Report: 36% of safety execs have adopted hardware-assisted cybersecurity

Cybersecurity has turn out to be prime of thoughts for a lot of enterprise leaders during the last 12 months as a result of elevated risk panorama. A brand new report from Intel and the Ponemon Institute analyzes how organizations are approaching safety innovation in an more and more digital world to higher shield themselves.

The report reveals that the highest areas of focus for safety innovation inside organizations at the moment are automation (41%), safety on the silicon stage (40%), cloud migration (40%) and training and coaching (38%). The pandemic’s impression on the best way and the way we work has been a most important driver behind enterprises refreshing their safety methods — in line with 53% of IT safety professionals.

To obtain this stage of innovation, many organizations need to enhance hardware-assisted safety options. Thirty-six % of IT safety professionals say their group’s present cybersecurity protocols use hardware-assisted safety options. Of these 36%, 47% say their organizations will undertake hardware-assisted safety options within the subsequent six months to 12 months.

Yet, many enterprises are already tapping into the ability of hardware-enhanced safety options to assist shield their whole safety stack and need to expertise distributors to assist them prioritize and undertake hardware-assisted options into their safety methods. Of those self same 36% utilizing hardware-assisted safety options, 85% say {hardware} or firmware-based safety is a excessive or very excessive precedence for his or her group. And 64% of IT safety professionals say it’s necessary for distributors to supply each {hardware} and software-assisted safety capabilities.

However, enterprises are searching for particular expertise distributors to assist them obtain innovation of their safety stack. The report discovered that 64% of respondents say a corporation is extra prone to buy applied sciences and providers from suppliers which might be forefront with respect to innovation. This implies that it’s as much as distributors to proceed to supply enterprises with essentially the most progressive {hardware} and software program safety options to assist shield in opposition to the ever-evolving risk panorama.  

For the report, Intel engaged with Ponemon Institute to conduct a survey of over 1,400 IT safety professionals who’re influential in IT safety decision-making concerning funding in applied sciences within the United States, Latin America, and EMEA.

Read the full report by Intel and the Ponemon Institute.