State of Enterprise Secure Access Report Highlights Operational Deficiencies as Organizations Grapple with Hybrid IT Complexities and Zero Trust Controls

▤ Summary

The survey of large enterprises in the US, UK and DACH uncovers business risk and impact resulting in a pivot towards extending Zero Trust capabilities to enable productivity and stem exposures to multi-cloud resources, applications and sensitive data. According to the report, the shift in how organizations deliver Hybrid IT services to enable digital transformation must also take into consideration empowering a mobile workforce, supporting consumer and IoT devices in the workplace and meeting data privacy compliance obligations – all make for a challenging environment to ensure, monitor and audit access security. The survey revealed the top access threat mitigation deficiencies: When survey participants were asked what they perceive as their largest operational gaps for access security, the majority identified hybrid IT application availability; user, device and mobile discovery and exposures; weak device configuration compliance; and inconsistent or incomplete enforcement. It encompasses proving identity, device and security state before and during a transaction; applying a least privilege access closest to the entities, applications and data; and extending intelligence to allow policies to adapt to changing requirements and conditions. 91% of enterprises plan to increase secure access expenditure over the next 18 months; 30% anticipate an increase spend between 15% to 25% 44% of enterprises use data center in conjunction with public cloud, 30% in conjunction with private cloud, and 26% utilize all three delivery environments 46% of large enterprises prefer data center and private cloud; primarily preferred by financial services and U.K.-based companies 49% or more cited significant access incidents due to malware, unauthorized and vulnerable endpoint use and mobile and web app exposures - healthcare organizations experienced greater mobile and web app exposures 81% expressed gaps in hybrid IT application availability - financial services experienced the most business impact related to application availability 78% indicated need for greater visibility of users, endpoints and mobile devices; more evident in large enterprises and those in the DACH region 42% will focus on refining privileged user or service account-based access – a top priority in financial services and manufacturing 56% stated a project or pilot of Software Defined Perimeter technology over the next 18 months Over 38% of respondents outsource secure access capabilities to Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) with additional MSSP usage to grow 10% by 2021 The independent research for the report, which offers key insights into the current access security landscape and the maturity of defenses, was conducted by IDG Connect.

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