“Zero trust is the most abused word in cybersecurity,” Anand Oswal said.

Al El Kaafarani predicts 20% of the dominant players in each sector will start the post-quantum cryptography migration process this year.

Laying out a post-quantum security strategy is a multi-year process, Deloitte's Colin Soutar said.

The Aspen Institute estimates that 9% of cybersecurity workers are Black, 4% are Hispanic, 1% are Native American, and 24% are women.

There remain challenges in multicloud connectivity, cloud-native migrations, and domain specific artificial intelligence.

“We're selling security, and we have to ... drink our own champagne and prove that we're also having the best security posture internally," Wael Faheem said.

Forrester noted when planning for the post-quantum migration, security, and research leaders often have to contend with some mixed messages.

The $1.1 billion impairment charge was tied to “lower anticipated market growth rates in Vonage’s current portfolio.”

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said.

Enterprise and partner outreach are top of mind.

Forrester's recent Wave report for OT security solutions identified Cisco and Palo Alto Networks as leaders.

“It's a massive mindset change because it's not about telco network technologies anymore. It's about the cloud," Analysys Mason's Gorkem Yigit said.

“If you don't get the good relationship going you're going to push something for the OT people that they don't want," Omdia's Pablo Tomasi warned.

Traditional telecom operators are in a prime position for some of the $13 billion in enterprise spend expected by 2028.

The firm spent considerable time researching vendors for its digital transformation efforts that span from “Argentina to China.”

Analyst firms expect billions-of-dollars in opportunity.

False assumptions and applying old patterns to new technologies are among the key pitfalls CISOs must address, Gartner's Richard Bartley said.

As technology evolves and businesses need leaders specialized in increasingly complex areas more execs are getting “C’s” in front of their titles.

Gartner's Peter Firstbrook predicts many existing security information and event management vendors will either be acquired by larger firms, shift toward niche markets or go out of business.

"Because of the width of Nokia, we understand the network end to end," Raghav Sahgal, president of Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services division, said.

More is expected of the modern CISO than keeping up with security threats and ensuring patches are made. It’s all about people and communications.

European Union antitrust regulators have reportedly asked Broadcom about recent changes the company has made to VMware licensing provisions.

CEO Börje Ekholm Ekholm dampened enthusiasm toward full-year growth, noting estimates of the market declining 4% this year “may prove optimistic.”

Juniper Research specifically cited the use of cloud technologies to support APIs that adhere to the open source Camara project.