With the economic impact of COVID-19 increasingly looking like an imminent recession and the way we do work altered perhaps forever, CIOs and CISOs will most likely be managing reduced budgets and a vastly different threat landscape. With the average cost of a breach continuing to skyrocket, the already slim margin for error will shrink even further.

Automation can both mitigate inherent risks incurred from rapid ecosystem shifts as well as help IT teams re-evaluate long term spending once operations return to normalcy.