“Not surprisingly, AI [artificial intelligence] is a significant factor, impacting the 2024 trends," Forrester's Geoff Cairns said.

"I don't think it's a hype anymore because people are seeing it in action already in a lot of places," said PwC's Prakash Venkata.

Palo Alto Networks announced an agreement to acquire IBM's QRadar software-as-a-service assets, including intellectual property rights.

The report findings also underscored the tension between the need for rapid development and the imperative of maintaining security.

Gartner named Splunk, Microsoft, IBM, Securonix and Exabeam as leaders in its 2024 Magic Quadrant for SIEM report.

CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev also listed the benefits and potential risks of applying generative artificial intelligence to your cybersecurity infrastructure.

Cybercriminals "can afford to pay more people now. They have more sophisticated tools at hand," said Fortinet's Derek Manky.

Splunk operates as a separate business unit from Cisco's security group, according to Jeetu Patel.

HPE Aruba Networking lays out a path for artificial intelligence-powered network security and observability capabilities.

Palo Alto Networks unveiled its proprietary artificial intelligence system that combines generative AI, machine learning and deep learning capabilities.

Andre Durand noted the customer concerns on the merger are primarily about the potential for forced change and a slowdown in innovation.

The report also showed the median loss associated with ransomware and extortion almost doubled.

Not only is OpenTofu 1.7 an open source technology that can potentially replace Hashicorp's Terraform, it goes a step further with a series of new features.

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.

“The vendors are expanding their capabilities as well as the buyers are interested in consolidating,” Gartner's Craig Porter said.

2023 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey showed 11% of participants said they had no women on their security teams and half of them worked in the U.S.

Other top cybersecurity threats include narrative attacks, artificial intelligence responses and nation-state espionage.

ISC2's study found “a significant disparity between genders,” which underlines the continued existence of the gender pay gap in the cybersecurity industry.

Abusing a domain name system query known as NXDOMAIN is a popular distributed denial of service technique. Akamai's new Shield NS53 aims to defend against it.

"If we find that [companies] are just putting AI to raise money, we do not invest," said Thomvest Ventures's Umesh Padval.

Vendors that are taking market share and that are on the upswing are highly engaged across the executive, technical and marketing teams.

Trend Micro observed a clear drop in the number of actual LockBit infections following Operation Cronos.

In a scathing report, Microsoft was cited for a series of avoidable errors, failure to detect compromises and slow corrections to inaccurate public statements.

"Ultimately it is shadow IT all over again, but with chatbots," Google's Anton Chuvakin said.