Outdated security no match for modern threats

Outdated security no match for modern threats

A new report from Vectra highlights how organisations are continuing to fail by tackling complex, modern cyber threats using outdated methods.

Today’s threat landscape presents significant change, while legacy thinking has security leaders and businesses investing in solutions that rely on outmoded approaches, according to Vectra AI’s Security Leaders Research Report. The authors say findings suggest the debate around detection vs prevention solutions is coming to a head.


The report — which is part of a larger global study of 1800 security decision-makers conducted by Sapio Research — shares insights from 200 IT security decision-makers working at organisations with more than 500 employees across ANZ. Of those surveyed, 85% think traditional approaches don’t protect against modern threats and that ‘the game needs to be changed’ when it comes to dealing with attackers, which is in line with 89% globally.


The report reveals how security leaders believe legacy tooling and thinking is impeding organisations from protecting against modern threats, and that a new approach is needed to detect and stop attacks that leapfrog current legacy tools.


Key findings include:


  • The majority (85% ANZ, 83% global) agreed that traditional approaches don’t protect against modern threats, and only 40% were confident their security tools would protect against sophisticated attacks.

  • More than half of security decision-makers (58% ANZ, 79% global) reported they purchased a security solution that has failed on at least one occasion.

  • More than half (60% ANZ, 64% global) are worried their tools have missed something and 57% feel it’s possible or likely they’ve been breached while being unaware of it happening.

  • 86% believe cybersecurity decisions made by the C-Suite are influenced by relationships with legacy vendors (83% global) and 45% (54% global) said they are a decade behind on security discussi ..

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