AWS is a company that has multiple security offerings, but doesn't try to make money from them. Security isn't a business for AWS as much as it is a base layer for everything it does. Here's a look at AWS re:Inforce 2025 and my key takeaways.
Amazon Web Services is using its Nova models for tailored use cases including cybersecurity. Other takeaways from a chat with Amazon and AWS chief information security offers included the combination of physical and cybersecurity and how humans and AI code differently.
For Amazon Web Services customers, the continuum between security services and the rest of the cloud vendor's portfolio covering storage, data, AI and compute tends to blend together.
AWS Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog said cybersecurity is becoming more about the time to act than time to detect due to the sheer scale of incidents and alerts. Hertzog pitched a more active defense approach amid emerging AI use cases.
Zscaler has its own plans to consolidate your cybersecurity budget as it branches out from network security to securing data and agentic AI operations.
CrowdStrike delivered mixed first quarter results and second quarter outlook.
Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings as the company continues to consolidate cybersecurity budgets.
Quantinuum quantum computers have created true verifiable randomness in a project that could be valuable to cybersecurity.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said: "Our vision is to bring each of our unique strengths together to offer customers and partners a highly differentiated, Unified Security Platform."
The cybersecurity majors are betting that the enterprise move to autonomous AI agents will speed up platform consolidation. The biggest takeaway may be that securing agentic AI may be a headache initially. However, the destination is clear. Agentic AI will ultimately be secured by cybersecurity agents.
Zscaler delivered better-than-expected second quarter results as the company platform is gaining due to its zero trust architecture and the need to secure AI applications.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the company is "on the flight path to our $10 billion ending ARR (annual recurring revenue) goal."
