Category: Software, Business, Security, Data

By Chris Hallenbeck on June 18, 2020Leave a CommentLast year, the average business lost $13 million to cybercrime, which is 12% more than in 2017 and 72% more than in 2014.

Over the last two years, they increased operations budgets by 11% and allocated 18% more funding to security teams.However, despite massive budget increases, both operations and security teams continue to struggle.

More tools” aren’t bringing siloed IT teams closer together, and aren’t achieving the kind of total visibility and control of all endpoints needed for effective risk mitigation.Here are some ways to reconsider the crucial collaboration between IT operations and security teams.While just 27% of the enterprises we consulted on these issues would describe their IT teams as “embedded,” as many as 67% said that coordination among teams is extremely challenging.

To keep an organization nimble and responsive, ITOps and security must work together to select solutions that are capable of solving the range of problems that both teams face, and agree on what data is most important.As many as 80% of the organizations we spoke to said that maintaining IT hygiene was the most challenging task for IT operations and security teams.

It is essential that IT operations and security teams unite around a common set of actionable data and are empowered to ask questions about the state of every endpoint across the enterprise, retrieve data on their current and historical state, and execute change as necessary.

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