The shift to digital-first business has led cybercriminals to take advantage of new vulnerabilities and gaps in security. As cyberattack attempts continue to increase, businesses need to adapt — and gaining a better understanding of cybersecurity is the first step.
In our digitally connected world, it’s simply not enough for cybersecurity professionals to depend on technical knowledge of cyberthreats alone. You also need to understand how cybersecurity can operate as a collective of resources — both human and technical — within the larger context of your organization.
Top trends from industry experts
Secureworks recently asked top industry experts for predictions into what cybersecurity may look like in 2022 — and what their projections mean for protecting your business.
These expert insights include:
- XDR takes center stage: “In 2022, XDR software sales will increase, taking security budget from SIEM, endpoint and SOAR budgets,” says Steve Fulton, chief product officer at Secureworks.
- Increased cybersecurity visibility in the c-suite: According to Chief Information Officer and Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford of AVOA, “Historically, cybersecurity has not been a normalized subject of discussion. Moving forward, I expect cybersecurity to become a regular topic across the c-suite and during discussions about business operations and customer engagement."
- Integration and consolidation are key: ”With the shortages of security experts still rising, organizations will continue to look to consolidate vendors. Organizations want comprehensive managed detection and response solutions that include both technology and services to meet their needs with the highest ROI possible," says Kyle Falkenhagen, Secureworks vice president of product.
- The cyber-skills gap will grow wider in 2022: Per Lisa Washburn, senior director of project management at Secureworks, ”Continued cyberattacks reaching further down-market into targets of opportunity — of all sizes and across every industry — will exacerbate the already yawning cyber-skills gap. This will lead to increased recruitment and turnover in the ranks of security defenders as scarce talent is sought out in the marketplace by an increasing number of buyers across all sectors."
- The race to secure a distributed workforce intensifies: “As the need for remote and hybrid ways of working continues, challenges in securing work from home and remote work sites will grow,” according to Shahid Shah, co-founder of Citus Heatlh.
XDR adoption is a top cybersecurity initiative for 2022.
As the takeaways above show, a conceptual shift from cybersecurity to cyber resilience is necessary to keep up with a changing landscape, and today’s most dangerous cyberthreats need robust security solutions.
That’s why Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is taking center stage as a new horizon in protection. According to Forrester Research, XDR unifies security-relevant endpoint detections with telemetry from security and business tools such as network analysis and visibility (NAV), email security, identity and access management, cloud security, and more. It is a cloud-native platform built on big data infrastructure to provide security teams with flexibility, scalability, and opportunities for automation.
Essential XDR benefits include:
- Enhanced protection, detection and response capabilities
- Improved productivity of operational security personnel
- Lower total cost of ownership
Secureworks experts predicts that in in 2022, XDR software sales will increase, taking security budget from SIEM, endpoint and SOAR budgets.
Built by security experts, for security experts, Secureworks provides complete cybersecurity solutions featuring the Taegis cloud-native security operations and analytics platform, plus derivative SaaS XDR, ManagedXDR and VDR offerings, supported by Secureworks professional services.
Increased cybersecurity visibility in the c-suite
There’s a wide gulf between acknowledging the possibility of a cyberattack and being fully prepared to handle one. As you plan for the future, business stakeholders need to consider why cybersecurity ultimately begins in the c-suite. Executive support for a security team's strategic approach and actions can mean the difference between a costly cyberattack and a non-event.
Members of the c-suite can impact the threat horizon through their support for an innovative security strategy and the organization-wide changes it requires. As such, executives should be aware of their company’s risk profile and security strategy, and need to understand the influence they can wield over their organization’s cybersecurity posture.
When it comes to cybersecurity visibility, seeing is protecting. Moving forward, cybersecurity will become a regular topic across the c-suite, including during discussions about business operations and customer engagement.
The Secureworks Consulting and Incident Response portfolio is designed to combine the collective strengths of threat-informed, reactive and proactive strategic and technical expertise to help organizations respond quickly and effectively to incidents while proactively bolstering security maturity and cyber resilience.
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