{"id":2037,"date":"2017-03-21T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T11:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/it\/it-security-detection-and-response-ever-more-crucial"},"modified":"2024-05-07T20:03:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:03:04","slug":"it-security-detection-and-response-ever-more-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/it\/it-security-detection-and-response-ever-more-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Security: Detection and Response ever more crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"
Market research and expert consultants Gartner have observed that users are shifting an ever growing portion of their IT security budgets to \u201cDetection and Response\u201d activities. Demand for pure prevention, the experts go on to say, is now shrinking.<\/span> Gartner is expecting companies to spend about $90 billion dollars on IT security across the globe this year, representing a rise of nearly 8 percent over 2016. By 2020, spending is projected to rise further to 113 billion dollars. Improving capabilities in detection and response is set to become a key priority for security buyers over that period, <\/span>according to the experts<\/span><\/a>.<\/span> \u201cThe shift to detection and response approaches spans people, process and technology elements and will drive a majority of\u00a0security market\u00a0growth over the next five years,\u201d explains Gartner analyst Sid Deshpande. This doesn\u2019t mean, of course, that prevention has suddenly lost its importance, nor that Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) will now stop trying to prevent security incidents. It is rather the recognition that prevention may be futile, unless it is backed up with detection and response capabilities. <\/span> A shortage of expertise and skills within enterprises is also boosting spending on security services. After decades focusing on purely preventive measures, many firms lack organizational knowledge on detection and response strategies in their security teams, Gartner\u2019s experts add. These highly specialized skills are scarce and consequently expensive, leading many companies to seek external support from security consultants, managed security service providers (MSSPs) and outsourced services. <\/span>