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Cisco 2020 CISO Benchmark Report Shows Increased Investment in Cloud Security and Automation Technologies to Combat Complexity
Executive leadership still considers security a high priority along with other indicators such as clarification of roles, establishing clear metrics, and
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[{"type":"text","content":"Executive leadership still considers security a high priority along with other indicators such as clarification of roles, establishing clear metrics, and cyber risk assessments. Report shows increased challenges when managing and securing multi-vendor environments, cloud infrastructure, mobile devices, and unpatched vulnerabilities. 86 percent of security professionals say utilizing cloud security has increased visibility into their networks. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference 2020 — Today, Cisco published its sixth annual CISO Benchmark Report surveying the security posture of 2,800 security professionals from 13 countries around the globe. The report provides 20 cybersecurity considerations for 2020 – gleaned from data analysis of survey results and a panel of Advisory CISOs. \n\n \n \n\n \nComplexity Continues to be Cybersecurity's Worst Enemy Digital transformation continues to present itself as an opportunity for IT and security leaders to innovate and gain competitive advantage. But it also carries a tsunami of infrastructure change, which often creates new challenges for security professionals with defeating unknown sophisticated threats looming as a top concern.\nIn today's security landscape, the average company uses more than 20 security technologies. While vendor consolidation is steadily increasing with 86 percent of organizations using between 1 and 20 vendors, more than 20 percent feel that managing a multi-vendor environment is very challenging, which has increased by 8 percent since 2017. Other notable findings:\nForty-two percent of respondents are suffering from cybersecurity fatigue, defined as virtually giving up on proactively defending against malicious actors. Over 96 percent of fatigue sufferers saying that managing a multi-vendor environment is challenging, complexity being the main causes of burnout. To combat complexity, security professionals are increasing investments in automation to simplify and speed up response times in their security ecosystems; using cloud security to improve visibility into their networks; and sustaining collaboration between networking, endpoint and security teams. \n\"As organizations increasingly embrace digital transformation, CISOs are placing higher priority in adopting new security technologies to reduce exposure against malicious actors and thr...