The Security Industry

Good News, Bad News

Regarding my book journey

Nov 25 • 

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Portfolio Analysis with the IT-Harvest Dashboard

A New Use Case

Nov 3 • 

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October 2025

Of Long Tails and Stalking Horses

What Are Analyst Firms Going to Do?

Oct 30 • 

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Organizing by Domains

14 Security Functions, each with a Deputy CISO

Oct 29 • 

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Adding Security Stack Analysis to the IT-Harvest Dashboard

Biggest upgrade to-date

Oct 20 • 

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Mapping 11,326 products to NIST CSF 2.0

At IT-Harvest we set out to harvest all the data on the cybersecurity industry and put it in a searchable database.

Oct 19 • 

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State of Cyber Q3 2025

$12.9 billion in funding set to surpass 2024.

Oct 2 • 

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September 2025

State of AI Security

See the accompanying webinar here.

Sep 18 • 

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Tease: HarvestIQ 2.0 is almost ready to go

In June we announced that HarvestIQ was getting a major upgrade.

Sep 9 • 

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August 2025

Does Generative AI Pose a Threat to Industry Analyst Firms?

Oliver Rochford, a former Gartner Director of Research and a futurist, posted an insightful take on Microsoft’s recent paper on the impact of AI on…

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July 2025

307 Cybersecurity Exhibitors at Black Hat 2025

For two days in August you will be able to explore a representative cross section of the entire cybersecurity industry at Black Hat USA 2025.

Jul 25 • 

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290 Cybersecurity Funding Rounds, 160 Acquisitions

1H 2025

Jul 23 • 

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