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ADC Security Survey
Global Key Findings
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• Applied Research (by telephone)
• September 2011
• 1,000 organizations (100/country)
• Senior IT management
• Respondents with role >50% in:• Network infrastructure (one fifth)
• Endpoints (one fifth)
• Applications (one fifth)
• Security (not compliance related) (one fifth)
• System administration (one fifth)
• APAC• Australia (2,000+ employees)
• Hong Kong (2,000+ employees)
• India (2,000+ employees)
• China (2,000+ employees)
• Japan (5,000+ employees)
• EMEA• Spain (2,000+ employees)
• France (2,000+ employees)
• Germany (2,000+ employees)
• UK (5,000+ employees)
• North America• United States (5,000+ employees)
Methodology
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Key Findings Summary
• Attacks Getting More Difficult to Defend
• Attacks Driving High Costs to Organizations
• Traditional Safeguards Falling Short
• IT Sees Role for ADCs for Security
• Adopting of ADCs for Security is Growing
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Attacks Getting More Difficult to Defend
• Most frequent are most difficult to defend AND highest impact:
The ‘cyber attack index’ is comprised of frequency, difficulty to protect against, and impact on organization, as reported by the respondents
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Attacks Driving High Costs to Organizations
• 100% of organizations saw losses from cyber attacks
• Typical cost: $682,000 in past 12 months
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Traditional Safeguards Falling Short
• 42% had a firewall fail due to network-layer DoS traffic load
• 36% had a firewall fail due to app-layer DoS traffic load
• 38% say safeguards understand traffic context less than ‘somewhat well’
• 36% say safeguards protect against complex, blended threats less than ‘somewhat well’
• 53% say network performance impact from safeguard ‘somewhat’ to ‘extremely challenging’
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IT Sees Role for ADCs for Security
• Only 1 in 12 say traditional safeguards suffice
• Half say ADCs can replace many or most traditional safeguards
• 92% see specific roles
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Adopting of ADCs for Security is Growing
• One third to one half are already using ADCs for security
• Nearly 100% are discussing
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Recommendations
• Build a unified framework
• Make sure your safeguards understand context
• Employ safeguards that are extensible and adaptable
• Lean on your peers
• Make sure your security infrastructure can scale
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