Introduction
This Economic Validation from Tech Target’s Enterprise Strategy Group focused on the quantitative and qualitative benefits organizations can expect by using Fortinet Security Operations solutions rather than continuing to use several alternative point security products.
As organizations grow and new technologies emerge, the result is a rapidly expanding attack surface, with more threats being created from more sources and across more devices than ever before. Employees are working from more places and using more devices, while companies are integrating IT services with customers and suppliers and shifting toward using more cloud technologies. This places even more pressure on security teams to keep up, and attackers are constantly evolving and trying to stay one step in front of existing security methods and tools. Attackers have access to their own supply chain of shared information and products and are made more effective by using services provided by more experienced cybercriminals such as malware-as-a-service (MaaS) and ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). They also have access to distributed attacks (such as distributed denial of services or DDoS attacks) and are able to coordinate attacks with other individuals into campaigns that are much harder to detect and prevent against (it is not enough to simply block an IP or particular geography). This can lead to a steep learning curve for SOC teams and makes it difficult to stay ahead of the latest threats. The result is that organizations without colossal budgets required to build and operate an effective SOC are slow to identify and remediate potential attacks.