Now that businesses have allowed their employees to operate remotely, their attention is shifting toward protecting them from increasingly damaging cybersecurity threats. Of all the different ways they can pose to solve the problem, many companies are choosing the SASE or zero trust strategy.
This is according to a report recently released by ISACA and HCL Technologies, based on a poll of more than 3,600 cybersecurity professionals worldwide. It states that SASE or zero trust adoption is highest among pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare organizations (48%), followed by finance, banking and insurance (46%).
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Regardless of industry, data loss prevention (DLP) technology seems to be the most popular of all SASE technologies, followed by secure, trustless web portals and SD-WAN.
When it comes to threat types, social engineering remains the most popular, followed by advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware (opens in a new tab)exploitation of unpatched systems and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
The biggest concerns of respondents are the potential for damage to business reputation, data theft and supply chain disruption.
Leaving aside SASE and zero trust, businesses are also increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), whose use in SecOps increased 4% year-over-year. The report also suggests that there are a lot of businesses that are still researching and developing their AI capabilities and aren’t ready to go public – a “promising” indicator for the future of AI.
