Intelligent CISO Issue 23 | Page 16

latest intelligence AI-DRIVEN EDR THE CURRENT AND FUTURE PATH FOR MORE INTELLIGENT DETECTION AND RESPONSE T The State of Endpoint Insecurity PRESENTED BY DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPERS AT: WWW.INTELLIGENTCISO.COM/ WHITEPAPERS 16 The security professional’s job has become an endless game of cat-and- mouse, continually pursuing invisible attackers that can out-think, out-run, and outsmart most security systems. No matter how efficient and nimble the professional, the attackers are fast, too. And getting faster every day. As a result, endpoints remain vulnerable. It’s not a matter of simply adding additional security personnel. Industry- wide, the IT professional is a scarce commodity with demand far outpacing supply. By 2022, there will be a shortage of 1.8 million IT workers in the United States, leaving companies even more short-handed to perform day-to- day tasks, much less those that are critical for security. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by ESG, the top two weaknesses of endpoint security staff were the “ability to investigate a cybersecurity incident involving an endpoint to determine root cause and the attack chain,” and “monitoring endpoint status to attain a real-time or near real-time inventory of endpoints on the network.” Even for organizations with ample IT staff, endpoint security stack complexity is making their job inefficient and unproductive. The average organization maintains seven different software agents installed on endpoints. u Issue 23 | www.intelligentciso.com