Security's Fifth Estate: Predictions for 2023 - by Rak Garg

Thank you to my partner Enrique Salem for debate and feedback. If you’re thinking about security, I’d love to meet you. Shoot me a note at rgarg@baincapital.com! Historically, there have been four big categories in security: cloud (evolving from networks prior), identity, email, and endpoint. In every generation, each of these categories has supported at least one really big winner. Over the last decade, new threat vectors have illuminated gaps in the armor, leading to a proliferation of security point products. CISOs opted for best of breed tooling because, as everyone knows, you’d rather have paid up for a tool that works than have saved budget and gotten breached. Today, point product proliferation is reaching a tipping point. It’s common to hear CISOs lament the dozens of point products they have tried to no avail. One CISO I spoke had adopted over 50 startup products in his security program, and wasn’t sure that many were effective! Thanks for reading Rak's Facts! Subscribe for fr

Thank you to my partner Enrique Salem for debate and feedback. If you’re thinking about security, I’d love to meet you. Shoot me a note at rgarg@baincapital.com! Historically, there have been four big categories in security: cloud (evolving from networks prior), identity, email, and endpoint. In every generation, each of these categories has supported at least one really big winner. Over the last decade, new threat vectors have illuminated gaps in the armor, leading to a proliferation of security point products. CISOs opted for best of breed tooling because, as everyone knows, you’d rather hav