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August 5-10, 2023
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Black Hat - Omdia Analyst Summit

Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

This event will be in-person only and admission is by approval only—and is not guaranteed.

Overview

You're Invited To Apply to Attend The Omdia Analyst Summit at Black Hat USA 2023

The third annual Omdia Analyst Summit returns to Black Hat USA featuring the industry’s leading cybersecurity analysts. Delegates will hear about the latest cybersecurity trends, market updates, observations, projections and insights through keynote, panel and fireside chats at this day-long in-person Summit.

The theme for 2023 is Cybersecurity: Maximum Attention, Minimum Budget. Join our experts and you’ll get new insights into:

  • Omdia's Security Decision-Maker Report 2023 - What Are Security Functions Focusing on Today and in the Near Future?
  • The business challenges faced by security budgets
  • Where organizations focus their security spending
  • Clarity around and the emergence of proactive security platforms
  • And much more!

Location:
Mandalay Bay, Oceanside D, Level 2
Las Vegas, NV

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Attendee Guidelines:

  • Have a cybersecurity focus or equivalent job title, be involved with cybersecurity technology or approaches to addressing cybersecurity issues, or otherwise have responsibility to ensure that cybersecurity is addressed in their organization (including board level).

Omdia Analysts

Maxine Holt

Maxine Holt

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Senior Director, Research

Maxine Holt leads Omdia cybersecurity research, developing a comprehensive research program to support vendor, service provider, and enterprise clients in the areas of infrastructure security, security operations, data security, and identity, authentication, and access.

Maxine rejoined Omdia (as Ovum) in 2018, following two years at the Information Security Forum (ISF) developing research in areas including Protecting the Crown Jewels, Securing Collaboration Platforms, and Building Tomorrow’s Security Workforce. Prior to the ISF, Maxine spent 15 years in research at Ovum, including security, having started her career as a software developer in the financial services industry and working in consulting for the financial services and internet sectors. Maxine is a regular speaker at events and contributes articles to high-profile publications in cybersecurity.

Eric Parizo

Eric Parizo

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Managing Principal Analyst

Eric Parizo supports Omdia's Cybersecurity Operations (SecOps) Intelligence Service research practice, guiding vendor, service provider, and enterprise clients. He provides thought-leading analysis on technologies, trends, and innovations in enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), and specifically the thread detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) lifecycle.

In addition to SecOps, he assists in supporting Omdia’s Infrastructure Security Intelligence Service, contributes to Omdia Cyber’s coverage of mergers, acquisitions, and other overarching market trends in North America, and oversees Omdia Cyber’s social media efforts, including the Omdia research page on Dark Reading.

Eric has been covering, researching, or speaking on topics related to enterprise information technology for approximately 20 years. Prior to joining Omdia (formerly Ovum) in 2019, Eric spent four years at GlobalData (formerly Current Analysis), where his research focused on tracking and analyzing enterprise network security product segments, as well as top-tier enterprise security vendor technology and strategy.

Eric previously spent 15 years as a technology journalist and a multimedia editor at leading B2B publisher TechTarget, most recently serving as executive editor for the Security Media Group. He is a nine-time ASBPE award winner, the B2B publishing industry's most prestigious award for excellence.

Fernando Montenegro

Fernando Montenegro

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Senior Principal Analyst

Fernando Montenegro is a Senior Principal Analyst on Omdia’s cybersecurity research team, based in Toronto, Canada. He focuses on the Infrastructure Security Intelligence Service, which provides vendors, service providers, and enterprise clients with insights and data on network security, content security, and more.

Fernando’s experience in enterprise security environments includes network security, security architecture, cloud security, endpoint security, content security, and antifraud. He has a deep interest in the economic aspects of cybersecurity and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Before joining Omdia in 2021, Fernando was an industry analyst with 451 Research. He previously held a variety of operations, consulting, and sales engineering roles over his 25+ years in cybersecurity, always focusing on enterprise security at organizations including vArmour, RSA, Crossbeam, Hewlett Packard, and Nutec/Terra. Fernando holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and different industry certifications.

