Jeetu Patel and Tom Gillis also expect the platform approach is going to reshape the security vendor landscape.

“It's not a flip-a-switch and you are now zero trust,” Deepen Desai said.

Rick McConnell also expects significant gains from the company's years of artificial intelligence investments.

Google’s differentiation in large language model lies in its ability to externalize, vast expertise and a full-stack approach, VP Jeff Reed said.

As the secure access service edge market matures, customers are searching for the right architecture, design and vendor, Kumar Ramachandran noted.

The collaborative research found and mitigated 10 security issues in Intel Trust Domain Extensions.

Security Director Jenny Brinkley also discussed if organizations should use the term "zero trust" in security training.

These AI-driven phishing campaigns are harder to identify and counter, as they can convincingly imitate legitimate communications, the vendor noted.

Cisco was named a challenger; Skyhigh Security, Forcepoint and Lookout as "visionaries"; and Broadcom, iBoss and Cloudflare as "niche players."

The vendor reorganized its recently-formed Networking and Advanced Security business group following the departure of ex-SVP Tom Gillis.

The firm predicts nearly half of the cybersecurity leaders will change jobs by 2025.

"The [identity and access management] space is now more and more like a multiverse,” VP Analyst Homan Farahmand said.

"Spend on security products and services will continue to outperform growth in overall IT spending," said IDC's Serena Da Rold.

“When you think of the future, you can extrapolate that whoever has the best artificial intelligence wins,” Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan said.

“A major vulnerability in software that beats open source or closed source is probably inevitable,” Linux Foundation's David Wheeler said.

Gartner's Nat Smith noted Valtix's technology connects into the plumbing of the public clouds to protect each individual workload.

"There's going to be a huge shortage on the order of thousands of workers missing from the field in the next five to seven years until 2030," IBM's Olivia

Dell'Oro Group expects security service edge to “kill the traditional [secure web gateway] appliance business."

Tom Gillis discussed why he joined Cisco and his plans to differentiate Cisco’s security portfolio from other major security vendors.

NCC Group witnessed a 5% decrease in its monitored ransomware attacks in 2022.

Executives claim the custom ASICs play a big part in the vendor's firewall market dominance and have become a unique differentiator.

“It is much too early to say” what China's latest developments means for quantum computing dominance, GlobalData analyst Mike Orme said.

The survey found one-third of non-users still need proof that extended detection and response is legitimate before adoption.

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