The annual RSA Conference on information security is coming up and it arrives during a very active security market. Analysts Garrett Bekker, Dan Kennedy and research director Scott Crawford return to the podcast to discuss what they expect to see in San Franscisco with host Eric Hanselman. The largest transaction ever in the information security world, Google's acquisition of cloud security unicorn Wiz, has been echoing across capital and technology markets. It's reinforced the importance of cloud security and its nature as a distinct technology segment. Enterprises have become fully hybrid in their infrastructure mix and they're struggling to mitigate cloud risks. Part of the struggle is leading to tool consolidation and platform approaches to security management. It's a situation that's led by the fact that the average enterprise already reports spending a third of their security budgets on a single security operations vendor.

Of course, AI will be front and center and this year agentic AI is being examined as a way to scale up security capabilities. AI capabilities have been part of security tools for many years and the challenge has always been building trust in automated actions. It will be some time before autonomous actions are turned on. There's a long history of keeping human review in place as trust is built. It's not that different from previous technology automation transitions, but with security, there's a greater imperative.

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Credits:

• Host/Author: Eric Hanselman
• Guests: Garrett Bekker, Scott Crawford, Daniel Kennedy
• Producer/Editor: Adam Kovalsky
• Published With Assistance From: Sophie Carr, Feranmi Adeoshun, Kyra Smith