Hollie Hennessy

Hollie Hennessy

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Senior Analyst

Hollie Hennessy provides insight into the fascinating and fast-moving domain of IoT cybersecurity.

Hollie has a range of experience in research. She began her career in the legal sector, writing and researching for expert witness reports on the labor market. She then moved into product testing, with a consumer protection focus. In this role, she was responsible for managing comparative tests of various technology products, as well as regular testing and investigative work into the security of these products.

She has published articles in Which?, one of the UK's largest subscription magazines, produced by the country's largest consumer organization; and Computing magazine.

Curt Franklin

Curt Franklin

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Principal Analyst

Curtis Franklin Jr. is Principal Analyst at Omdia, focusing on enterprise security management. Curtis has been writing about technologies and products in computing and networking since the early 1980s. He has been on staff and contributed to technology-industry publications including BYTE, ComputerWorld, CEO, Enterprise Efficiency, ChannelWeb, Network Computing, InfoWorld, PCWorld, Dark Reading, and ITWorld.com on subjects ranging from mobile enterprise computing to enterprise security and wireless networking.

Previously, he was senior editor of Dark Reading, editor of Light Reading's Security Now and executive editor, technology, at InformationWeek where he was also executive producer of InformationWeek's online radio and podcast episodes.

Curtis is the author of thousands of articles, the co-author of five books, and has been a frequent speaker at computer and networking industry conferences across North America and Europe. His most recent books, Cloud Computing: Technologies and Strategies of the Ubiquitous Data Center, and Securing the Cloud: Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center, with co-author Brian Chee, are published by Taylor and Francis.

When he's not writing, Curtis is a painter, photographer, cook, and multi-instrumentalist musician. He is active in running, amateur radio (KG4GWA), the MakerFX maker space in Orlando, FL, and is a certified Florida Master Naturalist.

Adam Etherington

Adam Etherington

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Principal Analyst - Digital Enterprise Services

Adam Etherington is part of Omdia’s Digital Enterprise Services practice, within the Global Service provider Enterprise and Wholesale Team. He covers telecommunications service providers, consulting, systems integrators, and managed services across cloud, cybersecurity, and emerging B2B managed services.

Adam joined Omdia in 2020, having spent more than two decades at some of the world’s largest telecoms and IT services vendors performing various roles across; strategic consulting, corporate strategy, business planning, market intelligence, product management, business development, IT solutions architecture, and managed services operations.

He is passionate about bringing clear insights to help enterprises and service providers understand and leverage business outcomes enabled by information technology.

Ketaki Borade

Ketaki Borade

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Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Security

Ketaki Borade supports Omdia’s Infrastructure Security research practice. She is responsible for qualitative and quantitative analysis of key vendors in the service. She provides insights into technology, market trends, and competitive landscape.

Ketaki brings her eight years of experience in consulting and syndicate research to this role. Ketaki has researched the semiconductor market for three years with MarketsandMarkets. Prior to joining Omdia, she worked with Canalys for five years as a cybersecurity analyst. She was leading the North American security practice for endpoint security, network security, email and web security, and vulnerability management with channels insights. Ketaki has a bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunications and a master’s degree in operations.

Don Tait

Don Tait

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Senior Analyst

Don Tait is Omdia’s Senior Analyst for the cybersecurity team, bringing more than 20 years of research, consulting, and insights experience to his role as a lead analyst in the area of identity, authentication, and access.

Don has provided analyses on smart cards, payment and banking cards, near-field communications (NFC), and contactless credentials. He has presented the findings from his reports at many events and has written feature articles on his areas of expertise for leading journals and publications. Prior to joining Omdia, Don was a telecoms research analyst at Frost & Sullivan, responsible for the firm's broadband services subscription. He was also a marketing consultant at MSI Reports Limited, where he wrote industrial, healthcare, and telecommunications reports. Don has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in business studies from Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland. He is based in the UK.

