Investors have bet big on zero trust, pouring nearly $3 billion in funding over the past four years into the space.

The cybersecurity unicorn closed on its then-record funding haul late last year, which pushed its valuation to $8.3 billion.

“Competition for skilled labor is very much a reality,” Tillman Infrastructure COO Christian Hillabrant said.

“When we're talking about cybersecurity, it's not just data and identity and credit cards ... but we're also talking about human life,” Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee said.

“We've always said we're going to deploy this 5G when the ecosystem is ready,” AT&T Communications SVP Marachel Knight said.

FortiNDR offers a Virtual Security Analyst to offload human analyst functions by analyzing code generated by malicious traffic.

“Paying cybercriminals to restore data is not a data protection strategy,” Veeam CTO Danny Allan said.

“We're not seeing the pressure from an inflation or reduced economic activity perspective,” CEO Nikesh Arora said.

Rubrik takes a "Microsoft first" approach but also has plans to offer workload protection for Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, CPO Anneka Gupta said.

“Our customers are asking for managed secure access service edge, cloud, and threat detection and response capabilities,” Palo Alto Networks' Prem Iyer said.

“Customer demand for global software-as-a-service (SaaS) security certifications is ever-increasing, as are the security risks we face,” Cisco's Prasant Vadlamudi said.

Red Hat wants to build security into continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines that customers are using to manage their applications.

“It's really important to build a resilient company,” CEO Rami Rahim said, adding that resilience comes with diversity in business.

“Our vision is computing should be confidential all the time,” Intel's Nikhil Deshpande said.

Next-generation zero-trust network access makes sure that trust is not implicit, SVP Kumar Ramachandran said. “It's zero trust with zero exceptions.”

"Probably within the next 10, 20 years, security will overtake the network space and become the biggest one in the enterprise network,” Fortinet CEO Ken Xie said.

“Web application and API attacks and zero-day vulnerabilities have been on an absolute tear over the last 9 months,” Akamai's Thomas Emmons noted.

“The OT definitely sees a bigger market going forward, probably bigger than the SD-WAN, which we see pretty strong growth,” CEO Ken Xie said.

FIDO argues that password-only authentication is one of the biggest security issues on the web.

“If we can avoid issues before they happen, it's an enormous game," Cisco's JP Vasseur said.

Fortinet announced three next-generation firewalls for campus, branch, and hybrid data center environments.

The Conti and Hive groups often offered discounts and were flexible on payment dates.

Seventy-percent of leaders saw women and new graduates hiring as the top recruitment hurdle and 61% of them found hiring minorities challenging, Fortinet reports.

CEO Rami Rahim explained that the vendor's cloud and enterprise verticals more than made up for slowing service provider sales during the quarter.