Security News > 2020 > July > Adopting more tools doesn’t necessarily improve security response efforts

The global survey conducted by Ponemon Institute found that respondents' security response efforts were hindered by the use of too many security tools, as well as a lack of specific playbooks for common attack types.

Slowly improving: More surveyed organizations have adopted formal, enterprise-wide security response plans over the past 5 years of the study; growing from 18% of respondents in 2015, to 26% in this year's report.

Better planning, less disruption: Companies with formal security response efforts applied across the business were less likely to experience significant disruption as the result of a cyberattack; over the past two years, only 39% of these companies experienced a disruptive security incident, compared to 62% of those with less formal/consistent plans.

These findings suggest that adopting more tools didn't necessarily improve security response efforts - in fact, it may have done the opposite.

Overall, the data suggests that surveyed organizations that were more mature in their response preparedness relied more heavily on technology innovations to become more resilient.

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