45% of cybersecurity and networking professionals feel threat detection and response workloads have increased – 40% citing more resources in the cloud, and 36% more devices on the network 37% believe sophistication of threats has increased making it difficult for analysts to spot legitimate attacks 69% agree that the lag between exploitation and detection gives attackers too much time to breach a network – with 29% also citing communication issues between SOC and other IT teams 23% believe SOC analysts do not have the right level of skills, and 18% believe they’re understaffed – suggesting security analysts are not equipped to deal with the scale of cyberattacks they face 60% of SMBs feel threat detection and response is now harder – showing smaller organizations are struggling to keep pace with the evolving cybercrime landscape. “Organizations face a barrage of threats on all fronts – in their network, cloud and IT environments – while cybercriminals use techniques like encryption to breach firms undetected.

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