Gartner Creates Another Category for Everyone to Ignore

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I have talked to vendors who get all excited about Gartner opening up a new category for them. All I can think is uggh, something new to confuse the security marketplace. I know there's a need to label products in categories to simplify sales. But the complexity is driving buyers nuts.

This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Our sponsored guest is RJ Friedman, CISO, Buchanan Technologies.

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In this episode: 

• Do we need another industry-produced acronym?
• How can a vendor better demonstrate they can become a partner?
• With the list of security “minimum requirements” constantly growing, do you believe more and more organizations are falling below the security poverty line?
• And we ask how best to reduce the amount of false positives?