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8 Top Cybersecurity Challenges

and how leading companies are tackling them

"The days of facing cyber as a solo sport are over. It is now a team sport. A different way for operating as an industry has come about: Collective Defense. It allows companies to defend together."
— Ted Schlein,
Partner at Kleiner Perkins, in “Why cybersecurity isn’t a post-pandemic luxury”
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Discover how leading companies are working together in cyber defense.

A major mind shift in
cybersecurity is happening.

As existential threats present challenges that are much greater than any single company or organization can manage alone, the time is now to defend together… or get left behind. Working with leading companies across sectors, we have identified their shared cybersecurity pain points — and ways to solve them — through Collective Defense and advanced behavioral analytics within our Network Detection and Response solution.
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8 Top Cybersecurity Challenges
and how companies are tackling them

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Threat intelligence sharing isn’t fast enough

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Good cybersecurity talent
is too scarce

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My security stack is still missing critical threats

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Keeping up with the volume
of cyber threats is overwhelming

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My existing cybersecurity investments could be better

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Fighting off nation-state level threats is hard to do alone

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The supply chain is yet another threat vector to manage

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False positives continue to overwhelm our SOC team

A closer look at
3 of the top challenges…

Threat intelligence sharing isn’t fast enough
In traditional approaches to cyber defense, threat sharing does not happen instantaneously. Often valuable weeks go by after a threat is validated. Organizations collaborating in real time via Collective Defense can more effectively spot malicious activity and greatly reduce attacker dwell time to mitigate threats before damage occurs.
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Featured Customer Story

Keeping the lights on
with Collective Defense

Real-time threat sharing for sector-wide security and resilience
Type of company:
American gas and electric utility
(second largest U.S. utility co.)

Key challenge:
Protecting critical infrastructure
from sophisticated attacks

Result:
Collaborating across the energy
sector with Collective Defense
Good cybersecurity talent is too scarce
The cyber talent gap is a widespread challenge. The ratio of the volume of network traffic versus the number of cybersecurity specialists to analyze that traffic is severely lopsided. All organizations face a daily balancing act of staying steps ahead of hackers who constantly present risk to the global digital economy while the cyber talent gap grows wider every minute.
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Featured Customer Story

Closing the cyber talent gap
with Collective Defense

A scaled-up SOC with expert threat detection
and behavioral analytics

Type of company:
American gas and electric utility
(second largest U.S. utility co.)

Key challenge:
Keeping up with threats
with only a small SOC team
Result:
Multiplying the capabilities and
effectiveness of its SOC team
False positives continue to overwhelm our SOC team
The number of cyber attacks is going up, as is the pressure for your SOC analysts to keep pace. Along with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and SIEM tools, Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions complete Gartner’sSOC Visibility Triad for a broader view of the threat landscape. But how do you balance having greater visibility with getting bombarded by meaningless alerts?
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Featured Customer Story

Welcoming digital
transformation securely

A tool for vetted alerts of unknown threats
Type of company:
National Bank Holdings Corporation
operates a network of 90 banking centers
Key challenge:
Proactively taking action before
threats affect operations
Result:
Seeing qualified “unknown
unknown” threats
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Discover how leading companies are working together in cyber defense.