Five Security, Networking And Management Predictions For 2024
Gigaom, Friday, December 8,2023
So, how are the more engineering levels of tech evolving - security, networking, and management? We spoke to some of our experts in these areas - lead analysts Andrew Green and Paul Stringfellow, operations lead Ron Williams, head of research Ben Stanford, and CTO Howard Holton. Let's see what they had to say.
1. Security categories are evolving, but this is causing more confusion than clarity
Andrew: Security vendors no longer know what products are what and how to position themselves - and it will get worse before it gets better. We're seeing this across security market categories. There's a kind of mishmash - like Network access controls (NAC) and extended detection and response (XDR), or security incident and event management (SIEM) versus security operations and automation response (SOAR). Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) is a genuinely confusing term right now, because too many vendors are using the term to mean different things.