Cyber security confidence undermined by contradicting investments

CAMPBELL, USA: ForeScout Technologies, Inc., the pervasive network security solutions provider for Global 2000 enterprises and government organisations,  announced that it has published its 2014 Cyber Defence Maturity Report

 

Key findings of the report revealed that more than 96 percent of organisations experienced a significant IT security incident in the past year. The majority of IT organisations are aware that some of their security measures are immature or ineffective, but only 33 percent have high confidence that their organisations will improve their less mature security controls.

Also evident in the results, increasing operational complexity and threat landscape have affected security capacity as more than 43 percent perceive problem prevention, identification, diagnosis and remediation are more challenging than two years ago. On aggregate, one in six organisations had five or more significant security incidents in the past 12 months.

While confidence in IT security management appears optimistic, overall findings showed a contradiction in efficacy and likely investment compared to where incidents have been most impactful.