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BENEFITS OF CONTINUOUS SECURITY MONITORING

Continuous security monitoring solutions give organizations the visibility they need to identify vulnerabilities and attacks. They provide real-time views to help IT professionals respond proactively and quickly to threats and compromises. Top continuous security monitoring solutions give companies complete end-to-end visibility to identify security misconfigurations or vulnerabilities and help them to meet regulatory information security compliance complete with analytics and reports. Top continuous security monitoring solutions integrate with organizations’ infrastructure and detect devices as soon as they attempt to connect to the network, thereby helping to thwart cyber threats introduced by unauthorized or risky devices. Cyber threat monitoring solutions classify devices by type, ownership, and operating system to deliver insights and the visibility that enable preventive and reactive actions when the network is at risk. It’s clear that organizations of...

The Scale of the Cyber Threat

The global cyber threat and IT security monitoring continue to evolve at a rapid pace, with a rising number of data breaches each year. A report by  RiskBased Security  revealed that a shocking 7.9 billion records have been exposed by data breaches in the first nine months of 2019 alone. This figure is more than double (112%) the number of records exposed in the same period in 2018. Medical services, retailers and public entities experienced the most breaches, with malicious criminals responsible for most incidents. Some of these sectors are more appealing to cybercriminals because they collect financial and medical data, but all businesses that use networks can be targeted for customer data, corporate espionage, or customer attacks. With the scale of the cyber threat set to continue to rise, the  International Data Corporation  predicts that worldwide spending on cyber-security solutions will reach a massive $133.7 billion by 2022. Governments across the glob...