Lawrence Pingree, CTO at BrazenCloud, former Managing VP of Emerging Tech at Gartner on top security trends, challenges on the horizon, and Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
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We've we've had the cloud kind of, you know, somewhat forced on us as technologists. I mean, there's a lot of efficiency gain from moving to the cloud. The you know, we're I think we're last out I heard was or about 50% adopted in the cloud. Now, that means that, you know, we had to retool security for this new environment.
So, you know, you had a lot of vendors scrambling to try to retool their own, you know, antivirus offering to go after cloud workloads or, you know, net new infrastructure in the cloud. So, you know, retooling for that. But, you know, a major trend, as well, because of a lack of headcount and security. And, and sort of, you know, this is, the maturity within security programs, has meant that we have a lot more mandates placed upon us with, you know, compliance frameworks, and, you know, standards and, you know, localized laws, geographical laws, etc.
And this is driving the demand for greater utilization of every headcount within security. And this means that, you know, that when people need to hire more, and people call it the skill shortage, I would actually say that, if you compare, let's say, the security market to let's say, the insurance industry, that's existed for, you know, several 100 years or 100 years more, they were actually in our inventory, if untestable stage, right, we're we're still just barely entering the landscape of the economy.
I'm often at Gartner, you know, as a sort of a think tank, putting my Think Tank hat hat on, thought that we really underestimate the the impact that a cloud failure a massive cloud failure is going to have. And I would say that, given that we're at that roughly 50% adoption marker, you know, this means that just I'm going to just say this out loud. If the cloud went down tomorrow, or, or, as of the ending of this webinar, you know, 50% of the economy would halt.
Okay, so to me, the cloud represents a lot of occupant optimization, and a lot of, you know, really good improvements, innovations, but at the same time, it introduces additional risk, right. And although this is not a gardener position, this is my personal opinion, you know, I believe the cloud can represent a national security risk as well. So that diversity away from just focusing on motto, culture, also is important in the way that we go about securing our environments, and making architectural decisions.
And I would say that, we've reached that point where, you know, if Amazon goes down, it's massive impact. If one single automation and believe me, the cloud is all basically stuck together with automation, right? If one automation goes awry, we can have a national security risk.
And so that's something that I think, you know, we need to plan for, we know that, for example, in AI and machine learning, those technologies are streamlined, beneficial, but now we're having to protect the ai ai model operations itself, the data that we're utilizing behind the scenes to build our machine learning.
And the same types of things hold true the way that we treat automation, we need to work, especially in larger platforms, we need to design our automation well. We need to design automation, with resiliency.
And so those are things that I think are on the horizon. I guess the magic of the magic quadrant is that the Gartner says all of the different elements of a business, their marketing execution, their revenue, their sales, execution, their their their marketing programs that you know, it's a full set assessment of a vendor, from top to bottom from a business standpoint.
And that's what makes it magical is you can have a very large company that has an army of salespeople that sell really well. And you can have a startup company with the best technology in the world. And they get no attraction because they don't have a very large company behind them helping them right.
And so everyone looks at the Magic Quadrant and constantly surrounded and feels that it's unfair, but at the end of the day, you know If I sat you in the seat, as an analyst, what I the role I played and the team I managed, you would feel the same exact way. You would view it. You would get critiqued all the time, but you're paid to be a critic, right? And so that's kind of, I think, a fascinating part of, you know, being a gardener.
18 авг 2022
