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Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.Boston, MA: Each year, Gartner analysts assess trends in manufacturing to create the Gartner Hype Cycle, a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. I'm off to dig into the details of these movers and shakers. Let's also hope SIEMs get on a trajectory to augment logs with more complete and timely data sets from agents and the network. I think this recognizes the continuing data and process management pressures on security operations, and the cry for reduced complexity and increased speed. It moved backwards, returning from the plateau of productivity to the slope of enlightenment and earning a two- to five-year timeline.
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Software-defined Security took a big leap forward, blowing past the trough to land on the cusp of the slope of enlightenment.In my view, NTA has moved from concept to thought leader adoption, and the next year will see leaders and laggards shake out. Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) advanced in both placement and time horizon – from the peak of expectations to the trough of disillusionment, and from five to 10 years to two to five years.Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters." Since this function seems to be merging rapidly into the SIEM, I question if it will even exist next year. Producers of the technology shake out or fail.
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User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) plunged from the peak of inflated expectations toward the bottom of the trough of disillusionment, which is the point, according to Gartner, where "interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver.My key takeaways from comparing this year with last are as follows: The Movers: On July 13, 2018, Gartner released the Hype Cycle for Threat-Facing Technologies, 2018. I also get more value from the writeups when I do read them. Many of the categories are ones I've worked with over the last 15 years, and it's fascinating to see how technologies are faring. When Gartner releases a Hype Cycle or Magic Quadrant, I like to do a compare/contrast with the previous report before I read the write-ups.