Notes from the keynotes: Cyber conference speeches highlight evolving customer demands, progress and big-picture goals

NEW YORK CITY. When attendance at an annual conference jumps from 300 to 1,000 in a year, something’s going on – and in the case of the Carbon Black cybersecurity gathering, that can be boiled down to increasingly sophisticated expectations from consumers of cyber products, signs of important progress and evolving big-picture goals in this policy space.

Those themes were offered and explored in the four individual keynote speeches at the Oct. 10-11 conference here, and were reinforced by panel...