Study: IT staff pressured to buy useless cybersecurity products

A new study found that IT managers feel pressured to purchase new cybersecurity products even if they don’t have the skills to implement the technology properly. 

A new study looking at the various pressures on IT security professionals has found that many are on the rise, especially those related to dealing with the board and with having enough skilled employees.

The 2016 Security Pressures Report is the third commissioned by security and compliance vendor Trustwave Inc. Steve Kelly, Trustwave chief marketing officer, told SearchSecurity that seeing the data year-over-year helps to quantify the changes, which is important because “pressure in a lot of cases can be relative. It could be relative to the person answering the survey; it could be relative to the business you’re in.”

The top three items on the 2016 wish list of respondents in the survey were additional budget (33%), more security expertise/skilled employees (20%), and fewer complex technologies (15%). For the full article click here 

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