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How to Improve your Security Posture and

ROI

By Mark Evans, VP Marketing and Packet Capture Evangelist at Endace

Let’s assume your security team has completed all the “low-hanging fruit” security essentials. They’ve
made sure all the basic hygiene factors have been addressed – efficient patch management is in place,
network and endpoint security and log collection solutions have been deployed, and alerting and security
incident triage processes are working too. Not to mention, security awareness training is regularly
conducted across the organization.

What, then, are the next steps to building a truly robust security posture? What do you need to put in
place to help your teams combat the increasing flood of cyberattacks, eradicate alert fatigue, and prevent
burnout? What will enable you to better manage security in an increasingly complex on-prem, cloud, and
hybrid-cloud environment with multiple different vendor solutions in play?

How can you accomplish all this in today’s climate of budget cuts, increasing workloads, and extreme
shortage of skilled cybersecurity people?

Let’s address four of the top cybersecurity challenges that organizations are grappling with, and what
leading organizations are doing to address them.

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