Surging cyber-attacks, cloud penetration, increased network connectivity, and the growing complexity of disruptive cyber-attacks, are all drivers supporting a growing cybersecurity need.

Industry Trends

• Automation (inevitable) will be more widely adopted as skills shortage is exacerbated; emphasis on the efficacy of big data analytics
• The cybersecurity industry is far from maturity, many new companies with new approaches and technologies are constantly emerging, leading to highly fragmented sectors
• Consolidation will accelerate across highly fragmented & competitive sectors including endpoint & authentication
• Enterprises are transforming their security strategy, moving away from prevention-only approaches to focus more on detection and response (coupled to the leveraged use of AI)

Why now?

A combination of conditions have created the perfect cyber storm and opportunity for investing:

• Increasing geopolitical tensions & complete lack of governance & law enforcement models
• The speed of innovation driving vulnerabilities everywhere (mobile, social, cloud, satellite, IoT, industrial, physical, & consumer)
• Expansive vulnerabilities enable exponential growth in attacker groups & types
• Levels of danger expand from hacktivism to crime to espionage to terrorism to warfare
• Threats are growing in risk as new threats emerge to target information everywhere