The 2022 RSA Security Conference is just weeks away, and the security diaspora is boosted and ready to meet in person at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
While we’ve certainly accomplished a lot working remotely over the past 2 years, cybersecurity remains in a precarious position in 2022, so an industry huddle is in order. We are at a point where the scale and complexity of historical security defenses either aren’t working or are stretched to their limits. This means CISOs need to think about security transformation, and as they do, every process and layer of the security technology stack is in play.
Now, there will be plenty of hype at the conference around security “platforms” like extended detection and response (XDR), cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs), secure access service edge (SASE), and zero trust—all important topics but also strewn with industry hype and associated user confusion. My good friend Candy Alexander, president of ISSA International, and I will be discussing these trends during our RSA session on Tuesday morning (6/7). But when I’m not presenting with Candy, I’ll be learning everything I can about security operations center (SOC) modernization.