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Security top concern for organizations transitioning to SD-WAN

October 25, 2018 by Christine Barry

We're excited to announce that we've recently completed a global study on SD-WAN adoption in business, and the results are now available to the public. As we've often done in the past, Barracuda commissioned Vanson Bourne to conduct the study and compile the stats that informed our conclusions. This particular survey polled IT leaders and network and security professionals on topics surrounding WAN connectivity and SD-WAN as a solution to their Wide Area Networks. Klaus Gheri has blogged about the EMEA region results here, and the global and regional white papers are available here. This blog post will look at some of the US and global results. For complete results, visit our website here to download a white paper.

First let's start with some background. Secure SD-WAN is an area of strong interest for Barracuda. While we do not offer a pure-play SD-WAN solution, the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall provides Secure SD-WAN capabilities. In a pure-play scenario, the SD-WAN solution provides some traffic optimization and link and load balancing, and in most cases it requires a separate security solution. This can increase complexity and costs, and often prevents any type of centralized management and policy enforcement.

Coming to Terms with Being an IT Cybersecurity Professional

October 24, 2017 by Mike Vizard

Being a cybersecurity professional is roughly the digital equivalent of a being a crossing guard. The cross guard is there to keep everyone safe. But half a block down from that cross guard standing at a crosswalk are pedestrians that routinely jaywalk. Many of them know there’s a crossing guard up ahead. They more than half the population would rather not wait two minutes for that crossing guard to usher them across the street. That same scenario plays out in IT security every day. In fact, a new survey of 500 chief information security officers (CISOs) conducted by the research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Bromium, a provider of secure virtual machines for endpoints, finds that 74 percent of the CISOs surveyed said users have expressed frustration concerning security preventing them from doing their job. A full 81 percent of those CISOs said they have also been told security is a hurdle to innovation.

Time to Talk About the Cybersecurity Elephant in the Room

June 9, 2017 by Mike Vizard

The cybersecurity elephant in the room that most organizations don’t really want to address is that a huge percentage of the systems still being used every day are indefensible.

A survey of 500 chief information security officers (CISOs) conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Bromium, a provider of container software to provide higher levels of isolation between applications and the platforms they run on, finds organizations are now issuing patches on average five times per month. The report estimates that each patch requires 13 man hours to implement. The report also finds that more than half had to pay staff overtime or hire a third-party services firm at an average cost of $19,908 per patch. It’s little wonder that 53 percent of the CISOs describe crisis patch management as a major disruption to their IT and security teams.

The Trouble with Average IT Security

January 27, 2017 by Mike Vizard

When most people think about crime it’s generally viewed as something unfortunate that happens to somebody else. Not surprisingly, that same attitude appears to be carrying over into the realm of cybersecurity.

A new survey of 200 IT decision makers working in midsized companies conducted by the research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Artic Wolf Networks, finds that 95 percent of the respondent rated the cyber defenses they have implemented as being above average.