FEATURE: TRENDS IN CYBERSECURITY SOLUTIONS

Gerald Beuchelt, CISO Acronis

Security teams now require specialised skills in key areas like cloud security, especially across multicloud environments, Identity and Access Management, and Zero-Trust implementation. Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and securing CI, CD pipelines is increasingly critical, especially in agile development environments.

A key limitation is the lack of automation. Many security operations still rely on manual processes, making it difficult to counter fast-moving threats like credentialstuffing bots. Understaffed teams often struggle to

respond to incidents in real time.

To improve resilience, organisations should adopt solutions that prioritise automation, allowing human analysts to focus on higher-value tasks and respond more efficiently during threat surges.

Alexandre Depret-Bixio, Senior Vice President, Anomali

Anomali cloud-native architecture ingests and correlates petabytes of telemetry and threat intelligence in real time, empowering organisations to detect, understand, and act in real time. Anomali is moving beyond detection and response toward autonomous decision-making, AI-powered scoring, and anticipatory defence.

Many solutions still suffer from fragmented architectures, costly integrations, and limited visibility. Traditional SIEMs and bolt-on tools often throttle performance, restrict data access, or require trade-offs between speed and scale. They were not designed for today’ s AI-driven threat landscape.

Reliance on outdated detection models and limited historical data leaves blind spots. Anomali addresses these limitations by redefining the architecture, unifying telemetry, and threat intelligence in a high-speed, cloud-native data lake.

Christopher Hills, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust

Many vendors have innovated and developed their solutions to include more use cases to reduce risk, streamline business efficiency, and achieve the ROI their customers are looking for.

Other advancements and innovations taking place are integrations. Vendors are finding value by integrating their products with other vendors, even if there is some overlap.

The value multiplier by doing so, is much easier consumed by the customer and organisations, when it comes to operational efficiency and cost.

Solutions are now able to run processes, fetch data, compute data, and provide outputs at efficiency levels we have never seen before.

This includes everything from business task to risks and automation. Not to be a doomsdayer, there will be setbacks, risks, and exploits exposed, the bigger AI gets.

The next frontier is about systems that think, learn, and act without compromise, at scale, speed, and precision. Skills in automation, orchestration, and behavioural analytics are increasingly essential, but so is the ability to collaborate with AI to outpace today’ s adversaries.

Some of the limitations with today’ s cybersecurity solutions are part of its strengths. While many solutions are finding a way to do more or expand coverage of use cases, they are not always the right solution, or the enterprise solution, or the complete solution for tackling or mitigating risk.

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