Five Takeaways f r o m Vanson Bourne & Juniper N e t w o r k s Cybersecurity Market Research by Pushpendra Mishra |
Posted by Sunil K. Kotagiri Cybersecurity has become a key issue impacting strategic decisions at the highest level within organizations. The increasing sophistication of today’s threat landscape and growing number of high-pro le breaches have impacted businesses of all sizes struggling to protect their most important assets – data, reputation and people. Juniper Networks in association wi t h Vanson Bourne recently conducted a comprehensive study to identify, assess and investigate the top cybersecurity threats that enterprises are experiencing. They looked at h o w these threats and pain points are changing or predicted to change in immediate future, and h o w AI and machine learning are helping enterprises protect themselves from constantly changing adversaries. Please click here to view the complete report. As this research paper correctly stated, cybersecurity is tumulus. In fact, the only element of this landscape that is stable, is that it is unstable, unpredictable and ever changing. De ning and describing this new form of crime is relatively easy, but preventing it is a completely different game. I wo uld like to highlight a few very critical ndings of this research that are w o rt h further discussion and consideration:
Only 31% of respondents believe that the cybersecurity solutions used within their organization have done exactly what they promised to do when they were purchased. Approaching nine-in-ten (86%) believe that if their organization were to use and end-to-end solution they would be much more secure.
These two ndings are spot on. Seceon’s experience working with hundreds of enterprises big and small, across multiple verticals, demonstrates that the biggest challenge security teams face today is having to deal with the sheer volume of alerts from multiple siloed solutions security solutions that are deployed to address singular needs. SILO solutions lack global