Highlights from Global Security Insights Report 2021
Cyber threats are more sophisticated and well-funded than ever. To protect your business, immerse yourself in the critical conversation of cyber security via this Global Security Insights Report. Thought leaders discuss the shift in threat, both short- and long-term, safeguards needed to protect both against chronos, and integrity attacks, as well as the need to look beyond response and toward prevention.
What is the Global Security Insights Report 2021 live broadcast about?
The Global Security Insights Report 2021 live broadcast focuses on how cyber threats are evolving and what that means for security leaders today. The session will look at the resurgence of ransomware, the rise in cloud-based attacks, and how cyber criminals are taking advantage of the anywhere workforce.
You’ll hear from VMware experts:
- Rick McElroy, Principal Cybersecurity Strategist
- Tom Kellermann, Head of Cybersecurity Strategy
- James Alliband, Senior Security Strategist
Together, they will walk through the key findings from the fourth edition of the Global Security Insights Report and discuss how organizations can rethink and rebuild their cybersecurity approach in light of more frequent material breaches and a more unpredictable attack surface.
Why is this an important moment to rethink cybersecurity strategy?
According to the Global Security Insights Report 2021, organizations are facing a combination of trends that make this a pivotal time to reimagine cybersecurity:
- There is a clear resurgence in ransomware activity.
- Cloud-based attacks are increasing as more workloads and data move off-premises.
- Cyber criminals are actively exploiting the anywhere workforce, targeting users and systems that operate outside traditional network boundaries.
These shifts are contributing to more material breaches and a less predictable attack surface. Rather than just adding more tools, the report suggests that security leaders use this moment to rethink and reshape their overall security strategy—how they secure users, applications, and data across distributed environments—so they can better keep pace with increasingly sophisticated attacks.
What will I learn that I can apply in my organization?
The live broadcast is designed to move from research to practical action. By attending, you can expect to:
- Understand the latest global threat trends, including how ransomware and cloud-based attacks are evolving.
- Get insight into how attackers are targeting the anywhere workforce and what that means for your defenses.
- Learn actionable strategies from VMware’s security strategists on how to protect your organization against more sophisticated cyber attacks.
The discussion will help you rethink how you approach risk, prioritize investments, and align your security strategy with the realities of a distributed, cloud-centric environment—so you can make more informed decisions about how to protect your business.
Highlights from Global Security Insights Report 2021
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We do not sell, implement, or operate the AI products we review. We are paid only by the buyer, never by the vendor. That separation is the product: it is what makes our findings defensible in front of security, architecture, risk, and audit stakeholders.
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- Structured, repeatable review logic. Phases, evidence rules, severity calibration, and gate criteria are defined in advance, not invented per engagement. The methodology is published and inspectable on GitHub without a sales call.
- Grounded in your environment. Findings are tested against your identities, data paths, integrations, and workflows as actually deployed, not against the vendor's reference architecture.
- Decision-ready outputs. Every engagement ends in a written position: go, conditional go, or no-go, with a traceable findings register, evidence requests, and conditions tied to POC, pilot, and production gates.
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- AI implementation assurance reviews. Fixed-structure packages from a two-week rapid readiness review of one tool through a portfolio program covering three or more tools under one assurance standard.
- Architecture and trust-boundary analysis. Deployment model, data flow, identity, and integration scope for AI systems, documented in formats governance forums already recognize.
- AI vendor claim verification. Assessment of whether a vendor's published security and data-handling claims are checkable, contractual-only, or unverifiable, before those claims underwrite an approval.
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Approvers carry personal and organizational risk when they sign off on an AI deployment. Our job is to make sure they sign with evidence in hand. For more information, visit www.mayhemshield.com or contact us at info@mayhemshield.com.
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