Security News > 2023 > September > Cisco: Booming identity market driven by leadership awareness

A new study by Cisco Investments with venture capital firms finds that most CISOs find complexity of tools, number of solutions and users, and even jargon a barrier to zero trust.

The guide, which explored the cybersecurity market around identity management, data protection, software supply chain integrity and cloud migration, resulted from interviews with Cisco customers, chief information security officers, innovators, startup founders and other experts.

The key spending priorities the report unearthed constituted a fairly even split, with user and device identity being cited by the largest number of CISOs, followed by cloud identity, governance and remote access.

The top motivators that CISOs cited for investing in identity management solutions are managing user access privileges, identity compliance and the rapid growth of organizations' threat surfaces.

In the study, Forgepoint analysts said controlling access to information remains the crux of cybersecurity, with data identity and privileged access management being top priority for CISOs.

Cisco said Lifecycle Services will help IT leaders scale technology strategies that support top business priorities across their organization by giving them access to Cisco experts, proprietary digital insights, ML/AI tools and measurement best practices to report on KPIs in support of the overall business mission and goals of the organization.

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