterprise security.

According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans working remotely more than doubled in March 2020, driven by work-from-home orders in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Most experts expect at least some of this shift to be permanent. Even those who have returned partially to the traditional workplace continue to rely on mobile devices, applications, and access to enterprise systems to get work done.

Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is on the rise, delivering increased mobile flexibility and satisfaction for employees, while helping to reduce IT costs, enhance productivity, and improve security and control for enterprises. The market for BYOD solutions is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15% annually from 2020 to 2025, reaching over $430 billion in 2025 according to some industry analysts.

Mobility requires a new…

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States Expand Internet Voting Experiments Amid Pandemic, Raising Security Fears

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Voters with disabilities, as well as those who serve in the military and live overseas could cast ballots via their phone or home computer even as security experts warn the technology can’t be trusted …
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