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Overcoming
barriers
to achieve
proactive
cybersecurity
Nik Whitfield, CEO, Panaseer, talks to Intelligent
CISO about why it’s time for organisations to take a
proactive approach to security to stand a chance of
staying ahead of modern cyberthreats.
T
he last decade
has seen a
huge surge in
cyberdefence
technologies. Like
an arms race, with
every increasing
or new threat, organisations layer on a
new solution or product hoping to create
a blanket of cover thick enough to keep
the bad guys out.
They then sit, wait, monitor, hope to detect
something bad as quickly as possible
and finally react when a discovery of
something happens. However, collectively
we have now reached a point where this
just doesn’t work as it is no longer an
effective approach.
It is an outdated equation where you will
never have enough resources to respond
to the ever-evolving intelligent adversary
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Nik Whitfield,
CEO, Panaseer
and with most businesses taking, on
average, about 197 days to detect a
breach on their network, the analogy of
‘shutting the gate after the horse has
bolted’ springs to mind. market is expected to grow from
US$20.66 billion in 2018 to US$41.77
billion by 2023, at a Compound Annual
Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.1% during the
forecast period.
If you are to stand a genuine chance
of combating threats successfully and
addressing the myriad of compliance
issues facing all industries, you need
a different playbook. With limited
budgets and resources, and demands
for insight and proof, organisations
must move from firefighting i.e. monitor,
detect, react to fireproofing i.e. prepare
and protect, developing a robust,
proactive cyberstrategy. Enabling your strategy to evolve isn’t
easy, which is why we commissioned
analysis from 451 Research to provide
insight into the industry opportunity
for proactive security, as well as the
key hurdles that organisations need to
overcome to successfully shift their focus.
Industry experts agree – earlier this year
Markets and Markets issued a report
that outlined that the proactive security
market is undergoing tremendous
growth. Its report outlined that the
A profusion of tools and data
The profusion of tools and data with their
operational silos obscures the true state
of the organisation’s security posture.
Gathering asset data from across the
organisation is deceptively difficult.
The problem starts with the myriad of
operational silos that have to be crossed –
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