Security Hot Takes: Buzzwords and Predictions
The overarching takeaway is that separating genuine technical substance from marketing language requires asking, for any buzzword: what specific capability gap does this actually close, i...
Two security practitioners independently wrote down the buzzwords and predictions they expected to dominate the cybersecurity industry through 2023, then compared notes one at a time to see where their picks matched. The exercise surfaces both genuine industry-wide consensus (where both practitioners landed on the same term independently) and areas of professional disagreement about which trends are substance versus marketing noise.
The following quadrant chart is an illustrative visualization of the practitioners' own sentiment during the discussion — plotting each buzzword by how much marketing hype it was getting on the security conference circuit versus how much genuine, deliverable security value the practitioners felt it currently provided. It is not a formal industry survey, just a synthesis of the opinions expressed in the conversation.
The first and, by consensus, the single most unavoidable topic of the year: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and — more specifically — large language model tools like ChatGPT. Both practitioners wrote this down independently without any prompting, calling it something that has been "shoved down our throats" across the industry.
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3 sections- 1 Table of Contents
- 2 Module 1: 2023 Security Buzzwords and Predictions
- 3 Summary
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