Every year, I attempt to distill the infosec zeitgeist into a bingo card filled with all the obnoxious, flamboyant, and inane buzzwords permeating the industry. This blog post includes all editions of the bingo card for your amusement and / or existential crises, and will be updated annually.

2023 Cyber Startup Buzzword Bingo Card

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The 2023 edition of the cyber buzzword bingo card. The background is terrible cyber art that is roughly a head made up of code with glowing digital bits swirling around it. The head hovers over a purple and pink checkered floor; it’s all very cyber. In order from left to right, starting on the upper left side, the buzzwords included on the card are as follows. Posture. Engine. Coverage. DevSecOps. Sensitive. Faster. Discover. Full. API. Control. Modern. Complete. Platform, which is the center word of the bingo card. Workflows. Trusted. Prioritize. Zero Trust. Exposure. CI/CD. Surface. Developers. Single. Cloud. Insights. Supply Chain.

2022 Infosec Buzzword Bingo Card

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Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo card for 2022. The background is terrible cyber art that is roughly a translucent caution sign resting above vaporwave colored cubes that are meant to look vaguely like a circuit board. In order from left to right, starting on the upper left side, the buzzwords included on the card are as follows. Automated. Discover. Cloud-native. Engine. Visibility. API. AI / ML. Seamless. Posture. One-click. Powerful. Dynamic. Continuous, which is the center word of the bingo card. Deep. Accelerate. Simple. Zero Trust. Agentless. Native. Lifecycle. Platform. Accurate. Enforce. Real-time. Context.

2020 Infosec Buzzword Bingo Card

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Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo card for 2020. The buzzwords, from top left to bottom right include: Real-time. Complex. Comprehensive. Flexible. Machine Learning and AI. Modern. Unique. Deep. Accurate. Leading. Seamless. Accelerate. Visibility (the center square). Next-gen. Actionable. Sophisticated. Simplify. Proactive. Gaps. Empower. Continuous. Unknown. Insights. Robust. Advanced

2019 Infosec Buzzword Bingo Card

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Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo card for 2019. The buzzwords, from top left to bottom right, include: Threat. Context. Machine Learning and AI. Discover. Real-time. Cyber. Insights. Seamless. Comprehensive. Simplify. Intelligence. Scalable. Automation (the center square). Actionable. Platform. Deep. Orchestrated. Empower. Prioritization. Behavioral. Visibility. Workflow. Advanced. Unknown. Continuous.

2018 Infosec Buzzword Bingo Card

Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo card for 2018. The buzzwords, from top left to bottom right, include: Automated. Context. Advanced and Unknown. Actionable. AI. Insights. Continuous. Sophisticated. Comprehensive. Behavioral. Platform. Proactive. Threat (the center square). Purpose-built. Machine learning. Next-gen. Prioritize. Intelligence. Scalable. Predictive. Visibility. Seamless. Hunt. Unparalleled and Unprecedented. Real-time.

2017 Infosec Buzzword Bingo Card

It all started with a Tweet. Infosec Startup Buzzword Bingo card for 2017. The buzzwords, from top left to bottom right, include: Continuous. Next-gen. Names with Cy, Threat, or Lock in them. Machine learning. Purpose-built. Visibility. Best-of-breed. Ex-intelligence community founders. AI. Real-time. Thwarts. Unknown or Advanced Threats. Cyber (the center square). Behavioral. Automation. Actionable. Military-grade. Proactive. Anomalies. Single-pane-of-glass. Intelligence. Sophisticated. Context-aware. Deep web. End-to-end.