Security News > 2021 > November > How are organizations protecting their critical IT assets?

Telos unveiled findings from a research conducted by Vanson Bourne that explores how organizations approach network and critical IT asset protection.

The study, which polled 250 information technology, IT security, legal and risk/fraud/compliance professionals, revealed that 99 percent of organizations believe an attack on their critical IT assets would have repercussions not just for their organizations, but for society at large.

The state of critical IT asset protection 99 percent believe they need to improve their ability to prevent an attacker from accessing critical assets once they have broken into the network.

95 percent of those who have segmented and protected their critical IT assets believe that the assets are better protected as a result.

"Now is the time for organizations to consider a different approach - and the best way to protect critical assets is to hide them entirely."

Offering a path forward in today's threat landscape, 99 percent of respondents who have been kept awake at night by concerns about the protection of critical IT assets agree that they would sleep better if they could hide their network assets by eliminating IP addresses, making them invisible on the public internet via network obfuscation.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/11/24/critical-it-asset-protection/