Respondent companies varied among corporate organizations with participation from Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 (32%), publicly traded companies (29%), private companies (28%), and government organizations (11%).
Respondents consisted of cyber leaders and practitioners: CISOs (28%), VPs/directors (19%), managers (15%), individual contributors – SOC analysts/incident responders (32%), legal & other roles (6%).
Respondents came from a wide range of industries including participation from Financial Services (25%), Technology (22%) and Services (15%), Government & Education Organizations (11%) and other industries (27%).
Respondent organizations were mostly representative of US organizations (combined 55%), followed by global organizations (28%) and European organizations (11%) and APAC organizations (6%).
Key Findings
94%
of organizations report a lack of standardized processes for cyber investigations.
88%
of security leaders express concerns about operational issues related to lack of skilled staff and high attrition rates.
72%
or respondents admit to having blind spots for non-security data sources.
Key Challenges
Universal Talent Gap
The shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals hinders effective investigations, with cloud security skills and stack visibility being major concerns.
SecOps Tool Complexity
High operational costs of SIEM, SOAR, and EDR solutions, coupled with blind spots in critical SaaS applications and non-security data sources, leave a lot of room for improvement.
Lack of Standardization
Inconsistent collaboration, complex regulatory requirements, and scope creep hamper investigation processes and knowledge retention.
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