“Cybersecurity is always a risk decision and insurance is a risk decision. This really crosses that intersection,” said Ann Johnson, who leads Microsoft’s security business.

“We’re at this precipice of what the future of cyber insurance will look like and whether or not cyber insurance has a future,” Forrester senior analyst Alla Valente said.

“We see a lot of weak credentials and unpatched systems. It's the combination of those things that really drive susceptibility,” Black Kite CSO Bob Maley said.

“What we’re hearing from the customers is that they feel like the cybersecurity industry has failed them. And quite frankly, we agree,” Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider said.

New threat reports from Trend Micro, McAfee, and Menlo Security put mobile security in sharp focus and indicate that IoT devices and industrial systems are increasingly at risk.

VMware also published new threat intelligence, which highlights the need for security teams to extend their detection and prevention capabilities beyond the firewall to cover East-West traffic, Gillis said.

I expect a handful of top trends and threats to dominate the discourse. And like just about everything else over the past 12 months, many of these have been

SDxCentral sat down (virtually) with Kiersten Todt, a former cybersecurity advisor to President Obama and current managing director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

“What networking was 10 years ago, we believe APIs will be for the next 10 years,” Data Theorem COO Doug Dooley said.

“The interesting thing about those attacks, is they’re exactly what I was warning my board about three and a half years ago,” Armis CISO Curtis Simpson said.

"Openness allows you to have visibility and it allows you to put your defense and your security where you see the threats might be coming,” Dish Network's Marc Rouanne

Traceable’s technology would add a much-needed tool to a larger cloud security stack, and vendors including Cisco and VMware have said that application security ranks high on their list

The massive supply-chain attack “validated our strategy that your network plays an active role in how you can secure it,” Juniper Networks VP Samantha Madrid said.

Is next-gen XDR already a thing? CrowdStrike and Trend Micro square off on this, because if the security industry has an acronym addiction, it also has a “next-gen” problem.

Health care CISOs, in addition to dealing with a deadly pandemic, faced unprecedented cyberattacks in 2020 as hackers looked to cash in on the COVID-19 induced chaos.

Since his inauguration, President Biden’s tapped several cybersecurity veterans to fill posts that been eliminated under the Trump administration and earmarked about $10 billion dollars for various cybersecurity initiatives.

A growing number of cybersecurity vendors are realizing that open source can be a powerful tool for protecting customers and staying ahead of attackers.

McAfee seucrity researcher Doug McKee is paid to hack, using his skills to improve IT security. Here's his advice for aspiring cybersecurity engineers.

Converged IT and OT security platforms are one way that service providers and security vendors are addressing these challenges.

The industry group recently launched an initiative to develop telecommunications supply chain security standards and programs.

Just when you thought the waters were safe ...

Organizations are automating security incident investigations and making use of deception grids to identify breaches more quickly.

There are several advanced features that make up an enterprise-grade SD-WAN, including load balancing, optimization, and real-time visibility.

Virtualization of the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks through the use of converged platforms can improve security.