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Evolution of cybersecurity and Security Infrastructure as a Service
Musings about the past, present & the future of cybersecurity, why the current approach won’t scale, and what we can do next
Evolution of cybersecurity
As I mentioned in the previous article, there were 1,862 data breaches in 2021, surpassing both 2020’s total of 1,108 and the previous all-time record of 1,506 set in 2017.
Security entrepreneurs are taking a note and new startups emerge daily. Here is a ”simple” example of what has become a common way to group companies in a logical way — a so-called cybersecurity technology map:
This is a lot to take in, yet the above chart is one of the simplest illustrations available when searching “cybersecurity technology map”.
A reasonable question could be — how did we get here?
It’s a difficult question to answer as there are many variables that have led us here. The simplest answer might sound like this: “Every market goes through different stages of evolution. What we are seeing today in security is a natural evolutionary path, marked by milestones that appear inevitable, in hindsight”.
