Only 8% IT Managers in India Seemingly Have Skilled Resources To Investigate And Respond To Cybersecurity Threats - Survey

A new IT security survey called “ Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity”, has revealed that IT manrs are inundated with cyberattacks coming from all directions and are struggling to keep up due to a lack of security expertise, budget and up to date techlogy. This survey, by cybersecurity firm Sophos, polled 3,100 IT decision makers from mid-sized businesses in US, Cana, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, India, and South Africa. 

Lack of Security Expertise, Budget and Up to Date Techlogy 

According to this Sophos survey, Indian IT manrs reported that 32% of ir team’s time is spent managing security, on aver. Yet, only 8% believe y have strong team in place to detect, investigate and respond to security incidents. 

Regarding budget, 81% of respondents stated that ir organization’s cybersecurity budget (including people and techlogy) is below what it needs to be. Having current techlogy in place is ar problem, with 89% agreeing that staying up to date with cybersecurity techlogy is a challenge for ir organization. This lack of security expertise, budget and up to date techlogy indicates IT manrs are struggling to respond to cyberattacks inste of proactively planning and handling what’s coming next. 

“Staying on top of where threats are coming from takes dedicated expertise, but IT manrs often have a hard time finding right talent or don’t have a proper security system in place that allows m to respond quickly and efficiently to attacks,” said Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist, Sophos.  

“If organizations can opt a security system with products that work toger to share intelligence and automatically react to threats, n IT security teams can avoid trap of perpetually catching up after yesterday’s attack and better defend against what’s going to happen tomorrow. Having a security ‘system’ in place helps alleviate security skills gap IT manrs are facing.” 

With cyber threats coming from supply chain attacks, phishing emails, software exploits, vulnerabilities, insecure wireless networks, and much more, businesses need a security solution that helps m eliminate gaps and better identify previously unseen threats.  

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