Jon Oltsik, on Jul 31, 2020
In late 2019 and early 2020, the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) conducted the fourth annual research project focused on the lives and experiences of cybersecurity professionals. This year’s report is based on data from a survey of 327 cybersecurity professionals and ISSA members. Ninety-two percent of survey respondents resided in North America, 4% came from Europe, 3% from Asia, and 1% from Central/South America.
Jon Oltsik, on Jul 31, 2020
As the global impact of COVID-19 manifested itself in the US in the middle of March, ESG and ISSA decided to conduct an in-depth survey in April 2020 of 364 cybersecurity and IT professionals from the global ISSA member list. The study was a point in time assessment of challenges posed by the pandemic. It is likely that challenges and solutions will continue to evolve over the next few years.
John Grady, on Jul 29, 2020
ESG’s Master Survey Results provide the complete output of syndicated research surveys in graphical format. In addition to the data, these documents provide background information on the survey, including respondent profiles at an individual and organizational level. It is important to note that these documents do not contain analysis of the data.
This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on modern network security challenges, plans, and strategies as organizations look to cloud-delivered solutions that provide centralized management and distributed enforcement.
Dave Gruber, on Jul 22, 2020
ESG conducted an in-depth survey of 380 IT and cybersecurity professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing endpoint security products, processes, and services. Survey participants represented midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America (United States and Canada).
Survey participants represented a wide range of industries including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications and media, retail, government, and business services. For more details, please see the Research Methodology and Respondent Demographics sections of this report.
John Grady, on Jul 21, 2020
Network security at the perimeter has remained predominantly appliance-centric, despite the acceleration of cloud-delivered solutions in other parts of the stack. That is set to change as organizations look for stronger protection, improved performance, and a more consistent model across the increasingly distributed enterprise environment. Elastic cloud gateways are seeing significant interest as an approach to meet these business requirements through a converged, cloud-delivered network security architecture.
COVID-19 introduced the business world to a new and previously unforeseen risk factor, in-person face-to-face interactions. For knowledge workers, the result was a mass exodus out of corporate offices and into their homes, now dependent on remote work. For the IT organizations tasked with supporting their businesses and those knowledge workers, COVID-19 reaffirmed the importance of digital transformation, now as a risk mitigation tool, emphasizing the continued importance of streamlining operations, while accelerating cloud usage to shift more of the risk burden to third-party providers.
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