Gartner: Pay Less Attention to Security Technology
Security professionals should refrain from buying big-box appliances and talk to upper-level executives about making security decisions based on carefully assessing any risks to the data being protected rather than blindly defending against all attacks, according to the opening keynote at the 2013 Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit.
According to a report from CRN, Gartner estimates that only eight percent of organizations are running next-generation firewalls, and organizations that purchased those firewalls are not properly configuring them or using them to their fullest extent. CISOs might be better off addressing attack preparation, including training against an incident response plan.