“Zero trust is at this peak of inflated expectations, so we should see some rationalization of the hype this year,” analyst John Watts said.

The vendor's system is capable of optimizing feature selection, which Alan Baratz says is the fundamental building block of machine learning.

Analyst David Bicknell expects zero-trust officer roles to emerge to “coax, cajole, and bully companies on their zero-trust journey.”

John Graham-Cumming claims the key to a single-vendor secure access service edge is to provide unified management across all SASE capabilities.

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

Marc van Zadelhoff also expects M&A match to occur in the security industry as buyers finally move on to startups that run out of cash.

Dell also aims to be the “Switzerland” of organizing the zero-trust ecosystem, according to Global CTO John Roese.

Verizon claims it’s one of the first carriers to pilot quantum key distribution in the U.S.

"2023 is the year that for the first time, most enterprises are going to be able to start to deploy quantum-shaped protocols,” John Roese said.

IBM wants to deliver quantum error suppression and mitigation as a product feature in 2024, and integrate error correction beginning in 2026.

The FIDO Alliance and its partners, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, introduced the term "passkey" to replace passwords.

Zero-trust security continued to gain momentum in 2022 with support from governments and the private sector.

The company plans to take advantage of the CHIPS act and other government funding incentives.

The firm expects more than 60% of organizations will have multiple firewall deployments by 2026.

"Encryption is a great example of such a dynamic: quantum technology will be used to both strengthen encryption as well as defeat it," Mike Rogers said.

Canalys reported the overall market swelled 15.9% during the third quarter to $17.8 billion.

"In 2023 ... we will see a macro-trend emerge with the adoption of QKD in data centers, IoT, autonomous systems, and 6G,” Chief Strategy Officer Liz Centoni noted.

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.

The firm's research team created a full infection flow using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex.

"The governments have already woken up to it. ... At this time it is almost about being compliant with government mandates," Mamta Gupta said.

“I think the global landscape today is actually creating a perfect storm for attackers to go under the radar,” SVP Wendi Whitmore said.

Zero trust is built on three established security principles: least privilege, separation of duties, and defense in depth, Forrester said.

"I sell SASE and SD-WAN, but very few SD-WAN players are SASE-capable," Nikesh Arora said.

“Zero trust has quickly moved from a security concept to an operational imperative for organizations,” the vendor noted.