A Twitter poll found that 35 per cent of cyber security professionals cited employee burnout as the most concerning issue among increasing cyber threats.
This comes as cyber security teams are put under pressure to tackle the complexity of the hybrid enterprise and the necessity to protect corporate data wherever it sits. A majority, near 63pc of respondents highlighted security of data as being most important to their organisation when establishing the need for effective cyber security services. Of lesser concern were securing reputation (19pc), productivity (12pc) and saving money (7pc).
The poll was for Integrity360, a UK and Ireland cyber security services firm. The poll in the first week of December, comprising of four question and answer options and drawing 1483 responses, found that organisations are looking to implement critical security measures to ensure greater threat detection and response in 2023, with identity and access management (29.9pc) and cloud security (29.7pc) on top of the agenda, followed by network (19.6pc) and endpoint security (20.6pc).
Richard Ford, CTO at Integrity360, pictured, said: “Analysts are facing severe burnout from alert fatigue and Security Operations Centre (SOC) overwhelm, and organisations are lacking the experience, skills and bandwidth needed to detect and manage security incidents and data – quickly and effectively. The integration of Vectra into our MDR service is a game changer. It allows us to provide a full end to end capability to monitor and proactively hunt threats across the entire hybrid enterprise, delivering advanced Threat Detection and Threat Response services and relieving SOC teams overwhelmed by noise.”
When questioned on the best approaches to future-proof the security of their organisation, about half, 52pc of respondents pointed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as the best means.
About the firm
It acquired UK cyber provider Caretower in February 2022, and now operates with over 300 employees including over 200 cyber security engineers, analysts and consultants. Visit www.integrity360.com.
