RSAC Conference 2025: Agentic AI and a Continued Move Toward Integration Emerge as Key Themes

Description

This IDC Market Perspective provides an overview of key trends, announcements, and other IDC insights from RSAC Conference 2025, held from April 28 to May 1 in San Francisco, California. This document highlights key trends identified at RSAC across cybersecurity product and service market segments, including agentic AI, data security and privacy, SOC automation, cybersecurity LLMs, and security platformization. "GenAI and agentic AI are poised to influence cybersecurity products, services, and processes as it races to keep up with the evolving threat landscape. RSAC 2025 underscored the industry's shift toward building more comprehensive security solutions to address emerging security challenges." - Jaclynn Anderson, research director, Cybersecurity, IDC

Product Code: US53463525

Executive Snapshot

New Market Developments and Dynamics

Introduction
Event Key Themes
- GenAI/Agentic AI Dominates Focus
  - A Platform Approach to AI Deployment
    - GenAI and Agentic AI Driving Data Security and Privacy Themes
    - AI Accelerates Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software
  - The Next Frontier of the SOC: From Automation to Autonomy
    - AI Agent Management
    - SIEM Functionality Enhancements
    - Exposure Management Sector Evolving
    - Encryption Risks from Quantum Computing
  - DSPM, AI-SPM Moving Toward CNAPP Integration
  - Regulations Ignite Confidential Computing Activity
    - AI Bill of Materials and Confidential AI Activity Building
    - One Platform - All Identities
    - Customized Cybersecurity LLMs Evolve
  - Endpoint Protection Focuses on Enhancing Business Performance
    - Integration and Interoperability
    - Fewer Silos from AI, Security, and Transformation
    - Security Services
Announcement Highlights
- Palo Alto Protect AI
- CrowdStrike Pulse Services
- GoSecure Managed Network Detection Response Service
- IBM Autonomous Threat Operations Machine
- Cisco Foundation-sec-8B Large Language Model
- Akamai's Firewall for AI
- ExtraHop All-in-One Virtual or Physical Sensor
- ForcePoint Data Security Cloud