SHARE Top security pros say the SolarWinds hack and the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated a change in their cybersecurity spending patterns. Not only must chief information security officers secure an increasingly distributed workforce, but they now must also be wary of software code coming from reputable vendors, including the very patches designed to protect them against cyberattacks. Organizations are increasingly prioritizing zero-trust approaches, including simplified identity access management, better endpoint protection and cloud security. And while leading solutions in these sectors are gaining momentum, traditional legacy offerings are being managed down from a spending perspective. In this Breaking Analysis, we’ll summarize CISO sentiments from a recent Enterprise Technology Research VENN session and provide our quarterly update of the cybersecurity market. In an upcoming episode we’ll be inviting Erik Bradley of ETR to provide deeper analysis on these trends. Here we’ll give you a first look and initial reading of what’s happening in the information security sector as we kick off 2021.