{"id":21865,"date":"2022-12-02T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=21865"},"modified":"2023-05-25T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:40:22","slug":"research-reveals-australian-and-new-zealand-cybersecurity-strategies-have-complexity-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2022\/12\/02\/research-reveals-australian-and-new-zealand-cybersecurity-strategies-have-complexity-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Research reveals Australian and New Zealand cybersecurity strategies have complexity issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Research released by Fastly, a global edge cloud platform, titled Fighting Fire With Fire<\/a>, finds that over three-quarters (78%) of Australian and New Zealand organizations are increasing their cybersecurity spending to protect themselves against future risks with AU$95,000 spent annually just on web applications and API security control and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, despite this increased budget with 59% agreeing that their organization\u2019s allocated budget appropriately addresses cybersecurity risk, IT leaders are investing poorly. The result of this is that only 60% of cybersecurity tools are fully active or deployed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, due to a scattergun approach to cybersecurity implementation, 38% of these tools overlap, protecting organizations against the same threats and when these tools do run, they often suffer from too many false positives. For example, 42% of alerts detected by organizations\u2019 WAFs are false positives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of this research, IT leaders also predicted the biggest threats to their organization in the next 12 months, with 37% highlighting data breaches and data loss, 33% phishing and 27% malware as their key areas for concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although 76% of organizations are confident in their organization\u2019s ability to protect itself against the current cybersecurity threat landscape, the other primary area of concern for these organizations is securing remote workers. Eighty-five percent of IT leaders surveyed expressed concern about the effect of adopting a remote work culture since the pandemic on their cybersecurity strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, over half (53%) predict that \u2018cyberattacks on remote workers\u2019 will drive cybersecurity threats over the next 12 months. As a result, 49% say improving cybersecurity skills through training and or talent acquisition is a security priority over the next year while another top priority includes making cybersecurity more accessible to meet usability requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, more than two-thirds (67%) of organizations are less confident in their ability to hire talent sufficiently qualified to keep up with changing security technologies. Just under half of organizations (48%) feel there is a lack of experience with relevant security technologies among the current talent pool when it comes to cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full report contains the five fundamental steps organizations can take to improve their cybersecurity posture, removing unnecessary complexity in the process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research released by Fastly, a global edge cloud platform, titled Fighting Fire With Fire, finds that over three-quarters (78%) of Australian and New Zealand organizations are increasing their cybersecurity spending to protect themselves against future risks with AU$95,000 spent annually just on web applications and API security control and tools. However, despite this increased budget with 59% […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":21866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,12,3559,53,44,54],"tags":[76,79,174,1568,1914,4039,77],"class_list":["post-21865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apac","category-cloud","category-cybersecurity","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-australia","tag-cloud","tag-cybersecurity","tag-edge","tag-fastly","tag-fighting-fire-with-fire","tag-new-zealand"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22071,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions\/22071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}