Security News > 2020 > February > Combat complexity to prevent cybersecurity fatigue

While vendor consolidation is steadily increasing with 86 percent of organizations using between 1 and 20 cybersecurity vendors, more than 20 percent feel that managing a multi-vendor environment is very challenging, which has increased by 8 percent since 2017, according to a Cisco's CISO Benchmark Report for which they surveyed 2,800 security professionals from 13 countries around the globe.

To combat cybersecurity complexity, security professionals are increasing investments in automation to simplify and speed up response times in their security ecosystems; using cloud security to improve visibility into their networks; and sustaining collaboration between networking, endpoint and security teams.

"As organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation, CISOs are placing higher priority in adopting new security technologies to reduce exposure against malicious actors and threats. Often, many of these solutions don't integrate, creating substantial complexity in managing their security environment," said Steve Martino, Senior Vice President and CISO, Cisco.

Security pros improving their security posture Collaboration between network and security teams remains high- Ninety-one percent of respondents reported they're very or extremely collaborative.

To reduce complexity and alert overload, adopt an integrated platform approach when managing multiple security solutions.

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