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Scott Crawford is research director of the Information Security channel at S&P Global Market Intelligence, 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.
As the attack surface grows, security teams risk moving backward rather than forward in making threat detection and response more effective. Query's federated search offers one approach to achieving actionable results from a variety of existing security technologies, without the overhead and risks of more extensive architectural integration that can detract from single-vendor platforms.
Having evolved over the past 10 years from its endpoint management base into one of the fastest-growing publicly held cybersecurity companies in the world, SentinelOne recently made a series of moves that further accentuate its aggressive strategy. Its agreement to acquire PingSafe further underscores its expanding reach into cloud security.
Risk-based cybersecurity management is a focus for Qualys and its vulnerability management, detection and response strategy. It broke early ground in delivering security technology as SaaS; its recent conference in Florida highlighted the latest developments of its unified platform.
With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, coordinated attacks are beginning to have a direct impact on the battlefield, marking a new phase in cyberwarfare. Additionally, cyber conflict can have a significant impact well beyond any immediate sphere of aggression, as recent incidents at utilities attest.
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