Organizations need to shift strategies, adopt a proactive approach to cybersecurity

From helpnetsecurity.com

The cybersecurity market has reached a point whereby organisations need to shift their strategies and have a new, proactive approach to their cybersecurity, according to a report by 451 Research.

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Hurdles that organizations need to overcome to successfully shift their strategies

These were identified as:

  • A profusion of tools and data that complicates – and too often, frustrates – an effective strategy
  • An over-reliance on people to resolve security issues, and the unsustainable business model it represents
  • A “one size fits all” mentality that leads to tools and processes insufficiently flexible to serve real-world people and processes – and too often leaves security poorly aligned with business realties
  • Lopsided investments in reactive measures that too often result from these failures.

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