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With a total of 42,000 attendees and a record number of exhibitors (600+) at the recently concluded annual\u00a0RSA conference<\/a>\u00a0in San Francisco, it certainly was a big show. While there were 17 keynotes and more than 550 sessions on various topics related to cybersecurity, a few themes seemed to bubble up to the top when looking at product announcements and roaming the expo halls.<\/p>\n

Orchestration, Integrated workflows, and SOC Efficiency<\/h2>\n

Many vendors realize that siloed tools and products are frustrating the heck out of their customers who are often left struggling with managing different dashboards and correlating data from different tools as they try to respond to incidents. To help solve some of these challenges, they are making a concentrated effort to improve orchestration capabilities, build partnerships and integrate their offerings.<\/p>\n

We saw more vendors integrate IT and security workflows by partnering with the likes of ServiceNow. IBM announced improvements to its Resilient Incident Response Platform including more intelligent orchestration to improve incident response procedures. Infoblox\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0integration with McAfee Web Gateway for broader protection and visibility the week before RSA.<\/p>\n

AI\/ML and Behavioral Analytics<\/h2>\n

If you haven\u2019t heard the term AI\/ML yet, you are probably living under a rock. I first heard the term artificial intelligence back in the late nineties and it is making a big comeback. Often coupled with machine learning, the general concept is that machines are provided access to data that enable them to learn to carry out certain tasks (even complicated tasks like driving) and get better at them as time progresses.<\/p>\n

As the security industry matures and threats get more complex, it\u2019s only natural that vendors start leveraging AI\/ML and behavioral analytics to improve their protection and incidence response capabilities. But just saying we do AI\/ML or behavioral analytics is like saying I drive around in my car. What are you trying to achieve? Where are you trying to go? What the security vendor is trying to achieve by leveraging AI\/ML seemed to be missing in many of the booth signages. I definitely think these new capabilities add a lot of value as we can no longer rely only on reputation or signature feeds, especially when the bad guys keep changing their methods and attack infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Extending Security to Containers<\/h2>\n

Securing containers, which have been around for five years now, is becoming the next frontier in cybersecurity as the technology becomes more mainstream. VMware announced that it is extending its AppDefense application security technology to protect workloads running on container runtime platforms. GuardiCore, a small security start-up that provides security for software-defined data centers, also announced new capabilities to help secure container deployments.<\/p>\n

Other topics of discussion included IoT security, data privacy including GDPR and deception based defense.<\/p>\n

Infoblox @ RSA<\/h2>\n

Infoblox had a lot of exciting things to talk about and demo at RSA including:<\/p>\n