Security News > 2022 > February > How organizations are arming themselves to combat threats

Reblaze announced the results of a Global Surveyz survey of 300 security professionals, to better understand how organizations are approaching web security as we enter a new year.

"Unfortunately, it seems that many organizations have fallen behind in maintaining effective defenses. For example, although attack bots are used in multiple types of cyberattacks, half of the security professionals that were surveyed admitted that they didn't know the extent of bot activity in their applications, and of the remaining respondents, most of them underestimated the scope of the threat."

"Clearly, organizations that can't fully detect hostile activity also cannot block it. The good news is that most of the respondents also have plans to modernize their security tools and strategies, with strong growth predicted across several technology categories, especially in cloud-based security that's built on high visibility capabilities and machine learning and AI.".

Cloud-based security is growing: Companies have embraced cloud-based security technologies with 64% of respondents reporting they now use a native WAF from their cloud provider, while third-party WAFs and Unified Solutions are also popular, at 41% and 24% respectively.

Ninety-nine percent of respondents consider Adaptive Protection to be important, followed by API security at 98%. Most companies have inadequate defenses against hostile bots: Modern attack bots have become quite sophisticated, and for most security solutions that lack proper visibility, are difficult to detect.

While 50% of respondents have no idea about the percentage of hostile bots in their traffic, the other half think they know, but tend to radically underestimate the number, at an average of 6.2%. In reality, the percentage of hostile bots across web traffic is closer to 26%. The fastest-growing security technologies are bot solutions and unified solutions: With so many companies unable to accurately ascertain the composition of incoming traffic, it's no surprise that the security technology with the highest expected growth rate is dedicated bot solutions.

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