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What have been the biggest challenges faced by security operations teams within the last year ? to leverage unsupervised Machine Learning and AI to pinpoint the abnormal behaviour , find unknown threats and cut through the noise .
Among the multiple challenges that faced security operations last year , there are three worth mentioning .
The first challenge is the increase in COVID-themed attacks . We have observed a 238 % increase in cyberattacks against organisations due to COVID , putting security operations under enormous pressure to validate , investigate and respond to each of those attacks . Organisations have been requited to implement solutions that monitor and validate threats based on observed behaviours and calculated risk while reducing false-positive alerts .
Finally , the economic situation associated with the pandemic impacted security operations resources , with workforce limitations due to sickness , a hiring freeze , or even cutting down human resources . Organisations have had to accelerate effective threat detection and response in real-time using automation and orchestration and eliminating manual tasks to maximise efficiency .
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The second challenge is the obsolete models used to detect cyberattacks . The implemented models assumed users would be physically in the office , follow mostly a 9 – 5 access pattern and their traffic would pass through the corporate security controls . Organisations have had
We have observed interest in multiple security solutions that we provide . Still , the two that stand out are Zero Trust offerings such as identity governance , access control and multi-factor authentication , and data privacy offerings such as data discovery ,
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