The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report (CDR) released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them.
The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security posture, operating budget, product investments, and best practices against peers in their industry and geographic region. As a survey of 1,200 security leaders and IT decision-makers from the private and public sectors across the globe, it is truly a comprehensive look at the security market.
Key Insight
Among the report’s key insights this year: a trend toward unified security tools and monitoring. Eighty percent of security leaders agreed that managing the entire app security stack (DDoS protection, WAF, RASP, and API security) from one platform would reduce complexity and save time. According to the report:
“We believe that this near-unanimity comes from respondents’ knowledge of the benefits of a single platform for monitoring and management, such as:– Easier management, since they can use one console instead of many.– Better analysis and decision making, since data collected from multiple tools can be correlated and analyzed together.”
The 2020 Threat Landscape
Cyberattacks are not only up since last year, they have reached record levels. For the first time in the survey’s history, four out of five organizations (81 percent) experienced at least one successful cyberattack, up from 78 percent in 2019. This is a trend that Imperva Research Labs expects to escalate due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. See our blog on the initial security implications of the pandemic that we’re monitoring and how they’re affecting businesses.
Notable Findings
The 2020 CDR yields dozens of ..
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