"It is essential to give developers a voice in the applications they build," Snyk's Randall Degges told SDxCentral.

“[Enterprises] see this massive financial risk attached to network-as-a-service," analyst Reece Hayden said.

Threat actors could also use layoffs as a recruiting opportunity, Gartner analyst Paul Furtado said. "They're essentially crime syndicates.”

CISO's mandate "is now about driving the many risks present in today’s enterprise ... to effectively zero,” Lacework CTO Vikram Kapoor said.

“We've got to move away from the sizzle and no steak, away from these wonderful sound bites to focusing efforts on real results," said Franklin Reed.

It goes beyond addressing "the core needs of a data engineering team," Ascend CEO Sean Knapp told SDxCentral.

“Sales leaders who are unwilling to challenge existing recruitment efforts stand to miss out on highly qualified candidates,” Gartner warned.

Executives from vendors that Gartner says offer complete secure access service edge solutions give their 2023 predictions for the evolving market.

Enterprises are starting to have a better idea of "what our workforce looks like today and will look like into the future,” IDC's Brandon Butler said.

Xilinx has been a “behemoth to try and integrate” but has led to a promising marriage of roadmaps to “go really big in AI," AMD's Ruth Cotter explained.

It's a balance "of reminding ourselves that the numbers are people and that the work that we do is deeper than hiring targets," Crystal Moore said.

SDxCentral listed Snyk, Cybereason, Netskope, Lacework, and Illumio as the security unicorns that we expected to go public in 2022, but none of those happened.

"Telecom vendors are moving toward as-a-service business outcome-based offerings," said NTT VP Amit Dhingra.

“Operators will be under pressure from investors to raise prices in line with inflation," Analysys Mason Partner Tom Rebbeck told SDxCentral.

"I feel like I could actually just scream," Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Hewitt said of the talent shortage's tenacity.

“The thing I love about Cisco is we are encouraged to have what we call 'courageous conversations,'” said the Native American Network ERG Co-Lead.

"I know in the quantum realm, our biggest challenge is people and the workforce and talent development," Laura Thomas said.

Telecom may "now have an opportunity to hire top talent who may have been far less likely to close over the past [three or more] years."

“Many decision makers don’t have the experience to navigate the complexity across the litany of software-defined networking technologies,” GTT's Todd Kiehn said.

The cuts are part of a workforce “rebalancing" that comes on the heels of a robust earnings release and strong full-year guidance.

Citizen developers are "a bit of amateurs, and they're not really trained on things like application security or data sensitivity," VP Chris Gardner said.

"I see Tanzu as a strategic part of the VMware software portfolio and it will remain that way as we move forward within Broadcom," Tan wrote.

“I'm very focused on getting women from the midpoint of their career to the top. It's not enough to get them in, burn them out, and let them go,"

IT investment for the near term will focus on seizing uncertainty and "challenge thinking and change expectations," Gartner's Daryl Plummer said.