Scott Crawford is research director of 451 Research's Information Security channel, 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 his leadership role, Scott covers forces and events shaping cybersecurity. He maintains a focus on areas including security operations, cyber risk management, the intersections 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 Master of Science in information systems 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 worlds of IT security and operations are being pulled together, and AI is a catalyst. Meanwhile, the focus on observability in the DevOps movement is playing an important role in improving security effectiveness. Scott Crawford, Mark Ehr and Mike Fratto return to the podcast to discuss how this is happening with host Eric Hanselman.
Agentic AI will be a dominant theme in security. The question of whether agentic technology will deliver the expected returns hinges both on its implications for evolving security threats and on whether security teams can harness agentic capabilities to become more effective. Meanwhile, a growing web of interdependencies among third-party digital resources makes these shared assets attractive targets for attackers. Security will be a proving ground for how innovation will tackle all these factors in 2026.
There are many ways to frame conversations around cybersecurity, but it's critical to reconsider the interaction between the human and technical elements of cybersecurity. Research Director Scott Crawford and Javvad Malik, CISO advisor at KnowBe4, join host Eric Hanselman to examine this important interplay.
At Cribl's annual user conference, the data pipeline pioneer called out advancements in its product portfolio and a robust user community that it believes position it strongly for the agentic transformations in telemetry and operational data management soon to come.
Generative AI was a disruptive step function reshaping technology markets; agentic AI is its next iteration. What topics are security innovators focusing on in seeking to make it safer for organizations and for society? We look at these as we anticipate its impact on the cybersecurity market.
Splunk's annual user conference highlighted the triple threat of a combined Cisco-Splunk — expansive visibility from a host of Cisco telemetry; a broad data fabric that reaches to third parties, new federated data sources and the technology edge; and an innovative, AI-powered analyst experience.
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