Adopting managed services doesn’t solve the talent shortage, it just makes it someone else’s problem.

“About two-thirds of all breaches are caused by insiders, and typically when it matters is when someone's leaving the company,” Code42 CEO Joe Payne said.

“One of your best strategies is just to sit back and take every update we give you knowing that it’s been informed by this collective view,” Phil Venables said.

“We are seeing the weaponization of victims’ data from multiple threat-actor groups,” CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers said.

Both new modules come as CISOs look to consolidate security tools and converge network, endpoint, data, and workload security and telemetry.

“Zero trust has applicability not just in the government, but private sector companies need to start thinking about defending this way as well,” Splunk's Bill Wright said.

“We are very open and trying to be transparent and we believe [we are] one of the most transparent companies in the world,” Huawei USA CSO Andy Purdy said.

“Cybersecurity is always a risk decision and insurance is a risk decision. This really crosses that intersection,” said Ann Johnson, who leads Microsoft’s security business.

AT&T CSO Bill O’Hern warns the cybersecurity threat landscape is extremely intense now while “vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting is at an all-time high.”

“This is one of the fastest-growing software-as-a-service companies in history,” Lacework's co-CEO David Hatfield said.

“My primary goal is to be the XDR platform of choice, period, full stop,” said Thomas, who took the reins earlier this month following Michael Cote’s retirement.

“It’s encouraging the use of deploying point products to build a bigger footprint of tools that we know is killing security analysts already through fatigue,” Ian McShane said.

“We’re at this precipice of what the future of cyber insurance will look like and whether or not cyber insurance has a future,” Forrester senior analyst Alla Valente said.

“We see a lot of weak credentials and unpatched systems. It's the combination of those things that really drive susceptibility,” Black Kite CSO Bob Maley said.

“What we’re hearing from the customers is that they feel like the cybersecurity industry has failed them. And quite frankly, we agree,” Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said.

New threat reports from Trend Micro, McAfee, and Menlo Security put mobile security in sharp focus and indicate that IoT devices and industrial systems are increasingly at risk.

“I ultimately believe that our destiny is to be a major player in the larger category called security operations,” Exabeam CEO Michael DeCesare said.

VMware also published new threat intelligence, which highlights the need for security teams to extend their detection and prevention capabilities beyond the firewall to cover East-West traffic, Gillis said.

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.

I expect a handful of top trends and threats to dominate the discourse. And like just about everything else over the past 12 months, many of these have been

SDxCentral sat down (virtually) with Kiersten Todt, a former cybersecurity advisor to President Obama and current managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

“What networking was 10 years ago, we believe APIs will be for the next 10 years,” Data Theorem COO Doug Dooley said.

“The interesting thing about those attacks, is they’re exactly what I was warning my board about three and a half years ago,” Armis CISO Curtis Simpson said.

“A lot of organizations had seemingly good processes and controls in place pre-pandemic, but the disruption has just flipped a lot of organizations on their head,” AT&T Cybersecurity's Todd