More than a third of cybersecurity professionals have cited employee burnout as the most concerning issue among increasing cyber threats, cybersecurity specialists Integrity360 and Vectra have found.

Almost 63% of respondents to a poll run by the companies highlighted security of data as being most important to their organisation when establishing the need for effective cybersecurity services.

Of lesser concern was securing reputation (19%), productivity (12%) and saving money (7%). The poll, comprising four question and answer options, was conducted on Twitter from 1-5 December and drew some 1,438 responses.

Organisations will seek to implement critical security measures to ensure greater threat detection and response in 2023, with identity and access management (29.9%) and cloud security (29.7%) on top of the agenda, followed by network (19.6%) and endpoint security (20.6%).

When questioned on the best approaches to future-proof the security of their organisation, 52% of respondents to the poll pointed to artificial intelligence and machine learning as the best means.

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Richard Ford, CTO at Integrity360, said: “Analysts are facing severe burnout from alert fatigue and Security Operations Centre (SOC) overwhelm, and organisations are lacking the experience, skills and bandwidth needed to detect and manage security incidents and data - quickly and effectively."

Integrity360 and Ventra have partnered to extend their existing threat detection and response service portfolio, and now offer network detection and response as well as cloud, SaaS and identity detection and response capabilities with the launch of the Vectra Managed Detection and Response Services.

"The integration of Vectra into our MDR service is a game changer," Ford said. "It allows us to provide a full end to end capability to monitor and proactively hunt threats across the entire hybrid enterprise, delivering advanced Threat Detection and Threat Response services and relieving SOC teams overwhelmed by noise.”

Garry Veale, regional director for UKI at Vectra, commented: “The partnership sets us apart from the ‘catch and dispatch’, ‘detect and notify’ type providers, by enabling us to proactively hunt threats within the customer environment, integrating with enforcement points, identity, perimeter, and endpoint for effective and rapid response in the event of an active threat.

"This approach signifies a huge breakthrough in MDR services, and we are excited to see how the partnership evolves.”

Integrity360 expects to record revenues of approximately €80m in 2020 and now employs over 300 people, including 200 cybersecurity engineers, analysts, consultants and specialists

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