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Global Study Finds Artificial Intelligence is Key Weapon for Closing IoT-Era Cybersecurity Gaps

September 2018 by Aruba & Ponemon Institute

As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, and an acute shortage of skilled security professionals, IT security teams need a both a new approach and powerful new tools. Increasingly, they are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as a key weapon to win the battle against stealthy threats inside their IT infrastructures, according to a new global research study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

The Ponemon Institute study, entitled "Closing the IT Security Gap with
Automation & AI in the Era of IoT," surveyed 4,000 security and IT professionals
across the Americas, Europe and Asia, to understand what makes security
deficiencies so hard to fix, and what types of technologies and processes are
needed to stay a step ahead of bad actors within the new threat landscape.

The research revealed that in the quest to protect data and other high-value
assets, security systems incorporating machine-learning and other AI-based
technologies are essential for detecting and stopping attacks that target users
and IoT devices. The majority of respondents agree that security products with
AI functionality will help to:
 Reduce false alerts (68 percent)
 Increase their team’s effectiveness (63 percent)
 Provide greater investigation efficiencies (60 percent)
 Advance their ability to more quickly discover and respond to stealthy
attacks that have evaded perimeter defense systems (56 percent)

Twenty-five percent of respondents said they currently use some form of AI-based
security solution, with another 26 percent stating they plan on deploying these
types of products within the next 12 months.

"Despite massive investments in cybersecurity programs, our research found most
businesses are still unable to stop advanced, targeted attacks, with 45 percent
believing they are not realizing the full value of their defense arsenal," said
Larry Ponemon, chairman, Ponemon Institute. "The situation has become a ’perfect
storm’, with nearly half of respondents saying it’s very difficult to protect
complex and dynamically changing attack surfaces, especially given the current
lack of security staff with the necessary skills and expertise to battle today’s
persistent, sophisticated, well trained and well financed attackers. Against
this backdrop, AI-based security tools, which can automate tasks and free up IT
personnel to manage other aspects of a security program, were viewed as critical
for helping businesses keep up with increasing threat levels."

IoT Devices Represent Significant Risk

Ponemon researchers found that the majority of IT security teams believe that a
key gap in their company’s overall security strategy is their inability to
identify attacks that use IoT devices as the point of entry. In fact, more than
three-quarters of respondents believe their IoT devices are not secure, with 60
percent stating even simple IoT devices pose a threat. Two-thirds of respondents
admitted they have little or no ability to protect their "things" from attacks.
Continuous monitoring of network traffic, closed-loop detection and response
systems, and detecting behavioral anomalies among peer groups of IoT devices
were cited as the most effective approaches to better protect their
environments.

Even the ownership model for IoT security presents potential risk. When asked
who inside their organization was responsible for IoT security, responses ranged
from the CIO, CISO, CTO, and line-of-business leaders, with no majority
consensus. Only 33 percent identified the CIO, with no other executive or
functional group achieving response totals above 20 percent. "No Function" was
the third-highest answer (15 percent).

Survey results also highlighted the importance of visibility and the ability to
define which resources people and IoT devices can access, with 63 percent of
respondents stating network access control is an important element of their
company’s overall security strategy and critical for reducing the reach of
inside exploits. Also cited as important was having detailed information about
applications (71 percent), endpoints (69 percent), cloud (64 percent), and
networks (63 percent), with more than half saying they currently deploy network
access control solutions for enabling visibility and control across both wired
and wireless networks.

"Partnering with the Ponemon Institute helps us to improve customer experiences
by better understanding security teams’ challenges and then arming them with
advanced solutions that enable quick identification and responses to an ever-changing threat landscape," said Larry Lunetta, vice president of security
solutions marketing for Aruba. "The insight gained from this study enables us to
continually improve our ability to provide an enterprise wired and wireless
network security framework with an integrated and more comprehensive approach
for gaining back visibility and control."

Ponemon Findings Parallel other Aruba Research

The Ponemon Institute study parallels findings from an Aruba global study Aruba
conducted in June 2018
of 7,000 employees across
15 countries. That study revealed that cybersecurity is a challenge for
employers, especially for those working in smart buildings.

 The report found that although employees reported higher levels of
cybersecurity awareness (52 percent think about security often or daily), they
also admitted to taking more risks with company data and devices, with 70
percent admitting to risky behaviors such as sharing passwords and devices.
 It also showed that a quarter (25 percent) of employees have connected to
potentially unsafe open Wi-Fi in the past twelve months, 20 percent said they
use the same password across multiple applications and accounts, and 17 percent
admitted to writing down passwords in order to remember them.


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