Sophos Finds Most Orgs Find Security Operations Challenging>
Remote Work Solutions Magazine – Bruce Christian
Sophos, a leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, published its The State of Cybersecurity 2023: The Business Impact of Adversaries on Defenders that found that, globally, 93 percent of organizations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging. These include understanding how an attack happened, with 75 percent of respondents stating they have challenges identifying the root cause of an incident. This can make proper remediation difficult, leaving organizations vulnerable to repetitive and/or multiple attacks, by the same or different adversaries, especially since 71 percent of those surveyed also reported challenges with timely remediation.

In addition, 71 percent said they have challenges understanding which signals/alerts to investigate, and the same percentage reported challenges prioritizing investigations.

Additional findings include: 52 percent of organizations surveyed said that cyber threats are too advanced for their organization to deal with on their own 64 percent wish the IT team could spend more time on strategic issues and less time on firefighting, and 55 percent said that the time spent on cyber threats has impacted the IT team’s work on other projects While 94 percent said they are working with external specialists to scale their operations, the majority still remain involved with managing threats rather than taking a fully outsourced approach
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