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  • 2 months ago | stiennon.substack.com | Richard Stiennon

    One of the top reasons I visit the RSA Conference every year is that the Expo halls contain a representative slice of the entire cybersecurity industry. This year that means 382 of 3,818 active vendors are exhibiting, exactly 10%. (We have archived an additional 558 vendors in the IT-Harvest Dashboard for historical record keeping.) Last year there were 375 exhibitors.

  • 2 months ago | stiennon.substack.com | Richard Stiennon

    You may have missed the earth shattering predictions that a group of very smart humans published two weeks ago: the AI 2027 report. I have read their elaborate scenario and watched this three hour discussion from two of the authors. First of all, who are these people that are predicting the potential demise of the human race in less than three years? Scott Alexander is a successful blogger in the world of tech. His blog here on Substack is Astral Codex Ten.

  • 2 months ago | stiennon.substack.com | Richard Stiennon

    Every year I scramble to pull together the Security Yearbook so it can get to the printer as early as possible. This year I was ready to go on January 1. I have to wait until all the data is in for the year before spitting out the Directory of all the vendors from the IT-Harvest Dashboard. In November I went to Lake Huron for four days to lay out every chapter and identify updates. I do my best writing when I have a horizon to stare at. Freighters are a bonus.

  • Feb 16, 2025 | stiennon.substack.com | Richard Stiennon

    Most of the 6,666 readers of this substack will have noticed a change in the IT-Harvest Dashboard over time. If you tuned in early you saw screenshots and features of a platform for researching the entire cybersecurity industry. In a post titled Journey to a Data-Driven Analyst Firm, I indicated the direction we were going in January 2022. When we launched that March it was called the Analyst Dashboard and the intended users were VCs, private equity firms, and other industry analysts.

  • Jan 21, 2025 | linkedin.com | Richard Stiennon

    Richard Stiennon On a mission to provide actionable insights and foster informed decision-making with complete data on the cybersecurity industry.

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