| | JUNE - 2018ENTERPRISE SECURITY8As an industry, it's perhaps a statement of the obvious to express that our security problems are getting worse. Depending on your analyst of choice, security incidents are up year over year by anywhere from 40-60 percent or more. One such report, published by Help Net Security, reports that compared to the last six months of 2016, the number of lost, stolen or compromised records increased by 164 percent in the first half of 2017. This does not even reflect the increase in quality or sophistication of each incident. Partly attributable to the Shadow Brokers leaks, it has become a trivial exercise for low level malicious actors to initiate attacks AWhy our Security Problems Are Getting Worse...By Jeff Schwartz, VP, North America Engineering, Check Point Software TechnologiesIN MY OPINIONSecurity spending is up 8 percent year over year, yet security incidents are up ~40 percent. Why does the security "ball of yarn" continue to unravel as we pull the string. In this article, you will learn why our security problems continue to get worse and what we need to do about it. How do organizations succeed in delivering "agile" to their business while increasing security effectiveness at the same time? Evolving from traditional networking and security models one step at a time will not empower you to deliver Change to your organization, nor will it change your security outcomes.
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