Scott Crawford is Research Director for the Information Security Channel at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he leads coverage of emerging trends, innovation and disruption in the information security market. Scott is also a member of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
Well known as an industry analyst covering information security prior to joining 451 Research, Scott has experience as both a vendor and an information security practitioner. At IBM, Scott served as a senior strategist with IBM Security. He is the former CISO of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) International Data Centre in Vienna, Austria, where he pioneered the implementation of security policy and architecture for a non-governmental organization (NGO) serving more than 150 nations.
His experience includes systems and security management for leading organizations in both the private and public sectors, from Emerson to a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, focused on the collection, management and analysis of geophysical and meteorological data.
Despite significant investment in security technologies, many enterprises still struggle with persistent challenges such as alert overload and a lack of automation for time-consuming tasks. ReliaQuest's SecOps platform enables customers to maximize the value of their existing security investments and improve the overall efficiency and quality of their programs.
While the impact of generative AI was pervasive at RSA 2023, it was far from the only trend in evidence. Our analysts relate their impressions of data security and privacy, application security, identity, and cloud and SaaS security at RSA that capitalized on pervasive increases in security spending.
With its most recent product releases, Exabeam emphasizes its latest advances in scale and performance. The move may be well-timed, as innovations that demand such performance are emerging quickly and could substantially raise the bar in security operations technology.
In this final report, we look at some of the factors shaping the future of cyber insurance in both the public and private sectors, as well as the impact of rapid advancements in technology such as large multimodal AI models that may fundamentally transform the nature of technology risk.
Cyber insurtech has arisen to give insurers visibility, informed by expertise and technology, into what makes for acceptable cyber risk. In this report, we examine not only the areas of cyber risk posture providers are looking at, but also the new ways players are seeking to influence how organizations think about, model and measure cyber risk.
Enterprises are using a wide variety of security services and providers. While newer trends such as managed detection and response are making inroads, traditional managed security services remain strongest, while the need to secure cloud environments stands out as a major buying driver.
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