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.
UK telecommunications giant BT has announced an investment in SAFE Security, a provider of cyber risk analysis and quantification for organizations seeking to understand their exposure. The investment emphasizes both an 'outside in' view the adversary has of targets and an 'inside out' perspective on threat detection and response.
In a single $335m transaction, Rapid7 effectively doubles its M&A investment with its acquisition of threat intelligence provider IntSights. The deal capitalizes on an incident-driven trend galvanizing deals and transforming markets across the security landscape: the demand for actionable visibility into the ‘outside in' view adversaries have of their targets.
The tech giant has reached for RiskIQ, looking to enhance its visibility into cyberthreats. The deal, which may well be Microsoft's largest information security purchase, comes at a time of record activity for both infosec attacks as well as infosec M&A.
The US Army recently published a new directive for teleworkers to remove or turn off smart home devices, but has now removed the directive from its website. The Army's struggle with IoT devices is instructive for security teams trying to come to terms with a post-pandemic converged world, where the boundaries between IT, OT and HT fade away.
Extended detection and response (XDR) is a relatively new term for an approach to security operations aimed at empowering teams with the technology to detect threats across multiple vectors. XDR is gaining momentum with end users and vendors/providers and holds potential to be a disruptor for both groups.
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