Security News > 2023 > July > Exploring the macro shifts in enterprise security

"The shift to the cloud has been a long journey and attackers are taking advantage now that employees regularly log into multiple cloud services, often from outside the traditional enterprise network perimeter," said Ariel Tseitlin, Partner at Scale Venture Partners and an avid investor in the cloud and security industries.

As AI/ML models become more commonplace within organizations, 49% of security leaders worried about threat actors poisoning those AI/ML models to bypass security protections.

Security leaders continued to struggle to find security professionals with the required cybersecurity skills, with 57% of firms indicating the biggest barrier to achieving their desired security posture was not enough security personnel, up significantly from 42% last year.

60% of security leaders identified cloud security the most difficult role to fill on their teams.

More than 60% leveraged security tools with AI /ML capabilities to offset talent shortages, with 79% of security leaders believing AI/ML will be "Important" or "Extremely important" for improving their security posture by 2024.

83% of firms intend to enforce existing security policies more strictly this year to address their security challenges.

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