siliconindia | | APRIL 20218FIVE REASONS ENTERPRISES AREN'T GETTING THE MOST OUT OF SECURITY AUTOMATIONBy SI TeamAutomation is enterprise cybersecurity's big-gest buzzword as organizations seek to keep pace with a threat landscape that grows more frenetic by the hour. But as automation spend-ing skyrockets, many enterprises are finding that they're not getting the most out of their investment. A new study uncovered that even as security experts are eager to reap the rewards of security automation deployments, there are a number of serious obstacles that must be addressed first.The number one benefit organizations see out of automation--named by 64 per-cent of those surveyed for the study--is the increased productivity that they believe it squeezes out of IT security staffers. Num-ber two was cited by 60 percent of respond-ents, who believe that the automated corre-lation of threat behavior helps them address today's increased volume of threats. As a result, organizations are pouring money by the bucketful into automation and orches-tration tools, hoping to make their employ-ees more efficient and shorten the time it takes for them to detect and respond to in-cidents. According to one analyst estimate, the size of the security orchestration market alone will double in the next three years to become a $1.6 B play within the broader security market.The trouble is that simply inserting your coin into the automated machine doesn't guarantee it's going to work the way you want it. Enterprises are running into five major issues in their bid to streamline security through au-tomation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and or-chestration.AUTOMATION BLOCKER 1: INTEGRATION IS HARDER THAN THEY THINKMany security organizations today are struggling with au-tomation due to integration issues on two fronts. First of In focus
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