Security News > 2021 > February > Cybersecurity pros: Automation and app security are top priorities in 2021

Two of the areas that we had mentioned by a lot of our CISOs were security automation and application security.

In the case of security automation, it's well known that there is a big talent shortage in the security market.

Karen Roby: Bob, from that survey, 64% of those who responded said that cloud security is their top priority this year.

Bob Blakley: As you mentioned, 64% of the CISOs in our village survey mentioned cloud security as their top area for investment in 2021.

That's one of the reasons why we are emphasizing, in our new cyber brief that we published recently, both smarter security, which is the application of not just automation but artificial intelligence and other technologies to the operation of the security program, but also shift-left and increasing adoption of cloud security technologies to allow the security organizations to make more efficient use of the limited staff resources that they have.

The idea behind the cyber brief was we wanted to lay out our thesis for what trends and developments were likely to influence the development of information security and cybersecurity for the next three to five years.

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