TRENDING
• One in three network and security teams are going to merge within the next two years , driven by a significant growth in cloud use which , according to CIOs and CISOs ; ‘ makes the separation of teams unhelpful ’.
• 92 % of CIOs do not intend to converge network and security budgets , even when they merge the teams , potentially risking internal friction .
• 27 % of IT leaders are moving responsibility and funding for network security to the security team to fund SASE and Zero Trust , but the same number ( 27 %) is pushing security budgets in the other direction , handing them to network and infrastructure teams to fund a security-by-design approach .
• 28 % of survey participants decreed that SASE was owned by networking teams , with only 18 % deeming it to be the responsibility of security and 31 % saying it was shared .
• Given this lack of market consistency , it is unsurprising that 28 % of CIOs and CISOs expect network and security teams to continue to compete for ownership of projects .
Team and skills
Neil Thacker , CISO EMEA at Netskope
Ownership and funding
The first finding from the research was a lack of clarity over who should take responsibility – and pay – for key transformation projects and frameworks such as SASE and Zero Trust .
With network and security converging , 67 % of European IT teams will be reporting to both the CIO and CISO , either directly or through dotted line hierarchies .
• With network and security converging , 67 % of European IT teams will be reporting to both the CIO and CISO , either directly or through dotted line hierarchies .
• 28 % are growing or expect to grow their security team to service an expanded remit due to the organisation ’ s use of cloud .
• 28 % of organisations that have moved at least some of their security to the cloud reported having already made changes to the structure or staffing of the networking team , and 26 % reported changes to their security team .
• 46 % of survey participants stated either that they are already struggling to find suitable candidates for their security roles or that they anticipate difficulty in future .
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