When industry analysts survey most security professionals these days, the common consensus is that it’s now harder to manage security operations than ever before. For example, a recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research study showed that some 63 percent of security pros say that the job is tougher today than it was just two years ago.
While there's no doubt that the variety and volume of threats keep on growing by the year, the question is whether or not it’s the complexity of the security problems that have risen precipitously, or whether something else is going on. I'd argue that it's mostly the latter, in that it’s not so much that the complexity has grown tremendously over this time so much as the “awareness” of already latent complexity has become more apparent.
As the breadth of technologies and data available to modern cybersecurity organizations continues to proliferate, security strategists are finally getting enough visibility into their environments to start discovering gaps that have existed all along. But knowing where the deficiencies exist doesn’t always equate to being able to address them. These same security folks are also struggling to wrap their arms around what is possible to achieve by using the array of tools in their arsenals and the vast quantities of information available.
Years ago in the security world, the common mantra was that security organizations “don't know what they don't know” and this was due to deficiencies in monitoring and threat intelligence capabilities. Nowadays the opposite is true. They're flooded with data and they're starting to get a better sense of what they don't fully know or understand about adversarial activities in their environmen ..
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