Effective enterprise cybersecurity has become even more important as organizations extend their efforts in digital transformation, cloud computing, hybrid work and AI technologies. Those trends make IT networks and systems — and the data that ceaselessly moves through them — more vulnerable to cybersecurity threats that can harm business operations, inflict substantial costs, knock a company out of compliance with regulations and damage its reputation.
Cybercriminals increasingly target systems and applications that aren’t properly protected. As enterprise cybersecurity staffers scramble to shore up vulnerabilities, hackers and attackers seek out those same weak points. It can sometimes feel like a race, and security groups often don’t feel like they are winning.
In an annual survey of cybersecurity professionals conducted in 2024 by IT professional association ISACA, only 40% said they were completely or very confident in their cybersecurity team’s ability to detect and respond to threats; that’s down slightly from the prior year, when 42% expressed those same degrees of confidence.
Security perennially sits at the top of IT spending priorities for most organizations….
