Security Ops Confidence Levels Drop

By Ericka Chickowski  Posted on 9/12/2014
 
Survey shows most organizations unable to keep up with new and emerging threats from state-sponsored attackers.
 As foreign state-sponsored attackers turn up the heat on corporate targets, security operations staffers are losing confidence in their ability to stave off these threats. New survey results released this week showed that confidence levels among IT security professionals has slipped this year, with fewer than half of them feeling sure they can keep up with new and emerging threats.
Conducted among Black Hat attendees by Lieberman Software, the surveyasked infosec professionals about their organizations' readiness to respond to state-sponsored and other advanced attacks. The study found that 59% of respondents believe their organizations are likely to be the target of a state-sponsored attack sometime in the next six months.
 
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