83% of organizations want the use of automation to manage security processes to greatly increase over the next 3 years. Growing number of cyber threats, time spent performing security changes manually, and cloud and SDN projects were the top motivations for automation. Only 15% of respondents reported that their security processes were highly automated. Over 52% had some automation in place but felt that it was not enough, and 33% said they had little to no automation. 50% believe that automation will help deal with IT skills shortage and reliance on experienced security engineers.”]