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The State of Network Security 2013: Attitudes and Opinions

Security, network operations and compliance professionals share their concerns and challenges with securing and managing increasingly complex networks.

SECURITY

Network Operations

Process is

is from Within 65.4%


said insider threats were the greatest concern
said accidental insider threats said malicious insider threats

The Greatest Threat

a Problem

60%

identied manual processes, poor change management and lack of visibility as the greatest challenge of managing security devices.

40.8% 24.6%

65.4 38 % % 34.6%
Out-of-Process Firewall Changes

34.6%

said external threats were greatest concern

Increases Out

Of Service!

Out of Service!

Out of Process!

76.6%

suffered network or application outage due to an out-of-process change

Bring Your Own Device

or Disaster 66%
said it increases security complexity

Application Changes

Disrupt the Business

80.6%
application network outage outage

said allowing employees to connect personal devices to the corporate network increases the risk of a security breach

suffered an outage, breach or decreased network performance due to an application-related rule change

55%

30.7% 29.1% 20.7%

decreased performance

40%

said it increases chance of network or application outage

said it creates compliance issues

40%
NGFWs Lead
to More Policy Change

In the Security Battle, Next-Generation is

NOW!
57.5% 56%

& More Work

55.6%

said they implemented NGFWs

said NGFWs add more management work Better security, but at a cost

Why is adoption increasing?


said to improve protection from attacks

said they made more changes to NGFWs compared to traditional rewalls

50%

Security in the Cloud:

Reality or Still a Dream?

of organizations have less than a quarter of their security controls in the cloud.

60%

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