The annual RSA Conference held in San Francisco every spring is one of the largest, most prominent security conferences in the world. And every year there’s one main theme or trend that stands out. It was no surprise that the predominant theme this year was AI.
Officially, 600 exhibitors participated in RSAC 2024. A good percentage of those security vendors announced AI enhancements of their existing products or new security products to protect AI workloads. In fact, this year’s RSAC Innovation Sandbox winner, AI fraud detection startup Reality Defender, focuses on identifying AI-created deepfakes.
Looking beyond the AI noise and hype, another interesting trend caught my attention: In the weeks leading up to and during the conference, a number of security vendors announced new risk-related capabilities.
Prior to this year, the inclusion of risk capabilities in security products was rare and almost exclusively relegated to governance risk and compliance (GRC) or third-party risk products. However, security vendors are reacting to the increasing pressure that CISOs and security teams are under as a result of the ever-increasing number of security incidents and breaches by…
