Here's Where The Top Technology CEOs Are Placing Their Bets: CEO Outlook 2024

Hello, and welcome back. In this edition, we take a look at our annual CEO Outlook, featuring the insights of top technology CEOs on the year ahead, the standout cybersecurity companies recognized in our 2024 Security 100 list, cybersecurity reporter Kyle Alspach's analysis of the dramatic shift in Palo Alto Networks' growth strategy and more.

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CEO Outlook 2024

If you ask the world's leading technology CEOs what they consider the biggest market opportunity this year, not surprisingly, many will say artificial intelligence.

From AMD's Lisa Su to Google Cloud's Thomas Kurian, Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora and Cisco's Chuck Robbins, find out where the leaders featured in the 2024 edition of our annual CEO Outlook are placing their bets and how they're relying on partners to help them tackle emerging technology opportunities.

Related:

• Why 10 Top Tech CEOs See AI As One Of 2024's Biggest Opportunities
• Google Cloud CEO On Huge Investments, AI And Challenges In 2024
• What 5 Solution Provider CEOs See As The Biggest Market Opportunity In 2024

The 2024 Security 100

Based on our research and conversations with top solution provider executives, vendor CEOs and channel chiefs over the past year, we have selected 100 cybersecurity companies that represent the most significant opportunities for the channel in 2024 for recognition in our annual Security 100 list.

The 2024 edition highlights partner-friendly security vendors across key market segments including:

• Endpoint and managed security
• Identity, access and data security
• Network security
• Security operations, risk and threat intelligence and
• Web, email and application security

You can learn about all of this year's honorees here .

Analysis: Palo Alto Networks Disrupts Itself, Again

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora disclosed this week that the company has decided to take a short-term hit to growth (including through increasing free product offers to customers) to accelerate consolidation on its unified cybersecurity platform over the longer term.

In his analysis of that new growth strategy , CRN cybersecurity reporter Kyle Alspach says Arora is proving once again that taking the longer-term view matters more than short-term impacts on stock price.

Elsewhere In CRN

Check out some of CRN's other best-read stories on channel-related news, insights and analysis over the past week:

• Cisco COO Maria Martinez Suddenly Departs In Wake Of Widespread Layoffs
• AWS Storage VP Leaves For Microsoft Azure
• Huntress On 'Critical' ConnectWise Vulnerabilities: 'It Does Have A Certain Firestorm Potential' (Plus: Senior Associate Editor CJ Fairfield shares what she's learned while covering this unfolding news in a new episode of CRN In Depth on CRNtv.)

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