EMA Network Security Survey and Recommendations

Network Security SurveyAnd recommendations for improvements in 2017

Survey by Enterprise Management Associates, sponsored by Ixia

are still not inspecting live network traffic

Yet14%Three out of four enterprises have been affected*ATTACKS ARE COMMON

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* 2016 Cyberthreat Defense Report

F i n d t h r e a t s f a s t e r w i t h i n l i n e s e c u r i t y L E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/solutions/inline-security-resilience

of monitoring tools don’t match the speed of the link they’re deployed on

And 26% Impact the performance of network devicesNETWORK UPGRADES

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O p e r a t e t o o l s e f f i c i e n t l y w i t h a p a c k e t b r o k e r L E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/products/network-packet-brokers

Protects traffic from an offline security applianceAN INTERNAL BYPASS

But 45% of appliances cannot be updated while network is available

A n e x t e r n a l b y p a s s p r o t e c t s n e t w o r k u p t i m eL E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/products/bypass-switches

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of security appliances do not receive filtered traffic

Yet 40-50%Annual IP traffic is expected to triple over the next five years*

TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING

R e d u c e c o n g e s t i o n w i t h i n t e l l i g e n t f i l t e r i n gL E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/solutions/out-band-monitoring

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* 2016 Cisco Cloud Index

of tools are either under- or over-utilized

But 63% Should match enterprise needs without over-investment

TOOL CAPACITY

S h a r e t o o l c a p a c i t y w i t h a s e c u r i t y f a b r i cL E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/securityfabric

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of staff time is spent researching alerts and configuring tools

And 25-50%Is still a top concern of IT managersSECURITY SKILLS GAP

B o o s t p r o d u c t i v i t y w i t h t h r e a t i n t e l l i g e n c eL E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/products/threatarmor

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report IT budgets have increased for the coming year

Around 80%for network security in 2017 BUT THERE’S GOOD NEWS…

I n c r e a s i n g v i s i b i l i t y w i l l i m p r o v e s e c u r i t yL E A R N M O R E : https://www.ixiacom.com/solutions/ixvision-architecture

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ImproveSecurity

Invest inVisibility

Recommendations for 2017

DeploySecurity Fabric+ =

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Survey Demographics

< 500< 1000< 2500< 5000< 1000010K+20k+

13%

23%

20%12%

16%

16%10%

EMPLOYEES

5-20M

20-10M

100M-1B

1B+

Don't know

16%

31%28%

20%

2% 2%

REVENUE

< 350k< 1M< 5M< 10M< 25M< 50M< 100M100M+Don’t know

1%

11%

17%

25%14%

15%

7%7%

2%

IT BUDGET

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Complete survey results on SlideShare at: EMA Network Security Survey

For More Information

• Read the blog: Network Security Survey Finds Areas for Improvement in 2017 .

• Learn how to make network security safer and more resilient at:

www.ixiacom.com/solutions/inline-security-resilience