This edition of the Cyber Security Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) focuses on the critical shift towards Zero Trust frameworks that eliminate human oversight through automation, address the lateral movement of threats in distributed environments, and unify fragmented security stacks through intelligent orchestration. Notable developments include the implementation of Zero Trust 2.0 and Zero Touch 2.0 methodologies, the use of deterministic AI engines, agentless micro-segmentation, cloud-native stacks that replace legacy VPNs with identity-based micro-tunnels, and behavioral biometric authentication.

• How can you investigate new and emerging developments that aim to protect the network infrastructure and the resources operating in the network?
• Which new business opportunities can you uncover by assessing new developments and product launches in anti-spam, anti-virus, phishing, identity management, disaster recovery, firewalls, virtual private networks, end-point security, content filtering, web application security, authentication and access control, intrusion prevention and detection systems, encryption algorithms, cryptographic techniques, and pattern recognition systems?
• What are the key funding & investment opportunities for network security technologies, and how can you capitalize on technology accelerators for growth?