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GIGAMON RESEARCH REVEALS GLOBAL SECURITY LEADERS ARE LOSING GROUND IN THE RACE AGAINST CYBERCRIME AS UNDETECTED BREACHES RISE BY 20 %

New research shows one in three organisations were unable to detect a breach in the last 12 months , with just 25 % able to respond in real time .

Gigamon , a leader in deep observability , has published its 2024 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey , revealing that organisations around the world are still startlingly unprepared for modern , sophisticated cyberthreats .

The annual survey of over 1,000 Security and IT leaders across Australia , France , Germany , Singapore , UK and the USA , shows a decline in detection and response capabilities year-on-year compared to the company ’ s 2023 Hybrid Cloud Security Report .
As hybrid cloud environments grow in complexity and bad actors launch a barrage of unseen attacks , 65 % of respondents believe that their existing solutions cannot effectively detect breaches . increasing their cyber-risk , and the spectre of AIpowered attacks looms globally . Eight in 10 respondents predict that AI will increase the global ransomware threat . And yet , despite global information security spending projected to reach US $ 215 billion in 2024 , only 54 % of organisations feel ‘ strongly prepared ’ to respond to unauthorised access in hybrid cloud environments .
Organisations are unprepared for attacks
Survey respondents generally acknowledge weaknesses in their threat detection tools . Just one in four were able to remediate a live threat in a recent breach – while this rises to 30 % in Germany , it falls to just one-fifth in Australia and Singapore .
Security and IT leaders are at a crucial juncture . Some 83 % of respondents believe that cloud complexity is
When tooling fails , organisations suffer more serious consequences :
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