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NEW RESEARCH : 79 % OF EUROPEAN BUSINESSES ALREADY SEEING SAVINGS FROM SHIFT TO CLOUD SECURITY

Eight in 10 European businesses that have begun the move towards cloud security have already started to see savings , according to new research published by Netskope . The research , conducted by global research company , Censuswide , polled 700 IT professionals in the UK and Germany to explore how organisations are evolving their network and security strategies .

Nearly four out of five European businesses have already found savings by using cloud security to replace legacy security appliances and reduce bandwidth requirements , according to research conducted by Netskope , a leader in SASE .

Savings are coming from hardware and appliance replacement including VPNs ( 25 %), reduced bandwidth needs ( 23 %) and vendor consolidation ( 21 %). Replacing costly firewalls ( with Firewall-as-a- Service FWaaS ) in particular has produced savings for 21 % of IT teams .
28 % of CIOs and CISOs expect network and security teams to continue to compete for ownership of projects .
proportion ( 99.5 %) of research respondents are undertaking network and security transformation projects in the next five years , and more than half are already underway or lined up for the next 12 months .
The research was undertaken to investigate European CIO and CISO intentions and practices at a time of huge security and networking change . A large
The question the research looked to answer was : what does this mean in practice for teams , budgets , skills and suppliers ?
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