Diverse perspectives on the future of Cloud security & DevSecOpsLast week we hosted a series of C-suite fireside chats with executives across the VC(Battery Ventures), private (Lacework, Illumio), public (VMWare), and systemsintegration (XTS Consulting) spectrum with perspectives on the nascent marketopportunity, ramping spending dynamics, and fragmented competitive landscape forCloud security and DevSecOps. A full replay is accessible on-demand here until April14th; condensed notes inside.

Top recurring themes from our conversations

Top themes from the discussion: 1) DevSecOps a promising conduit to reduce laborintensity and reactive nature of traditional cyber approaches, but beholden to skillsdeficit, siloed tech/procurement within orgs, and adoption velocity of modern inframicroservices, containers; 2) Cloud migration accelerated by COVID, SUNBURST istangibly elevating SASE, Zero Trust, and pure Cloud security mindshare, but expect thesespaces to be dominated by a multitude of incumbent and new-age platforms as attackvectors multiply, IT architectures stay hybrid, and infra becomes more distributed andephemeral; 3) hyperscalers' cyber value-add likely to stay concentrated in certain areas(ie. DDoS) with Cloud cyber hygiene burden to remain on enterprises given workloadidiosyncrasies and appetite for multi-Cloud sourcing, leaving an open market for a thirdparty vendor ecosystem; 4) observability vendors (DDOG, DT) running into "shiftleft" security and leveraging a data collection competence for cyber outcomes is alogical and exciting extension but true domain expertise, efficacy / accuracy, andCISO access to remain hurdles; 5) as software buying centers shift, particularly towardsdevelopers, Cloud security and DevSecOps initiatives are increasingly enjoying net-new,line-of-business sourced budgets.