After a week away from all things cybersecurity, I’m back at work and focusing on security analytics and operations again. Alarmingly, most organizations readily admit to problems in this area. For example, a recent ESG research survey of 412 cybersecurity and IT professionals identified some of the biggest security analytics and operations challenges. Some of the survey results:
30% of respondents say their biggest cybersecurity operations challenge is the total cost of operations (TCO). What does this mean? Based upon my qualitative interviews with CISOs as part of this project, many organizations are spending lots of money on security operations but attaining marginal results.