Andrew Braunberg

Andrew Braunberg

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Principal Analyst

Andrew Braunberg supports Omdia's Cybersecurity Operations (SecOps) Intelligence Service research practice, guiding vendor, service provider, and enterprise clients. He provides thought-leading analysis on technologies, trends, and innovations in enterprise security operations centers (SOCs), and specifically on the proactive technologies used to avoid breach, such as vulnerability management and attack surface management.

Andrew has been covering, researching, or speaking on topics related to enterprise information technology for approximately 20 years. Prior to joining Omdia (formerly Ovum) in 2022, Andrew spent five years at NSS Labs where he led the analyst group and worked closely with the company’s security product testing team.

Prior to NSS, Andrew spent more than a decade at GlobalData (formerly Current Analysis), where he managed the Enterprise team and was the firm’s principal security analyst. Over his career, Andrew’s coverage has ranged from endpoint malware suites, to network security appliances, and solutions for protecting cloud-based assets.

Adam Strange

Adam Strange

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Principal Analyst, Data Security

Adam Strange is responsible for delivering a comprehensive analysis and insight program focused on data security within the Omdia cybersecurity research function, supporting vendor, service provider and enterprise clients. Adam brings comprehensive experience of the cybersecurity industry, having worked for a series of UK-based channel and global vendor organisations.

Adam has spent his career working in enterprise IT and cybersecurity. He joined Omdia in Feb 2023, from data classification vendor Boldon James where he ran the marketing communications function. Prior to that, Adam worked within the cybersecurity business at BAE Systems, where he specialised in managed security, fraud prevention and anti-money laundering services in UK government and the Financial Services industry. Previously, Adam spent 8 years at Oracle UK promoting secure database solutions both directly and with partners. Before Oracle, he lead the enterprise solutions marketing team at Computacenter. Adam has an MSc in corporate management from Cranfield University.

Rik Turner

Rik Turner

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Senior Principal Analyst

Rik Turner is a senior principal analyst in Omdia's IT security and technology team, specializing in cybersecurity technology trends, IT security, compliance, and call recording. Rik provides analysis and insights on market evolution and helps end users determine what type of technology and which vendor they should pursue.

Rik has also worked in Omdia's financial services technology team, with a specialization in capital markets technology. Prior to joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked as an IT journalist, specializing in networking and security. He was also a foreign correspondent in Brazil, where he worked, among others, for the Financial Times and The Economist.

Jon Ong

Jon Ong

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Senior Analyst

Jon supports Omdia's Managed Security Services pillar, with a focus on Managed Detection & Response (MDR). He covers the analysis of security providers and their offerings, along with trend analysis to bring you what's hot and what's passé, with a spotlight on the APAC region.

Jon was previously a cybersecurity analyst at a forex trading company, and consulted at a boutique firm specializing in cybersecurity frameworks. He brings a business-led approach to security through experiences at a programmatic marketing MNC and a fintech start-up group. Jon has a bachelor's in Economics, and studied at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Tsinghua University.

Katelyn Galer

Katelyn Galer

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Senior Analyst

As part of Omdia’s Industrial IoT, Software, and Communications team, Katelyn focuses on industrial communications and industrial edge networking components. She covers trends in industrial networking components (e.g., IIoT gateways, routers, switches) and examines industrial communications standards and their implementation in manufacturing.

Prior to joining Omdia in 2023, Katelyn worked as an engineer for over 15 years, most recently in electro-mechanical instrumentation manufacturing. Katelyn has a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Agenda

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

9:15 - 9:20 AM Welcome and Introductions
  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director – Research
9:20 - 9:50 AM Keynote:
Cybersecurity: Maximum Attention, Minimum Budget

Security has a very high profile in organizations, yet there is little sign of increased budgets to deal with this scrutiny – and indeed, budgets are often being reduced.

This keynote presentation will highlight the business issues driving the attention towards security, both globally and regionally. It will also provide insights for both enterprises and vendors/service providers make the case for better budgets to support the organizational scrutiny in security and provide return on security investment.

