Last month, I attended our biggest-ever Cisco Live Melbourne that saw over 8,300 people registered. It was an action-packed week filled with partner and customer meetings, media engagements, analyst dialogues, and coffee, lots of coffee.

They say it takes a village to pull something this incredible off, and I have to agree. We kicked off the week with our Cybersecurity Innovation Day. It was an exclusive one-day thought-leadership platform for our partners and customers to deep-dive into the skills, processes and technologies to manage security risks, improve agility and operational efficiency with key global and national cybersecurity specialists from Cisco. I also had the honour of addressing over 200 partners with my colleagues from Cisco, TALOS and Duo to share our latest cybersecurity innovation, strategy, and most importantly, to thank them for the success we achieved together over the last 12 months.

Among the engagements and activities, here are five key topics that dominated the conversations I had, which are shaping security professionals