Download: The State of Security Breach Protection 2020 Survey Results

To answer this, we polled 1,536 cybersecurity professionals in
The State of Breach Protection 2020 survey (Download the full
survey here^[1]) to understand the
common practices, prioritization, and preferences of the
organization today in protecting themselves from breaches.

Security executives face significant challenges when confronting
the evolving threat landscape.

For example:

• What type of attacks pose the greatest risk, and what security
  products would best address them?
• Is it better to build a strong team in-house, outsource the
  entire security operation, or search for a sweet spot between the
  two?
• What type and level of automation should be introduced into the
  breach protection workflows?

The State of Breach
Protection 2020 survey provides insights into these questions
and others.

Here are a few of the insights the survey unveils:

1) Lack of consolidation is a protection
inhibitor — Organizations that currently
deploy advanced security products report that maintaining a
multi-product security stack (especially in advanced security
product groups) is the main obstacle in reaching the desired
protection.

4) Advanced threat protection still involves a high volume of
attended alerts — All organizations that
deploy SIEM, EDR/EPP, Network Traffic Analysis, UEBA, or Deception
products state that over 25% percent of alerts are left unattended
on a daily basis.

5) Response orchestration beats
automation — While a significant number
of the organizations we polled orchestrate their IR operations from
a centralized interface, only a small portion introduce automation
to their remediation workflows.

6) Organizations have mixed feelings regarding security
outsourcing — While the security skills
gap compels organizations to outsource the more advanced portion of
their security operations, there is still a strong inclination to
keep things in-house, especially in regard to active attack
remediation in their environment.

The State of Breach Protection 2020 survey crowdsources the
wisdom of numerous security professionals and decision-makers,
enabling CISOs to make better informed and data-driven decisions,
by zooming out to see the wide perspective of breach protection’s
best practices and major trends.

Download The State of Breach
Protection 2020 survey report^[3]
here.

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