Research: 52 Percent Of Companies Have Difficulty Innovating Due To Unintegrated Security Solutions

Research by IBM and Palo Alto Networks (photo: Palo Alto Networks)

JAKARTA - The latest global research from IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Palo Alto Networks states that organizations face security complexity challenges.

Where in research conducted on 1,000 executives from 21 industries in 18 countries, these companies claimed to manage an average of 83 security solutions different from 29 vendors.

Titled 'Capturing the Cybersecurity Dividend: How Security Platforms Generate Business Value', 52 percent of executives stated that the split security solutions limited their ability to innovate and deal with cyber threats.

In addition, 75 percent of executives agree that better security integration is very important for digital transformation and sustainable governance.

"Organization continues to face challenges in renewing its security posture to address new threats, while at the same time it must reduce complexity and reduce costs," said Mark Hughes, IBM Global Managing Partner for Cybersecurity Services in an official statement.

This analysis shows that the strategy of adding various solutions to face the growing security challenges actually contributes to the inefficiencies that have an impact on the company's performance and profits.

In contrast, platformization-based security approaches or integrating various security solutions into one centralized system can help companies reduce response times and costs without compromising security effectiveness.

"We see the positive impact of the platformization approach in security and benefits provided to various organizations," continued Karim Temsamani, President, Next Generation Security, Palo Alto Networks.

Karim also emphasized that in this AI-driven era, solid partnerships have become more crucial than before.