With distressing regularity, new breaches continue to make headlines. The biggest companies, the largest institutions both private and government are affected. Every sector is in the news. Recounting these attacks is fruitless. Taking action based on the trends and threat landscape is the best step. Smarter threats that evade basic detection, mixed with the operational challenge of skills shortage, make the protection gap wider.

An overemphasis on prevention defines the current state of defenses as shown in the pie chart below.

According to a 2015 cybersecurity report, over 85% of senior IT and business leaders report that they feel there is a labor crisis of skilled cybersecurity workers. Gartner believes approximately 50% of budgeted security positions are vacant; on average, technical staff spend about four years in a position before moving on. The threats that this outnumbered corps are working to confront are evolving so fast that security departments’ staffing methods are often hopelessly out of date.

The main lesson to learn is that “perfect protection is not practical, so monitoring is necessary.”

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