Making the Most of Your Industrial Cybersecurity Budget
The Claroty Team
/March 11th, 2022/
3 min read
Anyone who works in cybersecurity is well aware that we face a global cybersecurity talent shortage. The latest numbers put the workforce gap at 2.72 million in 2021. The challenge has been going on for years and the pain is real – 61% of IT security professionals indicate that their cybersecurity teams are understaffed. But what about opertional technology (OT) security teams?
For enterprises in critical infrastructure sectors, hiring OT security experts can be even more difficult, since IT has a decades-long head start in building expertise and, therefore, a larger talent pool. In fact, in Claroty's latest Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity report, 90% of respondents on a global basis say they are looking to hire more industrial cybersecurity professionals, and roughly the same number (88%) say it has been difficult to find enough candidates with the skills and experience required to properly manage an OT network's cybersecurity.
In Claroty's latest Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity report, more than 80 percent of survey respondents reported an increase in their organization's OT/ICS security budget.
If there's a silver lining to the rise in attacks on critical infrastructure organizations, it's that more than 80% of organizations report they have increased their OT/ICS security budgets. So, what is the most effective way to allocate that budget when talent is hard to find, and no organization wants to be associated with a headline-grabbing attack? With growing recognition that technology is the most scalable way to increase OT security capabilities, security professionals around the globe rank implementing new technology solutions as their top cybersecurity priority, and training existing personnel second.
A majority of survey respondents said they would like to see the implementation of new technologies be their organization's highest cybersecurity priority moving forward.
Claroty understands the complex and evolving threat landscape that industrial companies operate in. And we know that assets in industrial environments are hard to detect, hard to manage, and even harder to secure, particularly in our expanding universe of connected equipment and devices. So, we applied our expertise to deliver to companies across all critical infrastructure sectors what they need today to protect themselves.
Bridging the Industrial Cybersecurity Expertise Gap with Claroty
The Claroty Platform is an agentless solution that provides asset visibility to identify vulnerabilities and suspicious behavior across the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) which includes your OT environment, Industrial IoT devices (IIoT), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and enterprise IoT. This visibility provides the foundation for continuous threat monitoring to detect and track threats that cross the IT/OT boundary, virtual segmentation that uses policies to control communication, and risk and vulnerability management to pinpoint and mitigate risk to industrial assets. To restrict unnecessary connectivity and its inherent risk, Claroty xDome Secure Access enables strict control over users, devices, and sessions. All these capabilities are available in a single solution, so you can start minimizing risk and strengthening security in weeks, not months, and assure continued operations of critical processes.
Claroty's advanced Customer Care services help to address your second priority – training. Programs tailored to your environment, solution, and teams are specifically designed to help you build and maintain in-house expertise. People come and go, but our team is ready to ensure your team remains up to date on the latest threats you're facing and how to optimize the Claroty Platform to protect against them.
