Top 5 Information Technology Challenges

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No organization is immune to all sophisticated attacks. For example, any organization can be affected by zero-day vulnerabilities or complex non-standard tools. To successfully repel an advanced attack and minimize the negative consequences, prepare today for the challenges your cybersecurity team may face in the future.

Predicting a specific attack is, of course, impossible, so our colleagues decided to study the experiences of other companies, interviewing representatives from several corporations for our IT Security Economics 2021 report. What the interviewees had in common was that they had all suffered complex cyber incidents.

Here are the top 5 concerns reported by respondents:

1. Insufficient visibility of infrastructure
Logically, without full visibility into the infrastructure, finding and albania whatsapp list threats is nearly impossible. Even very complex incidents can go unnoticed by cyber defenders for some time. Furthermore, responding without a complete understanding of the situation can make matters worse.

Countermeasures. When it comes to providing infrastructure visibility, consider Endpoint Detection and Response class solutions.

2. Lack of coordination
Disparate teams jumping into action instead of coordinating first tends to compound the damage and complicate the investigation. Teams can also inadvertently hinder each other (for example, information security may try to isolate the infected server from the network while IT is struggling to keep it available).

Countermeasures. Develop a contingency plan in advance and appoint someone responsible for its implementation.

3. Lack of qualified professionals
The market continues to suffer from a shortage of information security specialists, so it is not surprising that companies cite the lack of properly trained personnel capable of identifying threats and responding to critical incidents as a major challenge.

Countermeasures. If there is no in-house expertise, bring in external teams to perform incident response, ongoing monitoring, and threat prevention.

4. Failure to identify real threats given multiple signals
It’s bad if your security system fails to detect dangerous symptoms in your infrastructure, but it’s not much better if it detects “too many.” Alerts about real threats can get lost in thousands of different incidents, each wasting analysts’ attention and other valuable resources. In a complex network, this is a very real problem.

Countermeasures. Use a comprehensive cybersecurity framework with integrated technologies that help prioritize truly critical incidents.

5. Insufficient visibility into malicious events or behaviors
Cybercriminals are constantly developing new attack methods, tools, and exploits. Without new information about cyber threats, security solutions cannot respond to the latest attacks or recognize intruders on the corporate network.

Countermeasures. Provide your security solutions and SIEM systems (if any) with essential and up-to-date threat information.