Security News > 2022 > July > The infosec investment landscape: Which tech gets the most bucks?

How many cybersecurity vendors are active at the moment? What are they offering? How is their business doing? These are just some of the questions that Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, is trying to answer on a daily basis.

The former Gartner Research VP and industry executive is one of the industry's most prominent analysts and creator of the Analyst Dashboard, a web app that reveals data on 2,850 cybersecurity vendors.

In this Help Net Security interview, he talks about the infosec investment landscape as well as the challenges related to gathering all this data.

How has the dynamic of investments in cybersecurity startups changed over the years?

Over the years the cybersecurity investment ecosystem has grown in parallel with the industry itself, which, in turn, grows with technology adoption and in response to attacks against that technology.

In the beginning, cybersecurity investment was a tuck-in to the dot-com boom.

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