DULLES, Va., June 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A new global
study commissioned by Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) reveals organizations
worldwide wait until they fall victim to a damaging cyber attack
before engaging a provider of managed security services, or MSS.
Two-thirds of survey respondents indicated that not until there is
a significant data loss from an IT security breach are their
organizations motivated to engage a vendor.
Don't Wait: The Evolution of Proactive Threat Hunting, a
survey of 1,784 information security leaders in 19 countries about
outsourcing network security activities, also revealed
organizations are looking for more from their providers than
traditional services such as firewalls, intrusion detection and
virtual private networks. To truly defend their networks from
attacks amidst staff shortfalls, budget pressures and higher-risk
cyber environments, security leaders are adopting MSS that include
advanced capabilities like hunting, incident response and
integration services, currently offered by a small subset of
today's providers.
"Cybersecurity is not a waiting game, and organizations without
the expertise and tools required to identify and respond to skilled
adversaries need to understand that," said Jack Harrington, vice president of cybersecurity
and special missions at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and
Services. "The old approach waited for technology to flag known
threats. In contrast, skilled hunters like those on our team
proactively seek emerging threats and stop them before businesses
suffer damage."
Eighty percent of respondents reported that MSS are important to
their overall IT security strategy. However, there is room for
improvement. Eighty-four percent say their provider does not offer
proactive hunting services even though they effectively find the
most insidious threats impacting enterprises and governments
alike.
"There is only one way to find the most sophisticated, damaging
cyber threats attacking a company's network: proactively hunt for
them," said David Amsler, president
of Raytheon Foreground Security. "Too many organizations today rely
on reactive models and automated tools that attempt to detect
threats through signature-, rule- or sandbox-driven models. The
reactive approach is not enough to stop the determined and
sophisticated adversaries which are most often the cause of
significant damage or data loss."
Raytheon's related offerings include proactive threat hunting, a
virtual security operations center, its patented Automated Threat
Intelligence Platform technology, cyber security assessments,
digital forensics and incident response.
Key findings of the survey include:
- Security leaders rely on MSS because:
- It improves their cybersecurity posture (59 percent)
- Finding and retaining in-house top talent is a challenge (58
percent)
- They lack in-house technology (57 percent)
- 54 percent of MSS users reported that in the last year, their
provider found software exploitation more than three months old on
their network
- 73 percent asserted it's essential or very important that their
provider has a high level of interoperability with the company's
security intelligence tools
- 59 percent agree that responsibility for the vendor
relationship is shifting from the IT department to the line of
business, indicating cybersecurity has become a boardroom
concern
- Insufficient personnel and lack of in-house experts are the top
challenges to a robust security posture for security leaders
Don't Wait: The Evolution of Proactive Threat
Hunting was conducted by Ponemon Institute in April 2016. The margin of error for the survey
was plus or minus four percentage points at a 95-percent confidence
level.
For the complete report, please visit
www.raytheoncyber.com/DontWaitHunt.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2015 sales
of $23 billion and 61,000 employees, is a technology and
innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and
cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 94
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission
systems integration, C5I™ products and services, sensing,
effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80
countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham,
Mass. Visit us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on
Twitter @Raytheon.
About Ponemon Institute
Ponemon Institute was founded in 2002 by Dr. Larry Ponemon.
Headquartered in Michigan, Ponemon Institute is considered the
pre-eminent research center dedicated to privacy, data protection
and information security policy. Ponemon Institute's annual
consumer studies on privacy trust are widely quoted in the media
and the organization's research quantifying the cost of a data
breach has become valuable to organizations seeking to understand
the business impact of lost or stolen data.
For more information, please
visit: http://www.ponemon.org/.
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