Cisco has published its fifth annual 2019 CISO Benchmark Study a comprehensive survey of more than 3000 security leaders across 18 countries.
This year’s results show security professionals are placing a higher priority on vendor consolidation, collaboration between networking and security teams, and security awareness exercises to strengthen an organisations security posture and reduce the risk of breaches.
To further address complexity challenges, many CISOs are increasingly confident that migrating to the cloud will improve protection efforts, while apparently decreasing reliance on less proven technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).
Complex security environments made up of solutions from 10 or more security vendors could be hampering security professional’s visibility across their environments.
65% of respondents do not find it easy to determine the scope of a compromise, contain it and remediate from exploits.
The unknown threats that exist outside the enterprise in the form of users, data, devices, and apps is also a top concern for CISOs.
To help address these challenges, and better protect their organisations, of those surveyed:
- 44%…
