Overconfidence to actual security operations has led two-thirds of companies to operate overlapping solutions (half by accident), resulting in wasted budget with no improvement in security posture. A survey reveals the main worries from professionals about defending numerous attack fronts. See below graph. According to CVE Details, there were 12,174 vulnerabilities published, with 1,118 above 8 in severity through December 2019. Organizations on average run 25 to 49 security tools from up to 10 different vendors, according to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Based on this survey, security tool sprawl present an overlap reporting of 66%. 41% of security professionals admit that the overlap is unintentional, 50% of them that it is intentional. Reducing operational tool sprawl is an opportunity to optimize their security solutions budget. Security Professionals, aware of the threats# hashtag#cybersecurity to their organizations, often cope with this by throwing security solutions with overconfidence that these tools perform as expected. Ongoing security testing of their solutions’ configurations and operation would provide security professionals with confidence and proof that their security solutions effectively protect their organizations while providing opportunities to save resource
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