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As companies undertake massive initiatives around digital transformation and the pandemic, the IT and security problems created in their fallout have become increasingly more complex. Companies recognize this, and have aligned security priorities to their business priorities. As cyber insurance agencies continue to introduce new, strict requirements, businesses are under increasing pressure to meet them. The most effective approach businesses can take is by investing in solutions and processes that address existing requirements and can scale to meet new ones. Businesses must – and will continue to – manage the following issues:

• New architectures facilitating digital operations. The combination of digital transformation projects and the pandemic caused complexities in IT ecosystems. New VPN options, network segmentations, and tenants are a few components that most companies changed in their architectures.
• Larger attack surfaces to defend and observe. Business processes have become more complex and specialized, resulting in the adoption of more applications tuned to specific processes and purposes.
• Personnel limitations for Security Operations Centers (SOCs). SOCs have historically been reliant on the concentrated roles and responsibilities of a few security specialists. The entire response process has a single point of failure if these specialists either leave, become unavailable, or overloaded.
• More sophisticated attacks. Risk has become increasingly more dynamic and expansive. This is in part a combination of complex IT ecosystems, and growing attacker sophistication in how to take advantage of these complexities.