“When you look at the shared donor that Symantec has imparted on us, we were happy to see Carbon Black and VMware be acquired,” CrowdStrike CFO Burt Podbere said.

“If you look at ransomware, it's a business, it's financially motivated,” CSW CEO Aaron Sandeen said.

"Cybersecurity, which has become a broad sustainability issue, [is] threatening our evolving connected society," Fortinet's Barbara Maigret said.

CrowdStrike’s introduced a centralized dashboard for both Falcon Horizon and Falcon cloud workload protection modules for its cloud security portfolio.

The partnership with Microsoft “is going strong … That's not something that's changed and that's not going to change,” Mandiant CTO Marshall Heilman said.

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

One of the early appointments by the new administration was that of David Recordon as director of technology in the White House’s Office of Management and Administration. Recordon has