The State of Security Remediation 2024
Released: 02/13/2024
Security remediation involves identifying, evaluating, and addressing security vulnerabilities to mitigate potential risks. In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, this remains a critical aspect of organizational defense strategies. However, the effectiveness of remediation efforts is contingent upon several factors, ranging from team collaboration to the efficiency of tools and processes in place. Those key issues should be addressed when the average cost of a data breach is $7.29 million.
Dazz commissioned CSA to develop a survey and report to better understand the industry’s knowledge, attitudes, and opinions regarding security remediation. The survey was conducted in December 2023 and received 2,037 responses from IT and security professionals. The primary objectives of the survey were to gain a deeper understanding of current cloud environments and security tools, challenges in today’s vulnerability assessment and mitigation practices, and opportunities to lower risk. The survey results included in this report emphasize several important areas of cybersecurity remediation that could be improved.
Key Takeaways:
- Only 23% of organizations report full visibility in their cloud environments.
- 63% of organizations consider duplicate alerts a moderate to significant challenge.
- 61% of organizations use between 3-6 different detection tools.
- About 75% of organizations have security teams spending over 20% of their time performing manual tasks when addressing security alerts.
- 18% of organizations take more than four days to address critical vulnerabilities.
- Over half of the vulnerabilities addressed by organizations tend to recur within a month of remediation.
- 18% of organizations report no collaboration or counterproductive relationships between security and development teams.
About the Sponsor
Dazz accelerates cloud software delivery for modern security and development teams.
The Dazz Remediation Cloud maps your code-to-production pipelines; performs smart root cause analysis and prioritizes risk; identifies code owners, and streamlines remediation right in the developer’s workflow.
With Dazz, you gain full pipeline visibility, cut through alert noise, and shrink your risk window by extensively reducing time to remediate.
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