A Lot of Security Purchases Remain Shelfware
Just because a company is willing to invest a stack of money on security technologies doesn’t make it any more secure than a company that invests less. In fact, greater spending may actually be creating a false sense of security at many companies.
A new survey by Osterman Research on behalf of Trustwave shows that enterprises that invest in new security controls often end up underutilizing the technologies in which they just invested or not using them at all.
Osterman surveyed 172 small, midsized, and large enterprises from multiple industries and found this to be true with at least 30% of the respondents. In some companies, survey respondents said nearly 30% of all new security investments were not being used at all or were underutilized. One company surveyed said 60% of its security software was shelfware.