At this year's RSAC, I sat down in 49 vendor briefings, each of which lasted 30 minutes, from Monday to Friday. So if you think, "Why should I believe Alissa when she tells me about the takeaways from this year's RSA?" Well ... in the memorable words of Bill Engvall, "Here's your sign."
If the show floor at RSAC is in any way indicative of the overall trends we'll see in cybersecurity controls in 2019, then I pretty much nailed it in my Aite Group report Top 10 Trends in Cybersecurity, 2019: User Experience and Machine Learning.
The words I'd use to describe the cybersecurity trends in 2019 and takeaways from this year's RSAC are “automation,” “AI,” “data,” “removing the human,” and “frictionless.”