Scott Crawford is research director of the Information Security channel at 451 Research from S&P Global Energy Horizons, where he leads the industry analyst team covering innovation, disruption and strategic players in cybersecurity and cyber risk. 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. Scott joined S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he has led the Information Security channel since 2015. 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.
Accenture has purchased a majority stake in Dragos plus 100% of runZero and NetRise for a combined $4.2 billion, creating one of the highest-valued OT cybersecurity businesses in history. Its goal is to deliver an end-to-end OT security platform for the critical infrastructure underpinning power grids, pipelines, manufacturing facilities and data centers.
As highlighted at the recent Databricks Data & AI Summit 2026, the company has been making aggressive moves to add security information and event management capabilities to its Lakewatch security lakehouse. Its acquisitions in March of Antimatter and SiftD — and now its purchase of Panther Labs — signal a much more deliberate effort to win SIEM market share.
The company used Cisco Live 2026 to announce Cisco Cloud Control and an expanded AgenticOps capability set, advancing its autonomous networking vision across campus, branch, data center and multicloud environments.
Intelligence plays a leading role in continuous threat and exposure management, but making that actionable in operations has long been a daunting task. Filigran is addressing this challenge by building on the wide adoption of its open-source threat intelligence management system to fill a distinct gap in the proactive defense category.
The recent announcement of the capabilities of the Mythos AI model has raised some concerns about the cybersecurity implications of ever-more-powerful AI tools. Scott Crawford and Daniel Kennedy return to the podcast to debate the impact with host Eric Hanselman.
In a year characterized by spasmodic reactions to AI, Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has precipitated yet another, this time in terms of AI impact on security processes for vulnerability discovery. We consider implications for the cybersecurity landscape and how it may shape that landscape.
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