Of all the myriad ways in which technology innovation impacts an organization, one issue continues to dominate: cybersecurity. Though digital security has long been top of mind for IT leaders, the scale, extent, and sophistication of cybercrime continues to evolve to a level where it now presents an existential threat to many organizations. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (now Omdia) research, improving cybersecurity posture and organizations’ resiliency against cyberattacks is comfortably the most important technology priority among IT leaders (see Figure 1).
What were once ad hoc attempts to take down individual applications and services by opportunistic individuals have transformed into a relentless barrage of precisely orchestrated attacks, often by well-organized crime syndicates.
