Infographic What’s Threatening IT Security and What are People Doing About it?
By Insight Editor / 3 Sep 2021
In this security infographic by HPE, you’ll discover actual insights from a Ponemon Institute survey of over 4,150 IT professionals about their greatest security issues. Topics covered include:
- Dynamically changing attack surfaces
- Perceived value of security investments
- Protecting the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Integration and complexity of security solutions
- Visibility and control of users and more
You’ll also learn how threats can slow innovation and ways HPE security solutions remediate risks with simplicity.
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WHAT’S THREATENING IT SECURITY AND WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING ABOUT IT?
The Ponemon Institute surveyed 4,150+ IT security leaders and practitioners and here’s a glimpse at what they found.
Complexity causes risks to security
- 60% struggle to protect complex and dynamically changing attack surfaces
- 72% are not getting full value from their security investments
- 58% say lack of integration and complexity of security solutions creates gaps in defenses
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IT security gaps cause delays in detecting attacks on the inside
- 68% lack visibility and control of users
- 72% think legacy IoT is challenging to secure
- Less than 29% are highly effective in closing the gaps
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The greatest threats are attacks on the inside
- 61% believe attacks inside the network will do the greatest damage
- 65% lack confidence they can detect an inside attack before breakout occurs
- 35% believe sophisticated inside attacks have evaded traditional security defenses
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Effective security reduces risks during digital transformation
- 77% of Security experts are involved in digital transformation projects
- 59% believe security technologies are important to successful digital transformation
- 59% are significantly challenged to limit users from accessing unauthorized data and apps
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AI is helping to solve security challenges
- 71% believe AI reduces time and effort to detect attacks
- 61% believe AI will reduce false alarms that must require investigation
- 61% think AI will find attacks before they do damage
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All data sourced from “The HPE-sponsored 2020 Global Study on Closing the IT Security Gaps”, by the Ponemon Institute.
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