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veal the cloud is a significant concern by 63 percent of respondents. www.AmericanSecurityToday.com May 2020 - Edition 44 • It attributes this finding to the continued migration of companies to IaaS and SaaS services and the concerns cybersecurity professionals have about securing these broad attack surfaces and shared security models. dwell time remains significant. • Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of respondents indicated that 100 days of dwell time (the length of time from when an attacker enters a network to when the organization detects them) seemed accurate or was too low (up from 61% last year). • The challenge in reducing attacker • The highest jump in responses, increasing 7 percent from last year – and an alarming trend – came from 22 percent who stated that they were not tracking dwell time statistics. • These findings highlight a continued need for more efficient tools to detect and track in-network threat activity and lateral movement. • Organizations are increasingly adopting complementary security technologies. • Respondents believe 6