IT Complexity, Insider Threats, and an Abundance of Privileged Users Plague Cyber Readiness
Survey points to lack of cyber confidence and organizational maturity across public sector
HERNDON, Va. — SolarWinds announced the findings of its sixth annual Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey Report. This year’s survey includes responses from 400 IT operations and security decision-makers, including 200 federal, 100 state and local, and 100 education respondents. This is the first year the survey includes state, local, and education (SLED) respondents.
“Complexity is a big theme in this year’s survey,” said Brandon Shopp, vice president for product strategy at SolarWinds. “Led only by budget constraints, complexity of internal environments is one of the most significant high-level obstacles to maintaining or improving IT security, and respondents indicated it’s keeping them from easily segmenting users and adopting a zero-trust approach. Our data shows this complexity is getting worse, especially in federal environments.”