What would your security team do with an extra 62 days?
According to a recent study by IDC, that’s the amount of time the average-sized security team can expect to regain by addressing a lack of security management integration. With just 12 percent of respondents currently using an end-to-end management suite—and with 14 percent completely reliant on ad hoc “solutions”—there’s plenty of room for improvement.
The study, “Security Integration and Automation: The Keys to Unlocking Security Value,” found that businesses who addressed lack of integration saw three main business benefits: Efficiency, Cost Reduction and Improved Staff Retention. If your business chose to do the same, which goal would your team spend its 62 days working toward?
Increasing Efficiency
When asked what concerns limited their ability to improve IT security capabilities, 44% reported security was too busy with routine operations, and 37 percent cited high levels of demand for new business services.
If these teams had an extra 62 days, it could afford them the free time needed to improve their security posture—and one place that a lot of companies currently fall short is in the cloud, where a majority of new business services live.
According to IDC, enterprises are expected to spend $1.7 trillion on digital transformation by the end of this year. And our 2019 Cloud Adoption and Risk Report found that 83% of respondents worldwide stored sensitive data in the cloud. The number of files on the cloud that are eventually shared has risen to nearly ha ..
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