Anthony Perridge, Vice President, International, ThreatQuotient
ThreatQuitent’s new research among the 250 senior cybersecurity professionals at UK companies with 2,000+ people from a range of industries reveals 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.
Anthony Perridge, Vice President, International, ThreatQuotient “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,” “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.”
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.
