Cybersecurity budgets are up but aren't being well spent

New research from cloud platform Fastly shows that while enterprises are increasing their cybersecurity spending they're not making the most of their investments. While 73 percent of organizations worldwide are increasing their cybersecurity spending to protect themselves against future risks, IT leaders are investing poorly with only 61 percent of their cybersecurity tools fully active or deployed. In the US, only 67 percent of cybersecurity tools are fully deployed. Similarly, due to a scattergun approach to cybersecurity implementation, 42 percent of security tools overlap, protecting organizations against the same threats. And, when these tools do run, they often suffer from… [Continue Reading]