Fear of attack is causing security professionals to shift focus away from risk management to technical security, according to Gartners 2013 Global Risk Management Survey. The more companies automate the measurement, remediation and reporting of the technology-related controls, the faster they can improve their security baseline and the lower the costs and resources required to manage security risk. The deployment of technical solutions could benefit organisations by reallocating employees time from processes automated by software, to more complex processes that require manual intervention.”]
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