Cybersecurity Simulation Tools Don’t Inspire Confidence

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Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 8, 2019

Organizations use a lot of different products as part of IT security operations, but they have much more confidence in some of those security tool than others, according to eSecurity Planet‘s newly released 2019 State of IT Security survey.

Simulation technology doesn’t impress

Topping the list of security solutions that organizations lack confidence in are simulation technologies like phishing simulation and breach and attack simulation (BAS). Across organizations of all sizes, 24 percent of respondents indicated that they were not confident in phishing simulations, while 20 percent noted they were not confident in BAS solutions.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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