Mark is a principal research analyst on the 451 Research cybersecurity research team of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He focuses on cybersecurity with an emphasis on cloud security, security operations and AI/ML. Mark has more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience plus a decade in software development and many years in computer networking. In his time at S&P, Mark has delivered go-to-market projects and contributed to S&P’s 451 Research team in areas including SIEM, secure access service edge (SASE), network security, private key infrastructures (PKIs), AI, continuous security validation and threat modeling. Before joining S&P Global in 2022, Mark spent 12.5 years at IBM, including three years in BigFix endpoint management product marketing, four years as a QRadar SIEM product manager, and six years leading security sales enablement across IBM’s $1 billion threat management product family. He also spent four years as an industry analyst at Enterprise Management Associates Mark holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Metropolitan State University of Denver with an emphasis on electronics engineering technology and is an ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He also jokes that he holds an “MBA from the school of entrepreneurial hard knocks,” gained in his five years as an equity partner in a Boulder, Colorado-based software firm.
Under the auspices of the CNCF, Kubernetes has evolved to accommodate a range of use cases, from micro versions in cars to massive distributed compute clusters for AI training. As the standard matures and adoption grows, offshoots are demonstrating its ability to adapt to emerging business needs.
The cloud security specialist has acquired ASPM provider Dazz to further augment its application security portfolio following the launch of its Wiz Code offering earlier this year. The objective is to identify the root cause of critical security issues down to the code level, enabling what is referred to as "shift left" in security circles.
The Israel-based target is a security posture management and identity threat, detection and response specialist focused on SaaS platforms. This is CrowdStrike's second SaaS security-related purchase this year following the acquisition of Flow Security in March.
Only a few weeks before one of the largest annual cybersecurity gatherings, a global IT outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems was precipitated by problems with a CrowdStrike update. The incident was a dominant theme, but it wasn't the only cybersecurity event of the past year to leave a lasting mark in Las Vegas.
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