Security News > 2020 > September > Expanding threat landscape is biggest concern, cybersecurity analysts tell Gartner
A new survey of cybersecurity experts by Gartner found that analysts are most concerned about the rapidly evolving threat landscape, which has changed exponentially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gartner conducted the Security and IAM Solution Adoption Trend Survey online in March and April, taking in responses from 405 experts in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.
"External risk is top of mind for security and risk management leaders in 2020, yet COVID-19 has proved how rapidly and how drastically such risks can change," said Jonathan Care, senior research director at Gartner.
All of the digital workplace solutions that were implemented to supplement the loss of in-person work spaces spurred new threat vectors, and security teams had no choice but to create entirely new methods of protecting remote endpoints as well as managing patches.
These platforms will be used to replace the kind of legacy antivirus products that are proving to have difficulty adapting to the kind of evolving threat landscape that the survey respondents cited as a major concern.