Increasingly, threat actors are automating their work, sharing information about targets and attack techniques, and collaborating and orchestrating massive targeted attacks together. The volume and complexity of attacks is rising rapidly, and almost 1 million new malware threats are released across the globe each day. ¹Security teams receive a staggering number of alerts, and are simply unable to keep up.
Research by EMA found that 80% of organisations receiving 500 or more critical alerts per day, are only able to investigate less than 1% of those alerts. ² Most of the alerts are false positives, and alerts that are truly critical gets lost in the noise and sheer volume.
The global skills shortage of industry-ready cybersecurity professionals is predicted to rise to 1.5 million by 2020, and there is no immediate solution in sight. ³With escalating cyberattacks and manpower shortage, we need machines powered by artificial intelligence, data analytics and machine learning to augment human capabilities in defending these attacks.