  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director – Research
  • Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst (via video)
9:50 - 10:10 AM
Proactive Security: Cyber-Resiliency’s Innovation Wave

Omdia defines proactive security as an overarching solution category that enables organizations to proactively seek out security issues – vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and even poor policy and strategy – before an exploit ever takes place.

This presentation will explain the genesis of proactive security and its place in context with traditional preventative and reactive solution categories; detail the types of solutions and capabilities that illustrate proactive security; underscore why proactive security solutions represent a critical element of an enterprise cybersecurity architecture from this point forward; and outline how solution consolidation is setting the stage for the era of Proactive Security Platforms.

  • Eric Parizo, Managing Principal Analyst
  • Andrew Braunberg, Principal Analyst
10:10 - 10:30 AM
Getting SASE with Security Delivery

As SASE shapes up to be a significant area of interest as organizations refresh their security architecture, some confusion still exists. This short session will cover how Omdia views SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, and where it is going. Content will include key trends in the market, lists of representative vendors, and recommendations for different stakeholders.

  • Fernando Montenegro, Senior Principal Analyst
10:30 - 10:50 AM Networking Break with Analysts
10:50 - 11:10 AM
Investigating the Acronym Soup of Cloud Security

This session will focus on how Omdia views the broader cloud security market – CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CPM, CDR, … - and where it is going. We will investigate what role these acronyms play in the cloud security market, key trends of the market, representative vendors, and recommendations for different stakeholders.

Omdia sees the evolution of the Cloud Security market by the vendors taking a platform approach and overtime convergences in Application Security and Cloud Security.

  • Ketaki Borade, Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Security
  • Rik Turner, Principal Analyst (via video)
11:10 - 11:25 AM Fireside Chat
  • Ketaki Borade, Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Security
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11:25 - 11:45 AM
Build or Buy? A CISO IT Security Services Guide

Managing security, identity and privacy is the #1 priority among executives globally, and reaching this goal is a burgeoning challenge. Budgets aren't keeping pace with risks and tech proliferation.

Cyber threats, economic instability, evolving regulation, emergent technology and hyper-competitive markets will continue to place pressure on internal IT and security teams. CISOs must respond to minimize risk whilst enabling tech fueled innovation.

This session evaluates the potential and pitfalls of third-party security services to enable a vision of secure IT, will reveal what security consulting and professional services leading organizations are investing now and why, and what to expect from leading providers.

  • Adam Etherington, Principal Analyst - Digital Enterprise Services
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Data Security 2.0: The Rise of Data Security Posture Management

Data security, as a distinct component of cybersecurity posture, is maturing fast. Omdia sees global data privacy legislation (and with it very real fines for data breaches or data loss), new roles and resources now in place to manage the way data is used and protected, increased governance around data security, new tools, techniques and approaches to defend data stores, increased budgets and focus all partway shaping the evolution.

Data security has emerged from the peripheries of much wider cybersecurity planning to take up a more centralized and fundamental role. The conversation has seen the need for dedicated data security develop, and is now moving towards the next step of comprehensive data security posture management (DSPM), in a world that is moving rapidly into the cloud. But what is DSPM and why is it, as Omdia believes, the future of data security? The presentation will define DSPM and set it out in the context of enterprise cybersecurity as a whole. We'll examine the constituent parts and reveal why DSPM is such an important and necessary development for data security into 2024 and beyond.

  • Adam Strange, Principal Analyst, Data Security
  • Rik Turner, Senior Principal Analyst (via video)
12:05 - 12:25 PM
Decentralized Identity: Hype or Reality?

Decentralized identity arises from the emergence of blockchain technology, which has had a huge impact on the digital identity sector. The advantages of decentralized identity gives over traditional identity and access management solutions include control, security, privacy and ease of use.

In this session we will explore what is included in decentralized identity together with the potential use cases for the technology. We will also explore what are the key drivers and challenges to the technology becoming mainstream. The main vendors who are playing in the decentralized identity space will also be highlighted. The presentation will also look at core characteristics of decentralized identity including verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, decentralized identity wallet and blockchain.

