Security News > 2020 > April > Why You Need to Put Your Security to the Test

A recent survey of security operations effectiveness found that just 37 percent of security professionals have hard evidence to verify their security products are configured and operating correctly.

It's critical that organizations implement an in-depth testing strategy to close these security gaps and cut the risk of being breached, rather than simply trusting and hoping their security products are performing as expected.

In the company sponsored security operations effectiveness survey, two-thirds of respondents stated that the functions of their security tools overlap with each other, and 41 percent said this overlap was unintentional.

This tool sprawl leads to wasted security budgets, increased management time for IT and security teams, and expands the organization's attack surface.

No organization has fully-automated security: IT security teams need regular practice on how to deal with a range of situations so they can be part of the solution, rather than inadvertently becoming part of the problem.

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