Scott Crawford is research director of the Information Security channel at S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research, where he leads the industry analyst team covering innovation, disruption and strategic players in cybersecurity and cyber risk. Scott joined S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he has led the Information Security channel since 2015. In addition to directing the Information Security channel’s research efforts, Scott covers forces and events shaping cybersecurity. He maintains a focus on areas including security operations, cyber risk management, the intersection of AI/machine learning and cybersecurity, and related interests. As a practitioner, Scott was the first information security officer for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s International Data Centre in Vienna, with a background including systems and security management at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. His private-sector experience ranges from startups to leading industry players such as IBM, where Scott was a senior strategist with IBM Security. Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado and a postgraduate Master of Science from the University of Salford (UK), with additional graduate study in telecommunications at the University of Colorado and in information systems at the University of Denver.
The annual RSA Conference on information security is coming up and it arrives during a very active security market. Analysts Garrett Bekker, Dan Kennedy and Research Director Scott Crawford return to the podcast to discuss what they expect to see in San Franscisco with host Eric Hanselman.
Few security vendors have been more avid advocates of security technology platform strategies than Palo Alto Networks. The strengths of this approach were on display at the company's recent event in New York City, which spurred discussions about where this strategy could lead.
Agentic AI seems on the verge of superseding generative AI. In security operations, the ability to reason, decide and act on overwhelming volumes of detail could be a boon to security teams. What should organizations know about where this evolution is today, and will they be ready for it tomorrow?
With so much of IT gravitating toward the cloud, it's imperative for any company seeking a leadership stake in cybersecurity to have a solid play in that direction. A cloud service provider in its own right, Google has finally printed the purchase of Wiz, which evidently rethought its IPO prospects in the current climate.
As the payment industry works to address security and fraud, major players are moving beyond being consumers of security technology and becoming acquirers. Jordan McKee and Scott Crawford return to discuss the dynamics on both sides of this equation with host Eric Hanselman.
The recent market shakeup precipitated by DeepSeek was abrupt and unexpected. Should security and risk professionals be equally alert for its impact? We examine recent findings from policy and security research to explore.
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