ThreatQuotient™, 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 automation’s outcomes.
As distributed workforces expand the threat surface, organizations must find ways to automate their security systems to proactively mitigate escalating cyber threats while supporting a growing hybrid work environment. The State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021 report surveyed five key vertical markets: Central Government, Defense, Critical National Infrastructure – Energy and Utilities, Retail and Financial Services. The research examines what IT security use cases or processes organizations have already automated and what they are planning to automate, as well as budgets, skills, resources, issues around trust, and assesses the overall outlook for IT security automation.
Key findings of the report include:
Recognized importance of IT security automation
Challenges around automation
Future expectations and vision for the success for IT security automation
“To gain a clearer picture of the state of IT security automation and adoption, and understand what is either accelerating or holding UK PLC back, we commissioned this survey to understand how far down the road senior cybersecurity professionals are with their IT security automation initiatives,” said Anthony Perridge, Vice President, International, ThreatQuotient. “There are several barriers preventing organizations from maximizing the benefit of automation, such as budget, prioritization issues, talent gaps, technology, trust concerns and more. At ThreatQuotient, we know that data driven automation can enable security operations teams to reliably trust the data and be confident in their decisions, which for many security professionals will be absolutely groundbreaking as they look to automate more use cases.”
To download the full State of Cyber Security Automation Adoption in 2021 report, including more detail on the survey questions and recommendations forsenior security professionals tofollow if they are looking to automate their security processes, click here.
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Report Methodology
Leading security operations platform innovator, ThreatQuotient, commissioned a survey, undertaken by independent research organization, Opinion Matters, in May 2021. 250 UK senior cybersecurity professionals from companies employing 2000+ people from a range of industries took part including: Central Government, Defense, Critical National Infrastructure – Energy and Utilities, Retail, and the Financial Services Sector.