Where's Security Going In 2025?
Gigaom, Monday, December 16th, 2024
Few areas of technology are moving as fast as security, so what gives and how is it going to evolve in 2025? We asked our analysts Andrew Brust, Andrew Green, Chester Conforte, Chris Ray, Howard Holton, Ivan McPhee, Stan Wisseman, and Whit Walters for their thoughts.
First off - is the future of cybersecurity protection agentless?
Andrew G: We are seeing the growth of eBPF, which offers more stability compared to past agent-based systems like CrowdStrike. eBPF has built-in verification mechanisms, like memory limits and timeouts, which help to prevent issues like the blue screen of death.
I've also seen eBPF-based alternatives that handle runtime security in the kernel without agents, with built-in verification. Note that you can do both kernel and external analysis. Some vendors, like Wiz, gather telemetry in the kernel and send it to the cloud for processing and display.