The Cybersecurity Industrial Complex

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VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last year, investors poured $5 billion in cybersecurity startups. The whole industry will be worth $170 billion in three years, according to a recent estimate. There’s so many infosec companies it's hard to keep track of them. And yet, are we all really secure? Is the infosec industry really keeping us safe? Is it even focusing on the right problems?

Next week, tens of thousands of people will meet in San Francisco for the year’s biggest information security gathering focused on business: the RSA Conference.

Kelly Shortridge is the vice president of product strategy at Capsule8, a New York City-based security startup. Kelly has a background in economics, investment banking, and has studied the infosec market. She’s here today to help us understand why the infosec industry is so big, and what’s wrong with it.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:07.0	It's a unit system.
0:12.0	I know this.
0:14.0	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells her everything.
0:19.0	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.7	Eagle won.
0:22.4	The package is being delivered.
0:24.0	Last year, investors poured $5 billion into cybersecurity startups.
0:28.8	The whole industry will be worth $170 billion in three years,
0:32.5	according to a recent estimate.
0:34.1	There's so many Infosec companies it's hard to keep track of.
0:39.1	And yet, are we all really secure? Is the Infosec industry really keeping us safe? And is it even focusing on the right
0:45.0	problems? Next week, tens of thousands of people will meet in San Francisco for the year's
0:50.5	biggest information security gathering focused on business, the RSA conference.
0:56.1	Kelly Shortridge is the vice president of product strategy at Capsule 8, a New York City-based
1:01.5	security startup.
1:03.4	Kelly has a background in economics, investment banking, and has studied the Infosec market.
1:08.6	She's here today to help us understand why the Infosec industry is so big,
1:13.7	and what's wrong with it?
1:15.8	I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.
1:21.8	So, tell me about this
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