Businesses use 90 security tools on average.
More than three-quarters of security leaders believe their attack surface has widened by 77% in the past two year, while time to detect has worsened.
A survey of 700 security teams by Red Canary found 87 percent of organisations experienced security incidents that they were unable to detect and neutralise, leading to data compromise, outages, fines, audit failures, and reputational damage.
Also, 73 percent say their attack surface has widened by 77 percent in the past two years, and the majority of those surveyed admit to using over 90 security tools, yet 60 percent report there is “too much noise and too many security alerts” to manage effectively.
Brian Beyer, CEO and Co-founder of Red Canary, said the scale of risks facing the business today is unprecedented, and traditional security approaches are failing
"For too long, companies have tried to tackle this escalating problem by throwing more money, tools, and people at it,” he said. “With technology advancing at breakneck speed for both defenders and adversaries, cybersecurity teams are drowning, unable to keep up.
"It’s time for a new approach—one that involves strategic partnership and expert detection engineering to truly alleviate the burden and build defenses that actually work."
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