  • Don Tait, Senior Analyst
12:25 - 1:40 PM Lunch
1:40 - 1:55 PM
How Does Generative AI Actually Help Cybersecurity?

The session will begin with defining terms: What, exactly, is "generative AI" and how is it different than the AI customers have grown tired of hearing about over the last five years?

Next, we'll talk about why the differences make generative AI a technology security professionals need to understand.

The third part of the session will focus on the tasks generative AI promises to be very good at, the tasks that are not in its electronic wheelhouse, and how executives can start preparing their organizations to take advantage of generative AI's strengths. Part of this discussion will be a look at some of the potential pitfalls of generative AI, and why "verify, then trust" should be the slogan of everyone adding generative AI to their cybersecurity portfolio.

  • Curt Franklin, Senior Analyst
  • Ketaki Borade, Senior Analyst - Infrastructure Security
1:55 - 2:20 PM
IT vs. Industry: Existing Investments or Specialized Solutions?

Cybersecurity is a must for all industries, but balancing industry priorities and cybersecurity is another topic to tackle.

This session will draw a spotlight on the cybersecurity drivers that are specific to verticals. Omdia will provide insights on the business goals and industry dynamics that need to balanced alongside cybersecurity. One consideration for is whether existing tooling and solutions will suffice. Omdia will provide guidance on where cybersecurity for IT crosses over into the IoT and OT realm, and where it needs specialist solutions.

  • Hollie Hennessy, Senior Analyst
  • Katelyn Galer, Senior Analyst
2:20 - 2:50 PM
Stories from the Field: Successes in Industry-Specific Cybersecurity

Security success in specific vertical market segments like manufacturing, retail, or finance can be a double-edged sword: each vertical has its own special security requirements and challenges, but effective solutions also must fit into a broader security architecture and support overall cybersecurity program objectives.

In this panel, vendors and solution providers will discuss their industry-specific approaches and share success stories from customers on how they’ve helped them meet security challenges unique to their verticals while also supporting broader business objectives.

  • Chaired by Hollie Hennessy, Senior Analyst
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2:55 - 3:15 PM Networking Break with Analysts
3:15 - 3:35 PM
Why Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Is So Hot Right Now

As cyberattacks and the corresponding detection & response tools grow increasingly sophisticated, decision-makers are looking at Managed Detection and Response services to perform threat detection and incident response functions or augment their teams. Navigating a market flooded with non-uniform technologies poses a challenges for decision-makers to identify an appropriate service and providers to engage in impactful long-term partnerships.

Given the growing laundry list of priorities for security analysts, security leaders need a service which reduces time-to-value and provides assurance.

We will examine the redefined MDR, emerging trends in the marketplace, and how providers and decision-makers can align on the value proposition of such a service.

  • Adam Etherington, Principal Analyst - Digital Enterprise Services
  • Jon Ong, Senior Analyst
3:35 - 4:25 PM Analyst Panel and Audience Q&A:
How Organizations Are Addressing Economic Challenges While Driving Improved Security

In this session, Omdia analysts will share their insights on how enterprises are adopting new mindsets, approaches, as well as technologies and services to solve security challenges despite ongoing economic uncertainty. Key topics will include how:

  • The application of Proactive Security can address security and business needs
  • A "platform approach" can address growing IoT/OT security use cases
  • Carefully managing existing resources can enable cheaper cloud data protection
  • Creative use of security services can overcome staffing and technology challenges

The panel will also take audience questions (as time allows).

  • Chaired by Eric Parizo, Managing Principal Analyst
  • Adam Etherington, Principal Analyst - Digital Enterprise Services
  • Hollie Hennessy, Senior Analyst
  • Andrew Braunberg, Principal Analyst
  • Adam Strange, Principal Analyst, Data Security
4:25 - 4:30 PM Closing Remarks
  • Maxine Holt, Senior Director – Research
4:30 - 5:30 PM Networking Reception with Attendees & Analysts

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