Security News > 2022 > June > Inside the RSAC expo: Buzzword bingo and the bear in the room

Do organizations really choose security vendors based on a booth? The whole expo hall idea seems like an outdated business model - for the vendors, anyway.

A zero trust security framework essentially boils down to trusting no-one on the network, let alone anyone connecting in from the outside, and assuming there has been a security breach.

All of the former endpoint security and security information and event management companies are now selling XDR - extended detection and response.

This buzzy acronym was all over Moscone's walls and expo booths, as security vendors rolled out their various flavors of threat hunting, detection and prevention across all attack surfaces.

"Everyone is frustrated with the amount of talk on AI, zero trust and XDR," CrowdStrike CTO Mike Sentonas told The Register in an interview at his company's hotel suite.

While XDR and zero trust won RSA Conference buzzword bingo this year, Ukraine - and the security threats surrounding the Russian invasion - were the topics on everyone's minds.

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