Security News > 2023 > April > Cyberthreats take a toll on IT teams’ work on other projects

93% of organizations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging, according to Sophos.

IT professionals face challenging security operation tasks.

These challenges also include understanding how an attack happened, with 75% of respondents stating they have challenges identifying the root cause of an incident.

This can make proper remediation difficult, leaving organizations vulnerable to repetitive and/or multiple attacks, by the same or different adversaries, especially since 71% of those surveyed also reported challenges with timely remediation.

71% said they have challenges understanding which signals/alerts to investigate, and the same percent reported challenges prioritizing investigations.

"Today's threats require a timely and coordinated response. Unfortunately, too many organizations are stuck in reactive mode. Not only is this having an impact on core business priorities, but it also has a sizeable human toll, with over half of respondents stating that cyberattacks are keeping them up at night. Eliminating the guesswork and applying defensive controls based on actionable intelligence will let IT teams focus on enabling the business instead of trying to douse the eternal flame of active attacks," said Shier.

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