Endace, a specialist in high-speed network recording, traffic playback and analytics hosting, today announced the results of its latest research study, Challenges of Managing and Securing the Network 2019, conducted by independent, US-based research company, Virtual Intelligence Briefing (VIB).
The study surveyed senior executives and technical staff at more than 250 large enterprises globally to understand the challenges that these organizations face in protecting their networks from cyberattack and performance issues.
Organizations from a range of industry verticals including Finance, Healthcare, Insurance and Retail participated in the study, which found that one of the biggest challenges for all organizations was a lack of agility, making it difficult for their teams to investigate and respond quickly and accurately to security threats or outages.
“96% of respondents indicated they have significant on-premise infrastructure to defend. Clearly, they have data governance and sovereignty responsibilities they can’t outsource,” said Stuart Wilson, CEO, Endace.
Respondents cited the need for greater visibility into network activity as one of their top issues: almost 90% of respondents rated having ‘insufficient visibility into network activity to be certain about what is happening’ as a significant challenge for their organization.
- Some of the key issues reported were:
- 81% of respondents reported not having enough monitoring tools in the right places on the network.
- 80% rated ‘alert fatigue’ as a significant concern.
- 76% reported that ‘tool fatigue’ is a significant issue.
- 91% indicated ‘integrating solutions to streamline processes, increase productivity and reduce complexity’ is a significant challenge.
- 90% reported slow, complex CAPEX purchasing cycles are reducing their flexibility in defending their organizations’ networks.
Tom Riddle, Director, Marketing & Research Solutions at Virtual Intelligence Briefing, said: “These research findings show that IT and security staff still lack adequate tools, efficient workflows and the agility necessary to investigate and respond to threats or issues quickly and accurately enough to keep their infrastructure safe and trouble-free.”
“This research shows organizations urgently need to streamline their approach to security to enable rapid and cost-effective deployment. Moving to a common, open analytics platform to host a range of security solutions is a key tactic for better security,” said Cary Wright, VP Product Management at Endace.
For a complete copy of the report, or to download a summary of the findings, click here endace.com/cmsn-report-2019.
About Endace
Endace’s multifunctional Analytics Platform can host 3rd-party network analytics applications while simultaneously recording a 100% accurate Network History, enabling fast, accurate detection, investigation and analysis of network security and performance issues.
The platform enables agile deployment of analytics functions and dramatically reduces OPEX and CAPEX costs by consolidating datacenter hardware. Hosted applications can analyze live or historical traffic. Global customers include banks, healthcare, telcos, broadcasters, retailers, web giants, governments and military.
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About Virtual Intelligence Briefing
ViB is an interactive on-line news community focused on emerging through rapid growth technologies. ViB’s community is comprised of more than 1.2M IT practitioners and decision makers who share their opinions by engaging in sophisticated surveys across a range of IT solution areas.
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