Almost 80% of IT executives and IT leaders think that their companies have insufficient protection against cybersecurity even with the increased investments made on cybersecurity last year in an effort to address the challenges brought on by work-from-home and distributed IT.
That increased level of concern over the capability to
address cybersecurity threats in these day’s complicated IT environment has
prompted 91% of companies to boost their cybersecurity budgets this year,
almost matching the 96% increase in ITspending last year.
The Cybersecurity at Crossroads report was based on the impact of the transition to a work from home setting and the distributed IT landscape on IT security. The survey revealed that 78% don’t trust their organization’s IT security posture and think that improvements should be made. About 32% of the respondents of the study have the least confidence in the IT security posture of their company. About 30% don’t trust their security related technology and 27% on their skillsets and internal teams. They reported the highest confidence level on the data management strategy of their company however only 45% trust this part of security operations.
The Other Key Findings Include:
1.
Cybersecurity is being added into different business
aspects, which indicates an increasing recognition of the risk that a
cyberattack presents to company operations.
2.
Organizations shifted their cybersecurity modernization
priorities last year as a result of the urgent challenges that were presented
by the global pandemic.
3.
Most long range and complicated security projects were
placed at the back seat to prevent and deal with activities such as anti-virus
and anti malware upgrades, firewall as a Service or FWaaS, and multi-factor
authentication.
The Survey Includes Key Challenges That Companies Face When Boosting Their Security Posture
1.
55% of the respondents said that lack of automation is
the primary challenge in terms of security management and operations. Companies
are unable to evaluate and respond to the countless events and notifications
generated by the rising complicated security infrastructure.
2.
Only a meagre 27% of the respondents expanded their security
staff last year, marking a slight decrease from 30% the previous year. Because
of this, IT teams and ITConsultant Columbia SC were stretched thin and without most of the IT
support experts needed to perform the range of IT tasks required by the
evolving threatscape of the year.
3.
Only 57% performed a data security risk assessment last
year even though there was a need to recheck their security posture as new
threats came out during the global pandemic.
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