Security and risk management leaders must address eight top trends to enable rapid reinvention in their organization, as COVID-19 accelerates digital business transformation and challenges traditional cybersecurity practices, according to Gartner, Inc.
In the opening keynote at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit taking place virtually in APAC today, Peter Firstbrook, research vice president at Gartner, said these trends are a response to persistent global challenges that all organizations are experiencing.
“The first challenge is a skills gap. 80% of organizations tell us they have a hard time finding and hiring security professionals and 71% say it’s impacting their ability to deliver security projects within their organizations,” said Mr. Firstbrook.
Other key challenges facing security and risk leaders in 2021 include the complex geopolitical situation and increasing global regulations, the migration of workspaces and workloads off traditional networks, an explosion in endpoint diversity and locations and a shifting attack environment, in particular, the challenges of ransomware and business email compromise.
The following top trends represent…
