Almost a third of IT professionals ignore cyber security alerts

Just over 30 percent of IT professionals admit to sometimes ignoring security alerts because of high volumes of false positives. This is among the findings of a new survey from Skyhigh Networks conducted along with the Cloud Security Alliance which also reveals that 20 percent of companies have more than ten security tools that generate alerts. Incident response will be the most important new skill in the next five years according to 80.4 percent of respondents. In addition 62.1 percent of businesses have security concerns about public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, 40.5 percent believe that they can't secure… [Continue Reading]