We live in an era where cyberattacks come part and parcel with doing business. Companies are routinely hit with attacks big and small, and their customers are feeling the impact as well. While your company may not have suffered a major security attack yet, that doesn’t mean it won’t. Cyberattacks have never been more prevalent or dangerous — and they could end up costing your company millions of dollars and potentially scores of customers.
These trends are making the IT departments that are tasked with endpoint defense, investigation, and remediation filled with dread, and they are looking for ways to get ahead of the problem. Based on conversations I’ve had with customers and partners over the past several months as well as talks taking place at a slew of industry events, here are some of the things I’ve noticed about the state of enterprise security today — the good, the bad, and the ugly.