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.

"Threat actors ... are luring users into clicking on phishing links in other, less expected places” than email, Ray Canzanese warned.

This report is also a good asset for organizations as it draws a picture of the global crime landscape.

China plans to start the post-quantum cryptography standardization process this year and expects to begin the commercial migration in 2025.

CSO Bill O’Hern argues embedded network security offers more capabilities on top of secure access service edge.

Gartner identified zero-trust network access as the fastest-growing segment in network security with a 36% growth in 2022, and 31% in 2023.

Research director Mauricio Sanchez saw the firewall market is on track to have a $12 billion yearly revenue this year.

“The horizon when we enter the era of what we call cryptographically-relevant quantum machines is getting closer all the time," IBM's Michael Osborne said.

John Carse calls for more communications in the telecom community over 5G, Open RAN, and cloud security.

"The earlier you can spot something ... the earlier that you can disable or break the chain of events that's going to occur,” AWS CISO CJ Moses said

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me personally … to really shift the paradigm of a networking industry," Nile CEO Pankaj Patel said.

“The overall cloud WAAP market is mature, though some segments are quite dynamic, such as bot management and API threat protection,” Gartner noted.

“We believe the next frontier of cybersecurity is data security,” Rubrik President Dan Rogers said.

There's very little technology in the middle to bridge the gap between heritage and cloud environments, Cisco Secure's Wendy Nather noted.

North America is the highest revenue contributor to the global cybersecurity insurance market, Straits Research found.

“The marketing and the business side of LockBit is arguably the most advanced of the ransomware gangs that are public,” Splunk's Ryan Kovar said.

"Working with silicon vendors like Broadcom to accelerate our SDN, to accelerate the security capabilities, that's extremely interesting,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.

"We need to be fair to our audience, to our target customers — not everything is an XDR,” Trellix’s Chief Product Officer Aparna Rayasam said.

“Governments worry about the capabilities of state-backed hackers and the defense industry fears China’s growing technological prowess," GlobalData's Robert Penman said.

"At some point in the future, quantum computers will likely be able to implement specific algorithms that can attack some of the current day cryptography," Deloitte's Colin Soutar said.

The term zero trust is “nebulous,” but “it is the strongest defense against ransomware,” Akamai’s CTO Robert Blumofe said.

"Our goal is to deliver cloud-based management platforms that actually have the same look and feel," Cisco chair and CEO Chuck Robbins said

“When you look at the shared donor that Symantec has imparted on us, we were happy to see Carbon Black and VMware be acquired,” CrowdStrike CFO Burt Podbere said.

Juniper Networks Group VP Samantha Madrid claims the vendor offers "the industry's first and only full-stack SASE solution."