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.
Whether it was "turning AI up to 11" or the impact of a changing political landscape, the annual summer ritual of infosec events in Las Vegas once again showcased the evolution of cybersecurity. In this report, our analysts examine whether this year's confabs marked a summer of promise or one of concern for the industry.
The annual "security summer camp" that is made up of the Black Hat and DefCon conferences is just past, and the 451 Research information security analyst team join host Eric Hanselman to examine what they saw and discuss the implications.
We have identified six centers of gravity in the cybersecurity platform market. Palo Alto had five of them covered, but the sixth — identity — was a significant gap that the biggest pure-play cybersecurity vendor is now looking to close by picking up CyberArk in one of the largest deals ever in the security space.
Effective security management has never been simple, and the expanded threat landscape enhanced by AI has only widened the gap between defenders and attackers. Scott Crawford and Greg Zwakman return to discuss the managed security services market with host Eric Hanselman.
Few vendors have sufficient heft to leverage toward the security opportunity, but AWS' guiding philosophy is to secure the AWS estate and its customers. This makes the cloud giant an engaging player in cybersecurity, and its distinctives were on full display at AWS re:Inforce.
The Model Context Protocol specification has helped accelerate access to a wide range of data sources for AI applications. But there are questions around the security and trust implications of a protocol still in its infancy.
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