“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.

XDR is a core tool for modern security operation centers.

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

There is a financial reward for operators that can.

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Recent acquisitions build on the carrier's core network capabilities.

Zscaler found an unprecedented ransom payout of $75 million to the Dark Angels ransomware group – the largest ever paid by one company.

The vendor plans to introduce SD-WAN hardware to support the traffic demands within larger campuses and data center environments.

“From a technical perspective, the carriers are standardizing on the eSIM and use it," Netskope's Joe DePalo said.

Wiz posted substantial revenue growth versus its cloud-native application protection platform competitors.

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

“CrowdStrike just created the best argument against consolidation and platformization: widespread outages” - Forrester's Jeff Pollard

Think use cases like the military, digital imaging, manufacturing, and energy.

Forrester identified Palo Alto Networks and Cisco as leaders in its latest operational technology security solutions report.

Small vendors will "expect fire-sale acquisitions to larger infrastructure vendors, bankruptcies and radical specialization," Forrester's David Holmes said.

'As far as I’m concerned, they’re the best product in the market,' Adaptiv Networks CEO Bernard Breton said of rival Cato Networks

"The battleground has really shifted over the past 12 months. It's no longer about pre-authentication/before login attacks," David Bradbury said.

“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.

“5G RedCap is creating an opening to drive 5G device volumes in the IoT domain,” ABI Research's Dan Shey stated.

Gartner labeled Fortinet and Versa Networks as challengers; Cisco as a visionary; and CloudFlare, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Forcepoint as niche players.

“We have others that we support, but the way I like to say it is we want to be intentionally great at a handful," Nitel's Mike Frane said.

The report showed 87% of organizations experienced a breach in the last year that they can partially attribute to a lack of cybersecurity skills.