Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 26 | Page 23

LATEST INTELLIGENCE struggle with disconnected point tools, manual processes, and a global cybersecurity skills shortage. The security data pipeline continues to grow in volume and complexity. Nearly one-third of organizations collect substantially more data to support cybersecurity analytics and operations today than they did 2 years ago, while more than half are retaining data online for longer periods of time than in the past. Evolving from SIEM to SOAPA. Seventy percent of organizations have a security event and information management (SIEM) system in place, and use SIEM for monitoring the security of cloud-based workloads, detecting known cyber-attacks, and producing reports for regulatory compliance. Staffing and skills shortages lead inevitably to managed services. Three- quarters of respondents agree that the cybersecurity skills shortage has impacted their organization’s security analytics and operations effectiveness and 70% say it is difficult to recruit and hire additional SOC staff. SOCs will have a “cloudy” future. Many organizations are moving on from on- premises security analytics and operations technologies, as more than half now prefer cloud-based security analytics/operations solutions or would consider cloud-based security analytics/operations solutions on a case-by-case basis. Some will “lift and shift” on-premises tools to the cloud, some will replace on-premises tools with cloud-based alternatives, and some will supplement on- premises SOC technologies with additional cloud-based tools. Organizations are incorporating machine learning and automation/orchestration into their technology plans. More than half of organizations are adopting technologies featuring security analytics machine learning algorithms while nearly two-thirds are utilizing new technologies for process automation/orchestration. n Download whitepapers free from www.intelligentcio.com/me/whitepapers/ www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 23