A Cisco launched its annual report on Cybersecurity, where he defends “security improvement in medium and large enterprises“. As the attack surface increases, defenders must focus on their most important objective: to reduce their opponents' operating space.
The Cisco report goes on to say that adversaries have more tools at their disposal than ever before, as well as the cunning of knowing when to use each one to get the maximum effect. The explosive growth of mobile terminals and online traffic works to your advantage. They have more space to operate and more choices of targets and approaches.
According to Cisco, defenders can use a variety of strategies to address the challenges of an expanding threat landscape. They can purchase the best solutions that contribute separately to provide information and protection. And they can compete for staff in a market where talent is scarce and budgets are tight.
- Only two-thirds of organizations are investigating security alerts. In certain industries (such as health and transportation), this figure is closer to 50%.
- In every company, the violations have led to at least modest security improvements in at least 90% of organizations.
- Cisco has interviewed about 3.000 security leaders in 13 countries and found that in every enterprise, security teams are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of attacks.
Preventing all attacks may not be possible. However, it is possible to minimize the risk and impact of threats by restricting opponents' operating space and thus their ability to compromise assets. One of the measures that can be taken is to simplify the set of security tools by integrating them into an integrated and interconnected security architecture.
