We Have the Capabilities to Persevere and Reach the Next Level of Security Maturity
For obvious reasons, perseverance has been the theme for 2020 and will continue well into 2021. In the security industry it has been our watchword for decades, so in a sense this is nothing new. But how we have persevered has evolved through the years, and now we have the capacity to reach new levels of security operations maturity.
The early days of cybersecurity played out largely as a game of cat and mouse. As more effective security defenses emerged, attackers responded with innovative techniques aimed at evading these evolving defenses. When it became obvious that it was no longer a matter of if, but when and how we’d be attacked, defenders persevered by innovating technologies and services aimed at detection and response – from endpoint and network solutions to phishing detection, threat intelligence management and sandboxing solutions as well as managed detection and response services.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen a movement towards the construct of a single security architecture to accelerate detection and response. In 2016, ESG started using the term Security Operations and Analytics Platform Architecture (SOAPA) and it is looking more and more relevant. Product categories like SOAR solutions have steadily gained traction in real-world use. And in 2020, Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions started being touted as the number one trend CISOs should understand to increase detection accuracy and improve security operations efficiency and productivity.
So, how should we continue to push our security operations forward in 2021 and beyond?
At each point in our evolution of maturity, ..
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