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.
The RSAC Conference is coming up, and the impact of agents will be on full display. Scott Crawford, Brenon Daly and Dan Kennedy join host Eric Hanselman to discuss their expectations and look at what has been happening in the marketplace, including investment and M&A activity.
Today's complex applications increasingly depend on distributed functionality that high-availability wide-area networks are well-positioned to serve when complemented by value-add digital capabilities. These "exosystems" are poised to become more vital as AI increases real-time application demands.
This year's AWS re:Invent conference was fueled by greater agentic AI capabilities. There was also a more enthusiastic embrace of multicloud environments, with the introduction of AWS Interconnect.
At its annual user conference, Microsoft showcased its rollout of agentic AI implementations, furthering its strategic bet on AI. Security capabilities — both for defending agentic deployments and leveraging agentic AI for cyber defense — were among the priorities highlighted at Ignite.
The company made announcements at its annual user conference that capitalize on the evergreen appeal of its platform for builders. Security initiatives introduced support this strategy — including one that indicated that multicloud is no longer "verbum non gratum" among cloud service providers.
Lumen is capitalizing on businesses' increasing reliance on third-party dependencies, particularly distributed AI models. This trend has accelerated demand for integrated high-performance connectivity and value-added services. Lumen aims to address this through an integrated combination that offers customers valuable functionality to extend capabilities beyond their own boundaries.
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