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NEWS ZTE Participates in EANTC’s Interoperability Test advances in EVPN, SDN, and PCEP features. The test results were released at the MPLS+SDN + NFV World Congress 2018 in Paris and show that ZTE data products feature excellent interoperability and can provide the effective and pragmatic SDN solution to address the traffic optimisation and traffic scheduling demands in the operators’ existing networks and data centres. ZTE Corporation participated in the interoperability test organised by the European Advanced Networking Test Centre ZTE core routers, as well as SDN WAN controllers, including ZXR10 T8000-18, ZXR10 M6000-18S, ZXR10 M6000-8S PLUS, ZXR10 M6000-5S, ZXR10 M6000-3S and ZENIC WAN Controller, participated in the test, successfully connecting with equipment from multiple vendors in EVPN, BGP-LS and PCEP. Z “We highly appreciate ZTE’s active participation in many of this year’s multi-vendor interoperability test areas, specifically in SDN/PCEP/EVPN,” said Carsten Rossenhovel, Managing Director at EANTC. The multi-vendor interoperability test held by EANTC aims to verify the capabilities of the vendors’ equipment in supporting the Hu Longbin, Vice President of Bearer Product Line sat ZTE, added: “In the future, we will increase our R&D investment, aiming to lead the transport network innovation, play an active part in the fields of high- end router, SDN/NFV and provide our customers all around the world with quality services.” TE South Africa has revealed that ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile Internet, has participated in the public multi-vendor interoperability test organised by the European Advanced Networking Test Centre (EANTC). ///////////////// McAfee launches cloud security solution for Microsoft Azure M cAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, has extended its Cloud Security Platform to consistently protect Microsoft Azure. It will deliver the industry’s most extensive solution to secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform- as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a- Service (SaaS). The solution addresses the most critical enterprise security requirements for Microsoft Azure and empowers customers to build applications on the Microsoft Azure cloud with the peace of mind that their applications, underlying cloud infrastructure and enterprise data are protected. This announcement marks the introduction of the first joint solution following McAfee’s acquisition of Skyhigh Networks, demonstrating the company’s commitment to enhancing its Cloud Security portfolio, which now includes McAfee Skyhigh Security Cloud, McAfee Virtual Network Security Platform (McAfee vNSP) and McAfee Cloud Workload Security (McAfee CWS). www.intelligentcio.com Microsoft Azure is an important step to fulfilling this mission for our customers.” With new offerings under the McAfee Cloud Security Platform, organisations can: Rajiv Gupta from McAfee “Moving applications, data and workloads to the cloud exposes enterprises to new threats and risks,” said Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President of the cloud security business unit at McAfee. “At the same time, the adoption of cloud allows organisations to transform their business. This is why we are on a mission to make cloud the most secure environment for business. The introduction of McAfee Cloud Security Platform for • Audit security configuration settings of Microsoft Azure against best practices, identify security and compliance gaps and recommend specific actions to reduce security risks • Capture the complete audit trail of user and administrator activity to accelerate post-incident forensic investigations and monitor the spread of advance threats • Use data science and machine learning to detect insider threats and compromised accounts. • Remove malware from traffic going to, from, and within the Microsoft Azure infrastructure • Identify and prevent unauthorized sensitive data from being stored in Azure storage services, such as Blob Storage INTELLIGENTCIO 15