2025 Trends in Information Security
Justin Lam is a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence, leading data security research within the Information Security channel since October 2021. At S&P Global Market Intelligence, Justin leverages his years of industry experience and his unique understanding of both how customers buy and why sellers sell to help investors, practitioners and entrepreneurs understand and contextualize industry trends. Prior to this role, Justin successfully served and advised numerous startups in information and data security in strategy, sales and partner-development roles. He has built worldwide partnership and sales programs from scratch and has been fortunate enough to earn several “Presidents Club” and “Quota Club” awards. Within these startups, Justin has held both technical and enterprise customer-facing roles, with assignments in engineering, product management, customer success, consulting, prospecting and closing. Justin has been part of five exits, including two IPOs. He has also seen the process evolution of data security adoption. Justin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
At its Protect worldwide event, Proofpoint presented to customers and partners its growth in product offerings and highlighted a greater aggregate value proposition. We examine the merits of its vision for human-centric security, manifested in a suite of information protection, app and identity posture management, security awareness, and email/web threat defense.
At HashiConf 2024, the company announced new capabilities for its Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management product suites. We examine SLM and its growing alignment to address the broader operational and maturity challenges that larger enterprises face.
Unstructured content often is the bulk of enterprise data, and is becoming more valuable and riskier as business AI use cases evolve. Votiro seeks to embed itself as a platform in organizations to ensure the ongoing detection, safety and governance of sensitive content.
The buyer continues to shift from traditional email security, melding data, threat, email, identity and human risk management into what it calls its human-centric product security suite. The purchase of Normalyze brings Proofpoint the ability to discover and classify structured and unstructured data to complement its data-loss prevention offerings.
The company is pressing on toward AI/ML with innovations such as Agentforce to support GenAI agents operating in Salesforce applications. Underlying this, Salesforce Shield and the Einstein Trust Layer incorporate many trust, security and privacy disciplines to help accelerate GenAI adoption.
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