Old habits die hard: How people process and technology challenges are hurting cybersecurity teams
A white paper by Tenable based on a commissioned study of 825 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in 2023 by Forrester Consulting.
As cybersecurity programs face unprecedented scrutiny by government agencies, insurance companies and investors, many organizations struggle to effectively report and communicate about risk. We set out to understand how people, process and technology challenges hamper risk-reduction practices, and why organizations must shift from reactive to preventative security.
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To learn more about these challenges, gain insights into how the most mature organizations are addressing them and see recommendations for how to overcome these challenges, download the white paper, Old Habits Die Hard: How People, Process and Technology Challenges Are Hurting Cybersecurity Teams.
57%
The average organization preventively defended against 57% of the cyberattacks they encountered in the past two years, leaving them vulnerable to 43% of these attacks — which they were forced to reactively mitigate rather than stop altogether.
53%
The majority of IT and security leaders (53%) cite cloud infrastructure — specifically public, multi-cloud and/or hybrid cloud — as the greatest source of exposure in their organization
58%
Nearly six in 10 cybersecurity and IT pros (58%) say the security team is too busy fighting critical incidents to take a preventive approach to reducing their organization’s exposure
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Three out of four of the most frequently used cybersecurity tools are reactive, not preventive, making proactive cybersecurity practices difficult to execute
74%
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of security and IT leaders believe their organization would be more successful at defending against cyberattacks if it devoted more resources to preventive cybersecurity
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