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it-sa in Nuremberg is Europe's largest IT security trade fair - and it should be taken for what it is: a procurement marketplace. Hundreds of vendors, from global players to specialists, in a few halls. That is not a weakness but its value: nowhere else can you build a complete picture of the vendor market, pricing logic and category maturity in two days.
CISOs and security leaders from mid-sized and large companies, plus procurement, integrators and increasingly public authorities. Conversations are more concrete than at congresses - people compare here, they do not envision.
Anyone with security investments or tool consolidation ahead. And anyone who wants to check how vendors actually handle AI security - as a capability or as a facade.
If you are after strategic calm - architecture questions rather than product questions - the sales pressure will wear you down. The big lines of a security architecture are not drawn at a booth.
Our cybersecurity practice deliberately sits in Gelsenkirchen, in one of the most active security ecosystems in Germany - it-sa is our annual market calibration for it. How tool variety translates into resilient security architecture: Cybersecurity at Xient.