While the global cybersecurity workforce has grown to help defend against mounting threats, the gap of required workers remains at an all-time high.

“The longer this goes on the more painful for the customers and shareholders in the companies,” Dell'Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez said.

“We shouldn't be asking the CISO and their teams to figure out the financial impact, that's just absolute insanity,” said Nasdaq's Christopher Hetner.

Palo Alto Networks, SentinelOne, ESET, Sophos, Trellix and Broadcom are named as strong performers in the report.

“Change management is extremely important when any new technology comes into the enterprise," Randstad Digital CEO Venu Lambu said.

New VP Ankur Jain said the hyperscaler remains comfortable as a facilitator for private networks.

Investors shared concerns there might be "an inherent volatility" in Microsoft's cloud business.

As organizations move further into hybrid cloud, data privacy and data security are becoming even more closely intertwined, IBM's Akiba Saeedi said.

The FTC says issues involving competition and fairness could arise around control of the key building blocks of generative artificial intelligence: data, talent and computational resources.

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The message is that "risk management needs to be elevated to an enterprise-level, with key leadership involvement," Gartner's Katell Thielemann said.

“This gap will widen as developers increasingly use AI [artificial intelligence] to write and deploy code more quickly,” SVP Ankur Shah said.

"The companies that are really betting big on open RAN, they're going to have to survive the winter," Mobile Experts' Joe Madden said.

The cable giant is looking to grow its private networks business in a market it sees as just now starting to gain momentum.

While horizontal AI is broad-reaching and can be layered across multiple industries and use cases, vertical AI is tailor-made for specific ones.

Piecing together the right discovery, protection and management tools for multicloud environments remains a challenge.

Next-generation security companies are typically built at the point of an imbalanced supply and demand of capital in the cycle, said Richard Seewald.

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"I don't want to sound crazy, but like vacations on the moon could be possible, and those are our big dollars,” EY's Michael Misrahi said.

"The impairment does not alter Ericsson’s positive outlook on the … market potential," the vendor explained.

Juniper's restructuring and organizational changes are a sign of the times and other networking companies, such as Cisco, are on a similar path.