Given that digital transformation is driving organizations to seek zero downtime as well as prioritize customer and employee experience, uptime has become a priority. Thus, proactive planning for resilience is key.
Unfortunately, in the 451 Research survey, only a quarter of the participants “identified that they have a strategy for the hybrid environments” they are operating. What’s more, less than 30% feel they are well prepared to recover. This vulnerability is made worse by organizational silos (that is, separate SecRes, DR, and BC units) and a profusion of cybersecurity point solutions. By one estimate, a typical enterprise with 10,000 employees will use more than 70 tools to manage cyber resilience.
“That gets very complex and difficult to manage,” says Weston. “You have all these point solutions that are deep and narrow to solve a tactical problem, but none of them are really integrated. It’s difficult to have a strategy around 70 tools.”
Consolidating point solutions is an admirable goal and may happen, Weston says, “but if you can drive some integration across point solutions or services, the 70-tools problem becomes a little bit easier to manage.”
Add to organizational silos and point solutions the well-documented skills gap for IT talent. According to a recent report from Gartner, businesses think that that talent shortage is the biggest barrier to the adoption of new technologies.
The talent gap is particularly dire in the case of cybersecurity positions. By one estimate, there are more than three million unfilled cybersecurity positions globally.
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