Cyber complexity negatively impacts a company’s ability to respond to threats

2021-11-18 05:00

71% of VPs and CIOs believe that the high number of cybersecurity tools they use negatively impacts their organization's ability to detect and prevent threats, a Perimeter 81 report reveals.

The research evaluated responses from 500 IT professionals at companies with 50 or more employees in the US. It covers new trends in the workforce due to COVID-19, how those changes have affected cybersecurity, and their impact on IT professionals.

"This has led to the painful and complex reality in which the average CISO is forced to manage dozens of cybersecurity solutions, which impedes their ability to secure and defend their networks. We call this problem the 'Cyber Complexity Trap.'".

Additional findings 50% of companies with more than 1,000 employees use 20 or more cybersecurity tools and solutions.

34% of companies have made cybersecurity a priority due to news coverage of cyber incidents.

"One of the complexities rapid adoption to hybrid work has brought, stems from an organization's growing SaaS app stack - environments that are dynamic, continuously updating, with a staggering amount of configurations for the CISO and security team to monitor and manage. Moreover, oftentimes the security team has no visibility at all to what is going on in the SaaS apps, as the SaaS admins sit outside the security team, in the department that predominantly uses that SaaS," Maor Bin, CEO of Adaptive Shield, told Help Net Security.

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