Author, industry analyst, and founder of IT-Harvest, Richard Stiennon, today announced the release of Security Yearbook 2020: A History and Directory of the IT Security Industry. The new book will be available for immediate shipping from Amazon on February 14.
Cybercrime is one of the biggest issues that humanity will face in the coming years. Cyber espionage and cyberwarfare can destabilize governments, undermine elections and exploit vulnerabilities in a nations critical infrastructure. Its economic impact is driving drastic changes to how every organization is deploying technology. For more than 20 years, companies have been built and burnt in the quest to provide the best cybersecurity solutions to keep the bad actors at bay. This is the first time their stories have been collected in one place to give a true historical analysis of one of the most important emergent industries in modern times.
The result of over a decade of research, Security Yearbook 2020: A History and Directory of the IT Security Industry starts at the early days of RACF, ACF2, Check Point Software, Symantec, and McAfee, coming right up to the present day comprised of over 2,336 vendors worldwide, where…