ThreatQuotient | ThreatQuotient Publishes Research Report: State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021>
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London, UK. â 29th September 2021 â ThreatQuotientâ¢, a leading security operations platform innovator, today released the State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021, new research focused on understanding the importance, challenges and trends facing businesses when it comes to automating their IT security systems. Based on survey results from 250 senior cybersecurity professionals at UK companies employing 2,000+ people from a range of industries, the report determined 98% intend to automate more in the next 12 months, but 41% have a lack of trust in automationâs outcomes. As distributed workforces expand the threat surface, organisations must find ways to automate their security systems to proactively mitigate escalating cyber threats while supporting a growing hybrid work environment. Key findings of the report include: 77% of survey respondents stated IT security automation is important to senior security professionals. Overall intentions to automate were high, with 95% stating that they have automated to some extent, and a trailblazing 40% saying they have automated between 51 and 100% of their processes. According to a third (34%) of survey respondents, the top reason for IT security automation is the need to improve or maintain security standards, followed by the need to improve efficiency and productivity (31%). 92% of organisations have experienced problems/issues when implementing IT security automation. In fact, only 8% said that they had not experienced problems. Technology was cited as the top blocker that is preventing organisations from applying IT security automation (43%), in addition to a lack of skills (45%), a lack of trust in the outcomes (41%) and budget issues (40%). 31% of organisations that have automation capabilities built into technologies such as SIEMs, Endpoint Detection & Response and Security Automation & Orchestration solutions do not trust these to automate much beyond basic tasks such as sending out notifications or running a threat intelligence query. Going forward for IT security automation to be successful, 51% of the survey respondents said that well-defined manual processes were required. Intention to automate threat intelligence was cited as the top use case for applying automation in the future. 50% of respondents are already automating threat intelligence processing. 98% are planning to automate more of their security estate in the next 12 months. Of these, 5% will be applying automation for the first time.
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