Sam Curry, CSO at Cybereason, breaks down everything you need to know about cybersecurity in order to keep your tech business safe.
As in most tech fields, buzzwords abound in the security sector, and boiling issues down to a simple narrative makes a lot of sense, especially as the rate of innovation and the imprecision of marketing or sales language tends to makes things more obscure and the value harder to perceive.
Words like ‘machine learning’, ‘artificial intelligence’, and even ‘math’ or ‘compliance’ can become meaningless quickly in the soup of vendor hyperbole.
At the moment, the worst culprit is ‘Next Gen’ or ‘NG’ for short as it has been applied to Firewall (NGFW), SIEM (NG SIEM) and most notoriously to Antivirus markets (NGAV). In the quest to be special, everyone is being rendered equally un-special by abusing these terms, and it’s worth a deeper look to separate the wheat from the chaff and to help practitioners and the world at large find what is valuable to them....