I was struck by the large number of vendors offering visibility as a key selling point. Into various types of network traffic. Network monitors, industrial network gateways, SSL inspection, traffic in VM farms, between containers, and on mobile.

More expected are the vendors offering reduced visibility – via encryption, TPMs, Secure Enclaves, mobile remote desktop, one way links, encrypted storage in the cloud etc. The variety of these solutions is also remarkable.

Neil Degrasse’s closing talk was so different yet strangely related to these topics, the universe slowly making itself visible to us through light from distant places, with insights from physicists and mathematics building up to the experiments that recently confirmed gravitational waves – making the invisible, visible. . This tenuous connection between security and physics left me misty eyed. What an amazing time to be living in.