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ThreatQuotient released the State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021, new research focused on understanding the importance, challenges and trends facing businesses and their CISOs when it comes to IT security systems automation.

Recognised importance of IT security automation 77% of survey respondents stated IT security automation is important to senior security professionals.

CISOs and automation challenges 92% of organizations have experienced problems/issues when implementing IT security automation.

31% of organizations that have automation capabilities built into technologies such as SIEMs, Endpoint Detection & Response and Security Automation & Orchestration solutions do not trust these to automate much beyond basic tasks such as sending out notifications or running a threat intelligence query.

Future expectations and vision for the success for IT security automation Going forward for IT security automation to be successful, 51% of the survey respondents said that well-defined manual processes were required.

"To gain a clearer picture of the state of IT security automation and adoption and understand what is either accelerating or holding UK PLC back, we commissioned this survey to understand how far down the road senior cybersecurity professionals are with their IT security automation initiatives," said Anthony Perridge, Vice President, International, ThreatQuotient.

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