Optimize Security with Five Key Practices
Discover five actionable, data-backed practices that can boost your security.
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What's new in volume 2
For this second edition of our Security Outcomes Study, we conducted an independent, double-blind survey of over 5100 IT professionals in 27 countries. We asked all respondents about their approaches to the five key drivers of cybersecurity program success, uncovered through extensive prior research.
Top 5 cybersecurity practices
According to our research, the five key drivers of cybersecurity program success are:
Be proactive about technology refreshes
Use well-integrated technologies
Respond quickly to incidents
Recover promptly from disasters
Detect threats early and accurately
Learn from your peers
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Key findings from the report
Did you know integrated security technologies are seven times more likely to achieve high levels of process automation? In other key findings:
2X
Internal detection and response teams are twice as quick to respond compared to outsourced teams (six days versus 13 days).
40%
Organizations with well-integrated functions for identifying assets and risks are nearly 40 percent stronger at threat detection and response.
2X
Companies are two times more likely to achieve business continuity by routinely employing chaos engineering.
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