Cybersecurity has enjoyed good health but is an industry itching for innovation and transformation – and the next big thing, Teri Robinson reports.
When Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder on the Apollo 11 lunar module, the Eagle, and toed the moon’s surface, as he so aptly stated, his small step simultaneously represented a giant leap. The cybersecurity industry today is somewhere between that small step – a series of them, actually – and a really big leap.
We need a leap forward. Or so says Malcolm Harkins, chief security and trust officer at Cymatic. “We need transformational change rather a step” a la Apple or Uber, he says about an industry that has had its fair share of innovation but has seen much of its progression come from incremental changes that “are easier to get people to buy into.” But those incremental changes have resulted in complexity and a dependence on an array of products that keep cash flowing into the market but may or may not work in concert to solve the thorniest security problems.
Harkins envisions the kind of leap that would bring a much-needed simplicity to what has become for many organizations an increasingly c ..
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